Belvoir readers enthrall Occoquan students

Retired Army Col. Cardell Hunter reads the book ‘The Flag’ to students at Occoquan Elementary School in Woodbridge on Nov. 10.

By: Julia LeDoux | Inside NoVA
Published: November 17, 2009

A group of soldiers and civilians who normally spend their workdays on Fort Belvoir ensuring the country’s safety spent some time away from the installation on Tuesday, reading to students at Occoquan Elementary School.
“What’s really cool is the readers are active duty or retired military, and its right before Veterans Day,” said Occoquan Elementary School Librarian Christine Brooks.
This is the first time that readers from Belvoir have visited Occoquan Elementary, Brooks continued.
The school’s students, in kindergarten through fifth grade, have been studying about Veterans Day.
Volunteer readers retired Army Col. Cardell Hunter and Cynthia Johnson, whose husband is Maj. David Johnson, had the students enthralled as they read to them throughout the day.
“I witnessed readers read to my kids over the years,” said Hunter, who said he was extremely honored to participate in the program.
Hunter read to a group of fifth graders from a rocking chair in the school’s media center. The students sat on the floor, listening attentively as Hunter read The Flag. Johnson helped Hunter out, by standing at attention and waving a flag when it was appropriate as the story was read.
Johnson read several books, including “Mr. Lincoln’s Way,” by Patricia Vacco, “Pinduli” by Janelle Cannon, and “Boxes for Katje,” to the school’s second graders.
“With second graders, the younger you get, you have to say things like ’woosh,’ sound effects,” she laughed.

Belvoir readers enthrall Occoquan students

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