MONROE - Members of the Green County Home and Community Education organization enjoyed sharing a morning of reading, laughter and learning with Leslie Bundy's Head Start/4K students Tuesday at Abraham Lincoln Elementary School. As part of the Wisconsin Bookworms project, volunteers read to local Head Start/4K students once a month throughout the school year, engaging the children by reading a book and doing fun activities that expand on what they've read.

This month, the featured book was "The Shape of Things" written by Dayle Ann Dodds and illustrated by Julie Lacome. The children learned how different shapes can be seen all around them, indoors and outdoors, and how some very familiar objects can be made by combining different shapes together. This month's reading leader, Mary Ann Krebs, led the children in an activity of looking around the classroom to spot shapes. Even the rug the children were sitting on was full of familiar, colorful shapes to identify.

Wisconsin Bookworms is a collaboration and outreach effort of UW-Extension Family Living Programs, Wisconsin Association for Home and Community Education and Wisconsin Public Television. It is designed to put free books into the hands of children who otherwise may not have access to books.

For more information about the Wisconsin Bookworms program, contact the Green County UW-Extension office at 328-9440 or green.uwex.edu.