Wendell Phillips Elementary

To read about Candy Carson's most recent trip to the Wendell Phillips Reading Room on November 15, 2011, click here!

Everybody’s going surfing…

Leave your cares at the door, and take a trip to the beach!  At the Wendell Phillips Elementary School Ben Carson Reading Room, wall murals of the beachside ocean, complete with palm trees and rolling waves, set the tone for relaxing with a book.   The creative designers of this sunny oasis even organized the large room into cozy sections, including:   an Excellent Estuary, the Respect Reef, a Bookworm Beach, the Scholarly Seaside, and a Courage Cove!   Each section sports white Adirondack chairs and a unique focus, from a full-sized beach umbrella to life-sized palm trees.  Inflatable sea creatures are not only suspended from the ceiling, but decorate the centralized U-shaped 1/2 bookcase, which is high enough to house a sea-load of books, but low enough for student readers to be encouraged by witnessing their peers’ enchantment with their own books from across the room!  Real life seashells of all shapes and sizes accent the bookcase as well.