Tuesday, March 23rd                  10:30-11:00  Paris Elementary 1481 South Main, Paris     987-2166
                                          11:45-1:15   Bourbon Central  376 Bethlehem Rd., Paris  987-2195
                                           contact: Mollie Jameson    This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it              509-1915
 
      The schools will be visited by Tim Farley and "Little Black" a live pony to meet the 1st grade students and to deliver to them a hardback copy of Little Black, A Pony by Walter Farley.
 
 
      Wednesday, March 24th   2:15-3:15   UKHealthcare Kentucky Children's Hospital   Lexington 
                                                             contact: Mary Margaret Colliver    This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it      361-1887
           
    Kentucky Children's Hospital will be visited by Tim Farley and "Little Black" a live pony to meet the children and to deliver to them a hardback copy books by Walter Farley. 

Mollie Jameson:  Kentucky Director 859 509-1915 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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The Black Stallion Literacy Foundation is an innovative partnership of educators, businesses, volunteers, education foundations, and staff members focused on promoting literacy through the winning combination of live horses and books by Walter Farley. The program is based on the classic books of Walter Farley and the natural connection between children and horses.

The project was conceived in 1999 by Farley’s son, Tim (www.theblackstallion.com) and Mark Miller, owner of Arabian Nights Dinner Attraction (www.arabian-nights.com) in Kissimmee, Florida. Friends for more than 30 years, Tim and Mark share a common interest in encouraging children to read. Tim knows the influence his father’s books have had on millions of children, and Mark grew up (and remains) in the company of horses – a winning combination for a program designed to motivate children to read. The Black Stallion Literacy Foundation (BSLF) began serving children in 2000. Since then, more than 400,000 children across the United States have participated in our reading programs.

BSLF is presently composed of both school-based and community programs, in which activities are developed around Walter Farley’s classic books. School-based programs consist of curriculum-based literacy programs for 1st and 4th-5th grades. Community programs are similarly curriculum-based literacy programs, but are turnkey embedded programs for after-school and summer camp programs. All of the BSLF literacy programs are age appropriate and aligned with both state and national standards in reading and other curriculum areas.

SCHOOL PROGRAMS

The Black Stallion Literacy Foundation
offers two school-based literacy programs
for elementary aged children:

FIRST GRADE: 6 & 7 Year Olds

FOURTH-FIFTH GRADE: 9 to 11 Year Olds

The program introduces children in first grade to reading their very own hardcover book, Little Black, A Pony. Each child receives two hardcover Walter Farley books to start or add to their own personal library. The program also provides an exciting opportunity for children to learn about and interact with live horses and the children even have an opportunity to read to their favorite horse!

The fourth-fifth grade program continues the legacy of reading by providing all the children with their own copy of The Black Stallion, a universally recognized children’s classic. Children are also introduced to the critically acclaimed 1979 movie of the same name. The program concludes with the Black Stallion Literacy Show, featuring the Black Stallion himself! This highly popular and effective program can be used with classes in fourth grade or first semester of fifth grade.