Melanie Starks

I LOVE my office staff to the moon & back!! They are always all in!! Our Reading Day book float based on the book Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig was so much fun!!! #LoveMyStaff @EastAiken

Thank you SRNS for your continued support of @AikenPublicSch teachers! The Innovative Teaching Mini-Grant program is fantastic & truly makes a difference! #CommunityPartner

Congratulations to @mrs_walp, @StarksMelanie, Christi McWaters, & Rachel Harris for being awarded an SRNS Innovative Teaching Mini-Grant! I am so proud of these incredible ROCKSTAR teachers! I am so blessed to know them & truly the luckiest principal ever! #ProudPrincipal

Today ALL of our 3rd grade students were gifted a book from the Book Fair by PEP..Public Education Partners!! It was such an AWESOME gift and so appreciated! We love our community partners!! #ForTheLoveOfLiteracy #ReadingRocks @EastAiken

Our 4K-3rd grade students had a visit from author & illustrator David Biedrzycki. The author of Invasion of the Unicorns & SumoKitty, Biedrzycki shared how he creates books, finds ideas everywhere, & encouraged students to write and create their own stories as well! @EastAiken

Thank you @K_Kisner & Brittany Kisner for sharing your love of reading with our @EastAiken kids! Their video read aloud of With Lots Of Love was FANTASTIC! Thank you to the @KizFoundation for giving a book to each class to participate in @Jumpstartkids #ReadForTheRecord2023!

Our @EastAiken August Reading Celebration was all about rock painting because Reading Rocks! We celebrated over 300 students for meeting their August reading goal which is OUTSTANDING! Keep reading @EastAiken!! #ReadingRocks #ProudPrincipal

These Clemson girls are #ALLIN for the Tigers AND #ALLIN for #JustAChicken! @CoachPTweets & @reMovethechains Reading Workout was AWESOME! It was a ROCKIN’ GOOD day @EastAiken! #GoProInReading #ReadingRocks

My blood may bleed orange BUT I’m one of #JustAChicken’s biggest fans!! @CoachPTweets & @reMovethechains mission to improve literacy & the lives of our youth across our great state of SC is both inspirational & powerful! Thank you for a job well done! #ReadingWorkout @EastAiken

A HUGE THANK YOU to First Presbyterian Church of Aiken for donating food & snack items to support our @EastAiken students. We appreciate their support! #CommunityPartners #Blessed

So EXCITED to have @reMovethechains & @CoachPTweets return to @EastAiken this Wednesday for another #ReadingWorkout!! I’m not sure who’s more excited…the students or adults!! It’s going to be a ROCKIN’GOOD day! #GoProInReading

Today we celebrated our @EastAiken students who met their Summer Reading Challenge. Students got to make a tie dye shirt and received a new book! It was a grand way to end another ROCKIN’ GOOD week @EastAiken!! #ProudPrincipal

We are so THANKFUL for The Gifting Tree Foundation’s generosity!!! Our @EastAiken faculty/staff were so excited!! The Gifting Tree Foundation gives East Aiken School of the Arts teachers $100 gift cards postandcourier.com/aikenstandard/… via @aikenstandard

It’s time to Dive Into Summer Reading!! Today, each of our @EastAiken kiddos received a bag of 5 to 6 brand new books for summer reading!!! @KDBlankenship & I delivered summer reading bags to Ms. Shaw’s class & Mrs. Watford’s class! SO MUCH FUN!!! #KeepReadingEA

So proud of our @EastAiken Battle of the Books team!!! They represented @EastAiken well!! #ReadingIsOutOfThisWorld #GoTeamGo

Tonight’s @EastAiken Student Art Show was AMAZING!! Our students’ art work always blows me away!! I’m so proud of our very talented students and their amazing teacher, Mrs. Smith! #YoungArtistAtWork #ProudPrincipal

What else does SPARK Day have to offer?? An @EastAiken Story Walk of course!! #CreativityAndMovement #NewAndImprovedFieldDay

Book Character Day and the teachers went all our!! It is hard to pick my favorite!! So very blessed to have these teachers @EastAiken!! They are ALL IN for kids!!

Thank you @ejeffcoat for reading to our @EastAiken 4th graders today for Real Men Read! You were awesome!

Thank you @tomyoungsc for reading to our @EastAiken 3rd graders today for Real Men Read! Mrs. Shuford’s class loved having you read to them! #ReadAcrossAmericaWeek #RealMen Read