Students from Canora Junior Elementary School were rewarded with an hour of summer fun during a Water Fun Day on June 24.
The event was one of the many rewards students were able to gain through the Accelerated Reader program at the school. Children get points for reading books that are part of the program, and are given rewards for reaching a certain number of points. The Water Fun Day was bestowed if students raised 4,369.3 points, and students raised 4,440.8 points in order to gain the reward.
The Canora Volunteer Fire Department helped make the day a success by bringing in a fire truck, as well as a tank of water. Students were allowed to fill water guns and other aquatic weaponry with the water from the tank, and as they sprayed each other, firefighters joined in the fun by spraying the children with a fire hose, a large sprinkler, and the vehicle-mounted water cannon on top of the truck.
Rod Steciuk, the school’s principal, congratulated students for doing so well with the reading program, and also thanked the Canora Volunteer Fire Department for being generous supporters of the program.
“We raise the points needed for Water Fun Day every year, and every year, the kids do enough to get it,” he said.
