What do you get when you combine reading with glow in the dark neon? You get the annual Family Reading Night, held Tuesday evening at the L. B. Morris Elementary School in Jim Thorpe.

“We have a theme of glow and neon colors,” Kim Zoba, K-8 Math & Reading Coordinator at L.B. Morris, said.

The gym was darkened except for black lights that set off all the neon colors. Students received a map of the various stations and they would visit each to try the activity and learn something about reading.

“We have 10 stations around the gym where we target different reading skills,” Zoba explained. “We have a glowing hopscotch with letter sounds and synonyms and antonyms and things like that. We have a photo booth, we have face painting, we have a book swap down there that was organized by Olivia Bierman, a high school student. And we also have donations for the Carbon County Pet Shelter, organized by two high school students, Brinn and Cole Harwood.”

There was glow-in-the-dark bowling, Ping-Pong, and glow-in-the-dark Jenga games. There was also a bake sale, raffles, and Dimmick Memorial Library had a table set up.

Zoba also thanked the reading specialists for Title 1 at L.B. Morris; Kristy George and Megan Reilly-Oddy, for their help in the project.