March 2 is a very special day – it’s a day to celebrate reading and the birth of Dr. Seuss! National Read Across America Day focuses on reading, especially for our youngest students.

The tradition here in Pine Bush includes many reading activities for students. However, one of the most anticipated events is when the kindergarten students from Pine Bush Elementary take a walk over to Pine Bush High School where they are the guests for a very special celebration.

Students in Leeann Noonan’s Family and Consumer Science and Human Development classes volunteered to make snacks, create games and to read to the young learners, all with the Dr. Seuss theme.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This year snacks included cookies that looked like green eggs (no ham) and multi-color goldfish crackers. The students played memory games with each other and the high school volunteers, colored pictures of the Cat in the Hat and connected the dots on a Horton Hears a Who photo. They certainly enjoyed the fun snacks!

 

The kindergartners excitedly gathered in the library to listen as PBHS students Ivana Johnson and Emily Forma, dressed as the Cat in the Hat, read the classic story to them. Ivana and Emily had the children involved in the story, asking them questions of what they would do if the mischievous Cat in the Hat came knocking on their door!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read Across America Day is a yearly observance started by the NEA (National Education Association) in 1998 originally to commemorate the March 2 birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss and promote reading. Dr. Seuss was an American artist, book publisher, animator, poet, a political cartoonist as well as an author. He has written more than 60 children’s books.

Let’s get going and read, read, read, read!!