Read Across America

March 2nd is Dr. Seuss's birthday. Using this date as a catalyst the National Education Association encourages schools to celebrate reading on that day through a program called Read Across America. This year our school participated in a district-wide event. One class from four schools were each broadcast live sequentially for about five minutes apiece doing a presentation based on a Dr. Seuss book of choice. I selected Mr. Ford's first grade class for our presenters. As the decision to do this program was made only one week prior to March 2nd, we had little time to pull together a show. My hat goes off though to those wonderful first grade students, who knew the importance of following directions and when to be quiet. We had a few fourth grade helpers also, past students of Mr. Ford. Everyone did a fantastic job! One fish, two fish, read fish, blue fish . . . I have visions now of construction paper fish being raised by little hands in sync to the story and of Mr. Ford lying on a red, yellow and blue sofa wearing a red and white stripped hat being covered by stuffed animals who came to call on Ned. . .