Read Across America and Dr. Seuss Day is one of my all time favorite weeks of the school year, second only to Spring Break!! We started the week off with Green Eggs and Ham day with everyone dressing in green. The cafeteria staff even got in on the fun and served green eggs and ham for breakfast. We also had hat day, mustache day, and college shirt day. One day was all focused on ONE FISH, TWO FISH, RED FISH, BLUE FISH. Again, the cafeteria staff got in on the fun and served colored goldfish to the students, and gifted a copy of the book to the library.For fun, we held a Battle of the Books, Dr. Seuss style. We started off with 16 books, 8 classics and 8 beginner books. The first 3 rounds were held during Read Across America week, but we are now down to 2 books! THE LORAX and GREEN EGGS AND HAM. Tomorrow is the last day to vote, so we will soon find out the winner.
The book fair was a huge hit, our students always get SUPER excited about the book fair. We reached our goal and sold over 1,300 books! We also held a coin drive to buy books for the teachers' classroom libraries. I made it into a contest between the houses and told students that the house that raised the most money would have the library decorated in their colors. AMABLE was the winner, and today I purchased a ton of green decorations to go in the library tomorrow.
I was amazed at the amount of money our students and parents donated to our coin drive. It was enough for me to purchase every teacher 3 or more books for the classroom library.
Literacy night was a big success! Families came out and enjoyed numerous activities, including story time with Cat in the Hat and Thing 1 and Thing 2. There was a bookmark making station, as well as a hat creation station. QR codes with Seuss books were scattered around the building, and a DR. Seuss trivia.
