Tuesday, March 10, 2015

READ ACROSS AMERICA WEEK / Dr. Seuss @ GRACE

Carol Gehringer
Media Center

Last week GRACE Christian School celebrated the 111th anniversary of Dr. Seuss' birthday (on March 2, 2015).

We started off the week with a reader's theater salute to Dr. Seuss over our PA system, with the help of three 6th graders. Then all our 6th graders read a Dr. Seuss book to our three Kindergarten classes, as well as our TK classes -- this is a tradition we started a few years ago and both grades love doing it. We were excited to add the TK class to our tradition.


As usual, we posted photos of our teachers and staff holding one of their favorite Seuss books, in addition to Seuss banners and posters throughout the school.

We also observed Crazy Shoes & Socks Day on Tuesday in honor of Dr. Seuss -- and Miss Lisa made a tasty treat in the kitchen for the students to enjoy on Thursday.

We also held an election to see which of 6 Dr. Seuss titles were the favorites for GRACE students. Here are the results:

CLASSROOM
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas -- TK, K (McCool), 1 (Still), 1 (Yabani - tied), 2 (Green - tied), 2 (Goeking), 4 (Burnette - tied), 4 (Schaeffer), 4 (Sweeney), 5 (Barker), 5 (Robinson - tied)
  • Green Eggs and Ham -- K (Cheney), 2 (Green - tied), 2 (Chase), 3 (Hare), 3 (Hickman), 6 (Agar/Bell/Walters)
  • Horton Hears a Who -- K (Damato), 1 (Huntley), 1 (Yabani - tied), 3 (Shelton), 4 (Burnette - tied), 5 (Robinson - tied), 5 (Suarez)
GRADE-LEVEL
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas -- TK/K, 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th
  • Green Eggs and Ham - 3rd, 6th
TK-6 CAMPUS
  • Top Seuss book for entire TK-6th grade = HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS. It beat GREEN EGGS by 10 votes.
To close out the 2015 Seuss celebration, Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Gehringer also distributed Seuss prizes to all the classrooms for distribution to the TK-6th grade students.

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!!