The Lower Elementary Faculty at Hemingford is showing their support for reading and Dr. Suess this week! (Click to enlarge)
Dr. Suess Week Focuses on Reading
Students and Staff Catch the Spirit
Editor
Hemingford Elementary School is focused on reading this week, especially at the lower elementary level. Students and staff have been spending time this week to recognize the contributions that author Dr. Suess made towards involving younger children in reading.
District 10 places a great emphasis on reading and writing, and the dress up days this week, a special trip to Alliance for a Dr. Suess movie, and activities in each class have involved the students at a high level
"Who" is Dr. Suess?
At the time of Theodor Seuss Geisel's death in 1991, his 46 children's books had sold more than 200 million copies, and his last, Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990), was still on the bestseller lists. His books, which he both illustrated and wrote, have been translated into twenty languages as well as Braille.
Wockets, Whos, and Grinches
Better known by his pen name, Dr. Seuss, he populated his odd and fanciful children's books with a hybrid bestiary of Wockets, Whos, Grinches, bunches of Hunches, Bar-ba-loots, red fish, blue fish, and a fox in socks. He once remarked in an interview, "If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up."
His stories march forward at an incantatory, rhythmic pace, and are full of tongue-twisters, word play, and highly inventive vocabulary. The American Heritage Dictionary in fact credits Dr. Seuss as the originator of the word nerd, which made its first appearance in his 1950 book, If I Ran the Zoo: "And then just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo a Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!"
Parents and grandparents are encouraged to continue to share their love of reading with their children and grandchildren by reading together each week.
Dr. Suess Week 2012
| Date | Subject | Posted by: |
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| 03/01/2012 | We love, love, love to read and Dr. Suess books are some of our favorite's and have been since birth thanks to the availability of the board books! I'm happy Hemingford Elementary has coordinated so many activities to celebrate reading this week! It sounds like your all having a fun time! Great Job Teachers and Staff! |
Shauna Meyring
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