Barbara Webster, Glen City, McKevett, Olivelands and Bedell schools each had guest readers, reading from Dr. Seuss books to kindergartners and 1st graders. Blanchard School had a door decorating contest in honor of Read Across America, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association. One part of the project is National Read Across America Day, an observance in the United States held on the school day closest to the birthday of Dr. Seuss.
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Top Left: Glen City School students celebrated Dr. Seuss week. One of the days students were asked to wear crazy hats to school. Assistant Principal Ana Rodriguez gathered some of the students together from the playground. Top Right: Police Chief reads Dr. Seuss stories to preschoolers Police Chief Steve McLean helped the Santa Paula Early Learning Center celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss by reading “Green Eggs and Ham” to the children. The Learning Center is operated by the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation. March 2 was the 110th birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss). Geisel published 46 children’s books over his lifetime. They included the bestselling Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hatches the Egg and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. He died in 1991. Bottom: Thing 1 (Nicole Gonzalez, Bedell Librarian) and the Cat in the Hat (Rick Zavadil, Counselor) talk to Kimberly Biviano-Gonzalez from the Transitional Kindergarten Class at Bedell School. |
The birthday of Dr. Seuss
marked at local schools
March 18, 2015
Santa Paula News
Several Santa Paula area schools recently celebrated the birthday of Dr. Seuss.
March 2 was the 110th birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss). Geisel published 46 children’s books over his lifetime. They included the bestselling Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hatches the Egg and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. He died in 1991.
His works were adapted for 11 television specials, a Broadway musical, four feature films and four television series. He won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 for Horton Hatches the Egg and again in 1961 for And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.
Over his career Geisel worked as an illustrator, a political cartoonist and, in World War II he worked in an animation department
