By Michael Pineda
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Plainview Primary kicked off a celebration of Read Across America Week with a time-honored custom.
Principal Lisa Moore dressed up as her favourite Dr. Seuss character, The Cat within the Hat, and skim the guide to all her college students Monday morning. Monday additionally served as Hat Day, giving the girls and boys in kindergarten via second grade a possibility to precise themselves.
There will probably be totally different themes all through the week that vary from sporting inexperienced to pajama day.
“We really try to create kids that love to read,” Moore mentioned.
The main campus has been acknowledged as a Great Expectations Model School for 20 years in a row, an honor that might not be doable with no deal with studying.
“Reading is a key component of the elementary’s success as a Model School,” Moore mentioned. “In Great Expectations, they stress reading, writing, vocabulary, critical thinking and even speaking in complete sentences.”
There have been examples of vital pondering and growing concepts all through the morning because the totally different grades took turns streaming via the library for an interactive studying of The Cat within the Hat. Moore offered some background on Dr. Seuss, stressing that he refused to stop on his dream regardless of being repeatedly rejected by totally different publishers.
“I love that life lesson of perseverance that Dr. Seuss teaches us,” she mentioned. “Because he kept going. And guess what? After trying all those times, one day he walked into a publisher’s office, who looked at the book and said, ‘This is really different. It’s kind of catchy. I think, let’s try it.’ And the rest is history.”
Dr. Seuss would go on to turn out to be a world-famous kids’s writer, who’s honored annually throughout Read Across America Week. Seuss’ birthday was Saturday.
“If you learn to love to read, you will truly be a leader,” Moore mentioned. “You always will because if you learn to love to read, and be a reader, and be a reader that works hard. You will learn so many things and will be a leader in our community.”
