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Thu 6 Mar, 2008 08:49 am
Parents and high-school students in big striped shirts and red-and-white hats swept through Pablo Roybal Elementary School on Monday like an invasion from Whoville, pouncing into classrooms and reading Dr. Seuss stories to any child who could sit still long enough to listen.
In Kimberly Clayton's third-grade class, Miranda Grasnick, 8, and Grachy Arballo, 9, sat on the floor with about 20 other kids listening to high-school students Christine Chacon and Jane Manzanares-Herrera read Yertle the Turtle.
"Sometimes (reading) is relaxing," Miranda said as the kids regrouped for their regular schooling.
Rhealyn Landgren saw the benefits of reading in a more practical light: "If you have a job, and sometimes you have to know what you're signing ?- in your older life."
Students from the high-school leadership class jointed with PTA parents in celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday (he would have been 104), and Read Across America Day sponsored by the National Education Association on or near Seuss' birthday every year.
The students and parents ?- usually one of each ?- read at least one Seuss book to all 700 kids in 34 classrooms at Pablo Elementary and the new intermediate school across the parking lot.
The late author Theodor Seuss Geisel, author of such famous children's books as The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who and Green Eggs and Ham, was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Mass. He died Sept. 24, 1991.
Oh my gosh it is Dr. Suess everything this week at Mo's school.
The other day we were reading Edward Gorey's "The Doubtful Guest" and Mo thought it was by Dr. Suess.
I think Gorey might have been by Dr. Suess' evil twin:
Quote:When they answered the bell on that wild winter night,
There was no one expected -- and no one in sight
Then they saw something standing on top of an urn,
Whose peculiar appearance gave them quite a turn.
All at once it leapt down and ran into the hall,
Where it chose to remain with its nose to the wall.
It was seemingly deaf to whatever they said,
So at last they stopped screaming, and went off to bed.
It joined them at breakfast and presently ate
All the syrup and toast and a part of a plate.
It wrenched off the horn from the new gramophone,
And could not be persuaded to leave it alone.
It betrayed a great liking for peering up flues,
And for peeling the soles of its white canvas shoes.
At times it would tear out whole chapters from books,
Or put roomfuls of pictures askew on their hooks.
Every sunday it brooded and lay on the floor,
Inconveniently close to the drawing-room door.
Now and then it would vanish for hours from the scene,
But alas, be discovered inside a tureen.
It was subject to fits of bewildering wrath,
During which it would hide all the towels from the bath.
In the night through the house it would aimlessly creep,
In spite of the fact of its being asleep.
It would carry off objects of which it grew fond,
And protect them by dropping them into the pond.
It came seventeen years ago -- and to this day
It has shown no intention of going away.
no one can read with their eyes shut!
PastaRoni wrote:no one can read with their eyes shut!
Well, the least I can say is that not everybody knows Braille...
Gorey is superior to Seuss . . .
To his clubfooted son said Lord Stipple
As he sipped his postprandial tipple
Your mother's behavior
Gave pain to our Savior
And that's why he's made you a cripple!
Some of us read in our dreams...
I can play freecell with my eyes shut. Sometimes, I cheat.
That's the second mention of freecell. I may be forced to check it out..
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