With the sun in the sky and cold weather at bay, students at J. J. Harris Elementary School were happy to play — and also to learn, at education stations organized in the charter school’s media center Monday in honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday and the National Education Association’s National Read Across America Day.
At a “The Cat in the Hat”-themed math station, Christopher Delgado, 9, sat with his friend Julio Lopez, also 9, and counted Goldfish crackers in different colors to determine how many bars needed to be colored on a table on his worksheet.
“Ten, ” Delgado said, after counting his yellow Goldfish a second time and picking up a yellow crayon to color in the corresponding bars. Once the tables were complete, Delgado and Lopez counted how many bars were in each color-coded section and wrote down the numbers before moving on to the next station.
Around them, classmates used black-and-white striped straws and tissue paper to create the trees depicted in Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax” and completed puzzles on iPads as images from popular Dr. Seuss stories scrolled across a smartboard in the back of the room.
Across the media center, third-grade students Joshua Johnson, Nayla Villafana and Allen Esquivel read through an adapted script of “The Cat in the Hat. ”
“I know some good games and I know some good tricks and you can play them with me if you wish, ” Esquivel read.
“Suddenly from the fish bowl came a loud cry, ” read a library staff anggota who acted as the narrator.
“No! No! Sam and Sally, make him go away. Your mother would not want him here while she is out all day! ” Johnson read.
All three students said they were familiar with “The Cat in the Hat” and many of Dr. Seuss’ other books, including “Fox in Socks, ” “Green Eggs and Ham, ” and “The Lorax. ” “I like that almost every story from Dr. Seuss has the cat from ‘The Cat in the Hat’ in it. (He’s) like an (icon) in every story, ” Johnson said. “I like ‘The Cat in the Hat’ because he does silly things, but then cleans up the (mess) he makes and makes up for his mistakes, ” he added.
Esquivel also enjoyed the education activities, he said.
“We did fractions to see which (hat from “The Cat in the Hat”) was bigger and if they were equal, ” Esquivel, who enjoys math, said as he held up a math worksheet.
Read Across America Day is a nationwide reading celebration that takes place annually on March 2 in honor of the birthday of American writer and cartoonist Theodore Seuss Geisel, who died in 1991 after decades of writing and illustrating children’s books under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss.
Throughout Athens and across the country Monday, thousands of schools, libraries and community centers participated by bringing together kids, teens and books to celebrate reading through activities and games.
J. J. Harris Elementary School media specialist Jennifer Barnhart said she was inspired to create Dr. Seuss-themed education stations in an effort to make Read Across America Day cross-curricular.
“The students have been really excited all day, ” Barnhart said. “Kids love anything that’s fun and engaging and Dr. Seuss books are definitely that. Dr. Seuss books are fun to read and hear out loud and they love the bright colors and pictures. His books really are timeless. ”
At a “The Cat in the Hat”-themed math station, Christopher Delgado, 9, sat with his friend Julio Lopez, also 9, and counted Goldfish crackers in different colors to determine how many bars needed to be colored on a table on his worksheet.
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“Ten, ” Delgado said, after counting his yellow Goldfish a second time and picking up a yellow crayon to color in the corresponding bars. Once the tables were complete, Delgado and Lopez counted how many bars were in each color-coded section and wrote down the numbers before moving on to the next station.
Around them, classmates used black-and-white striped straws and tissue paper to create the trees depicted in Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax” and completed puzzles on iPads as images from popular Dr. Seuss stories scrolled across a smartboard in the back of the room.
Across the media center, third-grade students Joshua Johnson, Nayla Villafana and Allen Esquivel read through an adapted script of “The Cat in the Hat. ”
“I know some good games and I know some good tricks and you can play them with me if you wish, ” Esquivel read.
“Suddenly from the fish bowl came a loud cry, ” read a library staff anggota who acted as the narrator.
“No! No! Sam and Sally, make him go away. Your mother would not want him here while she is out all day! ” Johnson read.
All three students said they were familiar with “The Cat in the Hat” and many of Dr. Seuss’ other books, including “Fox in Socks, ” “Green Eggs and Ham, ” and “The Lorax. ” “I like that almost every story from Dr. Seuss has the cat from ‘The Cat in the Hat’ in it. (He’s) like an (icon) in every story, ” Johnson said. “I like ‘The Cat in the Hat’ because he does silly things, but then cleans up the (mess) he makes and makes up for his mistakes, ” he added.
Esquivel also enjoyed the education activities, he said.
“We did fractions to see which (hat from “The Cat in the Hat”) was bigger and if they were equal, ” Esquivel, who enjoys math, said as he held up a math worksheet.
Read Across America Day is a nationwide reading celebration that takes place annually on March 2 in honor of the birthday of American writer and cartoonist Theodore Seuss Geisel, who died in 1991 after decades of writing and illustrating children’s books under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss.
Throughout Athens and across the country Monday, thousands of schools, libraries and community centers participated by bringing together kids, teens and books to celebrate reading through activities and games.
J. J. Harris Elementary School media specialist Jennifer Barnhart said she was inspired to create Dr. Seuss-themed education stations in an effort to make Read Across America Day cross-curricular.
“The students have been really excited all day, ” Barnhart said. “Kids love anything that’s fun and engaging and Dr. Seuss books are definitely that. Dr. Seuss books are fun to read and hear out loud and they love the bright colors and pictures. His books really are timeless. ”
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