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‘Cat in the Hat’ Visits Jamestown Elementary
In celebration of reading and Dr. Seuss’ birthday, kindergarten through third-grade students at Jamestown Elementary School in the Hazelwood School District welcomed a special visitor, the Cat in the Hat.
Nearly 230 students participated in an assembly in association with National Education Association’s Read Across America. The celebration began with a reader’s theatre production of “Green Eggs and Ham” featuring a team of first and third-grade readers. As the narrators read the classic tale, students held up props as key words were read aloud – box and fox, house and mouse, and boat and goat.
Next, the audience played a trivia game, “Who Wants to be a Seussionaire?” Working in teams, students answered multiple-choice questions from books such as “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish,” “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and “The Cat in the Hat” by responding with one, two or three fingers in the air.
After the game, the Cat in the Hat made his appearance, waving to a chorus of cheers. Chris Guinther, president of the Missouri National Education Association, introduced the students to the Cat in the Hat. She encouraged the students to read, to do their best to become good readers, and to ask for help from adults as they learn to read. She also asked the students to take a reading pledge. Together, the children repeated the pledge after Guinther as the Cat in the Hat looked on.
Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss.
