Guest Readers Help Primary School Celebrate 'Read Across America Day'
The national event is held every year on March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss.
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Military veterans, police officers, city officials and a host of other community leaders went back to school on Friday.
The adults were invited to help Ocean City schools celebrate Read Across America Day, a National Education Association event designed to encourage children to read. The event is held every year on March 2, the birthday of chidren's author Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel).
Since reading in bed is a natural, Ocean City Primary School students wore pajamas to school as they gathered in groups to sit and listen to their guest readers.
Among the community volunteers were the Friends of the Ocean City Library, Mayor Jay Gillian, Superintendent of Schools Kathleen Taylor, Commander of American Legion Post 524 Bob Marzulli, Ocean City Police Patrolmen Joshua Clark and Michael Gray and a host of others.
Eleanor
11:49 am on Friday, March 2, 2012
Did they invite any of the south Jersey authors to read? - off the bat I know that
Danielle McPhail, Alice DiNizio, Karen Bostrom, Steve Leadly Keri Mikulski
Jane Rubino, Caitlin Rubino Bradway, Henry Bender and Nancy Viau are all book authors who live in south Jersey.
It comes down to what i posted in the article about promoting Ocean City and making it more of a 'draw'. Its very nice to have the mayor and some local people reading to the kids but why not go for real authors who might live close enough to do a school visit? Like i said in another post - where are the big ideas?