March 2nd kicked off Dr. Seuss weeks’ nationwide-encouraging kids to wear Dr. Seuss hats, wear green, or eat green eggs and ham. Dr. Seuss Day is a holiday that celebrates the birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, otherwise known by the pen name by which he authored children’s books: Dr. Seuss. During the 1990s, the National Education Association advocated for a day to celebrate reading all over the United States.

In 1998, it started Read Across America and decided to hold these read-a-thons on the same day as Dr. Seuss’s birthday.

On Dr. Seuss Day, it is customary to read a favorite book with your child. It could be one of Dr. Seuss’s books or it could be another children’s book author. The whole point of the day is to engage children in reading and to get them to read on a regular basis-www.holidayscalendar.com 

Dr. Seuss Week

In 1954, Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat using 236 words that were deemed important for first-graders to learn after Life Magazine had reported that children weren’t reading as much because they found most children’s books boring.

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Use your class activities time to have students sketch a Dr. Seuss book cover, write a poem in the style of Dr. Seuss, or makee a paper hat that they can wear home. Read Green Eggs and Ham and eat green cupcakes or green eggs and ham. Wear green or a crazy hat, or rather just read. Read for literacy and for the future of literacy awareness for your students. Read#Dr. Seuss#Dr. Seuss Birthday#Green Eggs and Ham#Cat in the Hat#Art and literacy#literacy!