{"id":4262,"date":"2013-03-07T15:10:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=4262"},"modified":"2013-03-07T15:10:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:10:39","slug":"hats-off-to-dr-seuss-at-charter-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=4262","title":{"rendered":"Hats off to Dr. Seuss at charter school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Students to celebrate author&#8217;s birthday &#8211; and anniversary of chapeau-centered classic<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1.Graystone-Logo.png.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4267\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"1.Graystone Logo.png\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1.Graystone-Logo.png-300x131.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1.Graystone-Logo.png-300x131.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1.Graystone-Logo.png.jpeg 761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Students at Graystone Academy Charter School will take their hats off to Dr. Seuss on Friday during a two-fold, literary extravaganza.<\/p>\n<p>The school will celebrate \u201cRead Across America,\u201d a national program commemorating the beloved author\u2019s March 2 birthday, and they will observe the 75<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of one of his classics, <em>The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Activities will include a parade in which students model their own Seuss-inspired, crazy hats, and a school-wide assembly. Students will perform other Dr. Seuss titles, recite the \u201cRead Across America\u201d pledge, and watch a video made by second- and third-graders of <em>The Foot Book<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In addition, guest reader Pam Depte will visit classrooms, younger students will be paired with older \u201creading buddies,\u201d and students will watch <em>The Lorax<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRead Across America\u201d dates back to 1997 when a reading task force at the National Education Association (NEA) suggested \u201ca day to celebrate reading,\u201d according to the NEA web site. They reasoned that an activity proven to boost student achievement in school certainly deserved widespread festivities. And since one of children\u2019s favorite authors is Dr. Seuss, the event occurs each year on or near his birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students to celebrate author&#8217;s birthday &#8211; and anniversary of chapeau-centered classic Students at Graystone Academy Charter School will take their hats off to Dr. Seuss on Friday during a two-fold, literary extravaganza. The school will celebrate \u201cRead Across America,\u201d a national program commemorating the beloved author\u2019s March 2 birthday, and they will observe the 75th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,101],"tags":[1655,1685,1684,1606],"class_list":["post-4262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-schools","tag-read-across-america","tag-dr-seuss","tag-graystone-academy-charter-school","tag-national-education-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}