Grade Five Alive!

Last week on March 2, it would have been DR. SEUSS’s 103rd birthday. At school we celebrated  NEA’s Read Across America week. We got to go to the library and do fun activities like Throw the Cat in the Hat and Pin the Green Eggs on the Ham.  All of the classes went at different times to play games and work on puzzles.

Mrs. M, our school librarian, planned fun contests like “guess how many red fish are are in the fish bowl.” There were two winners and they each got a big bag of Swedish fish for a prize. She also asked us to pick our favorite Dr. Seuss book and then she picked some names from the box. Then she had a special treat for the students who won. 

Dr. Seuss wrote millions of good books like The Cat In The Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Hooray For Diffendoofer Day!, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut, Green Eggs And Ham. My favorite is Oh, The  Places You’ll Go. What I like about Dr. Seuss books is they are funny and he uses silly words. Dr. Seuss wrote books that make reading fun for children and adults. And, everyone knows that the more you read, the smarter you’ll get!

~Daniela

On February 25, a hilarious storyteller named Len Cabral came to our school and shared some of his humorous stories with students and staff. It was very entertaining. Some of his stories involved huge, scary characters as well as his brothers and some friends he had when he was a kid.

He also told us that anyone can be a storyteller and that we should ask our relatives and parents to tell us stories from their childhoods.

We were all amused by Mr. Cabral’s enthusiastic storytelling and hope he will come again next year to share his stories with the fourth and fifth graders at our school.

~ Elaine S.