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Mar
4

Announcing the Winner of our Dr. Seuss Giveaway

We are so excited to announce our two winners…our kids wanted to help in the process of picking the winners…so we wrote everyone’s names on a piece of cardstock and then put them in a basket for each of the kids to pick one…

Read Across America: Eligible Contestants for the Giveaway

Read Across America: Oh the Places You'll Go and names at random in the basket

Ainsleigh chose Tyra…congratulations Tyra, you will be receiving a copy of Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Read Across America: Ainsleigh Chooses Tyra

Now for our second winner, chosen by Nolan…congratulations Kathi, you will also be receiving a copy of Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

Read Across America: Nolan Chooses Kathi

Thank you everyone for sharing our blog this past week and celebrating Read Across America and Dr. Seuss’ birthday with us.

Click here to get your copy ofOh the Places You’ll Goon Amazon.com

Mar
2

Our Read Across America Day

Activities, adventures, events

Read Across America: Worksheet Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

We had such a fun day today. This morning, I took my daughter to a friend’s Kindergarten class to deliver a set of laminated Dr. Seuss bookmarks for each of her students to celebrate Read Across America week. We stayed for about an hour and read two books (There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! and Fox in Socks). We also worked on two rhyming worksheets and visited with all the kids in the class.

Our daughter was so excited about getting to go to "big kids" school she didn’t want to leave when it came time to go. The bookmarks thrilled the students and they had such a fun day. I think the poster all my teachers had in their rooms must be true “All I really need to know, I learned in Kindergarten”, because Kindergarten is so cool.

Read Across America: Posing with the teacher

Read Across America: Dr. Seuss Bookmarks and Cat in the Hat hats

When we got home, we read a few more books with our son so he could share in the awesomeness that is Dr. Seuss.

Read Across America: Dr. Seuss books

Read Across America: Dr. Seuss Books

Feb
25

Read Across America Week

early reading, events, learning

Hullabaloo Stories is celebrating Read Across America as well, with a week long set of posts that focus on children’s books, literacy strategies and some free printables. We will culminate the week with a fun give away.

This coming Friday (March 2, 2012) is Read Across America day, sponsored by the National Education Association This day not only celebrates reading but the birthday of Theodore S. Geisel (aka Dr. Suess). Across the country, thousands of schools, libraries, and community centers participate by bringing together kids, teens, and books, and you can too!

Check out tons of great activities, printables and lesson plan ideas here on Suessville

and for now…take a moment to read a book to your child…let us know in the comments below, what is your favorite book to read to your child?

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. -Dr. Seuss

Nov
1

Baby Loves Disco Booth

Activities, events

We had so much fun at the Baby Loves Disco Event in DC. We sponsored the temporary tattoos booth and enjoyed watching all the kiddos dance the day away…our daughter spent quite a bit of time out on the dance floor and our son was dancing away in my belly…it was great and we will definitely head out to the disco again if they are in a town near by.