Read Across America
2009

On Monday, March 16, EVG students and teachers celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday--in our pajamas!  We day began with our third annual continual chain of readers, and throughout the day we listened to various speakers and readers who visited many classrooms. Jaime, our Edgewater town librarian, read special stories to grades 2 and 3. Police Officer Cristina Rae, an EVG graduate herself, read to the kindergarten classes. Dr. Blumstein treated the first graders to the classic story, The Little Engine That Could. When author, Wendy Mass, arrived to speak to the students in the upper grades, her first question concerned the pajamas and bathrobes flooding the audience. (She couldn't help but notice!)

Thank you to sixth-grade teacher, Mrs. Castaldo, and the Read-Across-America Committee, for all their hard work in planning this day-long school wide activity.