National Read Across America Day

Thanks to our intelligent and creative buddy class in Florida, we now know about National Read Across America Day! According to the National Education Association's website,  "NEA's Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of beloved children's author Dr. Seuss." 

Our buddy class had a REALLY fun idea to make this day come to life! Not only did they want to encourage reading across America, they wanted to LITERALLY read across America! To do this, we Skyped with Mrs. Richardson's class this morning which allowed us to hear the story, "I Ain't Gonna Paint No More" by Karen Beaumont all the way in Texas from Florida! We loved hearing the story and seeing all of the colorful pictures. Thanks for reading to us today, Mrs. Richardson's class! :)

Source: http://www.nea.org/grants/read-across-background.html