Oakdale spotlights Dr. Seuss

We should have posted BEFORE Bella Vista, because now we look like we went to no effort at all compared to them.  However, we love Dr. Seuss, too.  Here is our little tribute to him.

Bella Vista Celebrates Dr. Seuss's Birthday

 Dr Seuss

1904-1991

Hooray! This week we are celebrating Dr. Seuss's Birthday (which is on Sunday March 2). Did you know that a publisher made a bet with Dr. Seuss that he could not write a book with 50 words or less.  Well he did, "Green Eggs and Ham".   Here are some more fun facts on Dr. Seuss:
- His real name is Theodor Seuss Geisel.
- He graduated from Dartmouth College.
- He wanted to be a cartoonist.
- He ended up working in advertising for 30 years
- 1937 he published his first book "And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street".
- 1957 he published "The Cat in the Hat", his 13th book.
- 1984 he was the winner of the pulitzer prize.
- He has an Acadamy Award, 3 Emmy Awards, 3 Grammy Awards, and 3 Caldecott Honors.
- He wrote and illustrated 44 books all of which are still in print today.
- His books are in print in over 12 languages.

 We would like to thank our wonderful Principal, Mr. Prescott, for the fun Dr. Seuss pencils, erasers, bookmarks, and crayons.

 Dr. Seuss characters have taken over the Meet the Author wall in our school.

 Truffula trees have sprouted up all over our library.

We have had so much fun this week celebrating this wonderful author.
Information taken from www.seussville.com

Oakdale

We don't know if you are familiar with 'Library Mouse' by Daniel Kirk.  It is a story of a mouse who lives in a library and writes little books and leaves them for the children to read.  We set up a display with blank books we made out of plain, white paper cut into fourths and stapled on the left.  The children can take them home to create and return them for sharing.  Watch for part 2 of this post as the books start to come in.