Teachers promote reading with help from Dr. Seuss
BY JOSH DAVIDSON
Staff Writer
MIDDLETOWN — The 100th birthday of Dr. Seuss was honored recently by the Middletown Township Education Association
Members of the teachers’ union held an early celebration of the famous children’s book author’s March 2 birthday, also known as Read Across America Day, at the Feb. 24 Board of Education meeting.
The association’s second vice president, Deborah Mrykalo, dressed as Dr. Seuss and read a poem at the meeting.
Mrykalo appeared at the meeting as a member of the union’s Pride Committee, which focuses on promoting pride in the school community.
Mrykalo said her children look forward to her reading to them, which she does every day.
"They get upset [if I don’t] because they really enjoy being read to," she said.
Union members gave out bookmarks to parents at the meeting and had them pledge to read to their children on Dr. Seuss’ birthday.
The bookmarks were scheduled to be given to students yesterday, Seuss’ actual birthday. Sending the bookmarks home tells parents that the union values reading, said Pat Pellegrini, a Pride Committee co-chair and member of the child study team at Harmony and Navesink elementary schools.
Read Across America Day, sponsored by the National Education Association, individuals, schools and businesses around the country, is a day dedicated to finding ways to get children enthusiastic about reading.