What a fun day! Today we started our week long celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday and Read across America. We read all kinds of books by Dr. Seuss, had a birthday party for him, and had a guest reader (my super awesome cousin Lizzy!) It was great. That's were the pictures come from today. Our special book shelf with all Dr. Seuss books, me and Lizzy being the super cool people that we are, the awesome crazy gift she got me from Okinawa that is the cutest thing ever, and then there is a picture I took of the buttercups that opened up today. I was excited about how cool the picture looks.

What I love about me #13.

OOooooh!!! Lucky #13, I better make this one a good one. I love my love for sharing the joy of reading. I love to read to my students and to any other children for that matter. There is just something amazing about the way that they get so into a short little picture book. Books are a great way to get their imaginations working as they try to really picture what is happening in their tiny little minds. They get so excited when you read it with an excited expression as they wait and anticipate what is going to happen next in the story. They love to predict what is about to happen and get so excited when they were right. I wish more people read to children, whether they belong to them or not. It is the best feeling in the world! I love a good book that lets you act silly and use different voices or intonations as you read. It makes it more interesting to you and to the kids. The more passionate you are about reading the more passionate the kids become. It's also really cute to see how they will mimick you in the way that you read. I was even told by a parent this year that their child won't let them read to them before bed any more because the child wants to read it because their parents don't read it the way I would. I love to give the kids a chance to read to the class and they get up there and read it the same way I would using similar manurisms. It is just so cute. It shows me that I am making some kind of impression on them, and I think it is a pretty positive one if it gets them to open their mind and read a book that inspires them in some way. It's just the greatest feeling in the world. Try it!