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Date: 3/9/2022
HUNTINGTON – Read Across America Day was celebrated at Littleville and Chester elementary schools on March 2, the birthday of Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss.
Every year at Gateway, members of the high school’s National Honor Society (NHS) read to elementary school students in their classrooms for Read Across America Day, a day to promote reading for children.
NHS seniors Ariana Marchese and Rebecca Boszko read “The Cat in the Hat” and “The Cat in the Hat Comes Back” to kindergarten and second grade classes. After reading to Virginia Danyow’s kindergarten class, Marchese, Danyow and kindergartner Blake Yarmesky posed for a photo wearing their Cat in the Hat hats.
Landon Richard read “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish,” and Joe Federici read “Green Eggs and Ham,” along with Leo Balboni, to Karen Smith’s kindergarten class, where students came dressed as their favorite characters.
Everybody thought “One Fish” was funny. “This was so much funny,” one student declared. They all agreed they would not eat green eggs and ham.
Second grade teacher Linda Hyjek, who was dressed as a mouse, pointed out all of the “Cindy Lous” in her class, referring to a character from “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” She said that Marchese, who will be graduating this year from the Chapter 74 Early Childhood and Care vocational program at Gateway Regional High School, has been coming to her class all year as part of her course work.
Hyjek also said she loves the way that the second graders update Dr. Seuss for themselves. When Thing One and Thing Two appeared during this reading, one of her students said the Cat in the Hat must have found a portal.
Hyjek told the second graders that after lunch they would be writing about why they should, or should not, want the Cat in the Hat to visit their homes.