Dr. Seuss was an excellent author who has inspired me, and many others, to be live-long readers. I remember learning to read with most of his classics, The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. He not only inspired me to read, but his fun style of using rhyme scheme to tell his stories invited me into the world of writing. As a child, I would spend hours in my journals or at my family computer creating my own stories similar to those I was reading.

Dr. Seuss has touched so many lives with his work, that our whole country celebrates him with Read Across America Week. We honored this amazing author at our school by celebrating literacy. We had contests between our homeroom classes to see who could read the most pages throughout the week, we played a Dr. Seuss trivia game each morning, we dressed up like many of his books all week. For example, we were wearing crazy socks for his classic Fox in Sox and T-shirts of places we have visited for Oh, The Places You'll Go.

During this week, each class also entered the Dr. Seuss door decorating contest. My very clever 4th graders came up with an idea that represented the book The Lorax. We used the famous furry mustache of the Lorax to display ways that each student can actively help save trees. We had ideas from using technology more, to not loosing their homework (so extra copies are not made!), to reusing all parts of our paper.  Our design did not earn us a prize, but we applied the theme of The Lorax's to our own lives and actions, a characteristic of a fantastic reader.