This year we chose to put an emphasis on reading so we selected the Dr. Seuss

books to teach our character building lessons. Each six weeks we address a specific

trait: citizenship, caring, respect, responsibility, fairness or trustworthiness. Then

we selected at least 6 Dr. Seuss stories, which demonstrate the respective category.

Every morning with our closed circuit morning news program, which relates daily

announcements and shows how the daily lunch menu fits on the Food Guide

Pyramid, students are shown five minutes of one of the Dr. Seuss stories. For those

stories not available on video-tape, several teachers volunteered time to read the

stories aloud while the pictures in the book were filmed.

The first six weeks we celebrated citizenship with:

The Lorax, Horton Hears a Who, The Zax, The Sneetches, Yertle the Turtle, The Big Brag, and The Kings Stilts.

The second six weeks we featured caring with:

Thidwick The Big Hearted Moose, Gertrude Mc Fuzz, Ponoffel Pock and His Magic Piano, Grinch Night, Horton Hatches the Egg, Daisy Head Maizy, and Happy Birthday To You.

The third six week we addressed respect with:

Cat In The Hat, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Green Eggs and Ham, What Was I Scared Of, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Gertrude Mc Fuzz, and McElligot’s Pool.

We began the second semester with responsibility utilizing the stories:

I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew, Hunches in Bunches, Bartholomew and the

Oobleck, The Butter Battle Book, Hoober-Bloob Highway, The Glunk That Got

Thunk and Hooray for Diffendoofer Day.

Our fifth six weeks will feature fairness with:

King Looie Katz, The 5000 Fingers of Dr., If I Ran The Circus, Thidwick The Big-Hearted Moose, Yertle the Turtle, and The Sneetches.

The final six weeks will deal with trustworthiness and will utilize the stories:

And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today, Cat in the

Hat, The Cat Comes Back, Horton Hatches the Egg and Oh, The Places You’ll Go.

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