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Dr. Seuss\u2019s March 2 birthday has become widely celebrated as \u201cRead Across America Day\u201d at schools across the nation \u2013 and Mancos joined in on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The day kicked off with a parade at 8:30 a.m., as students, staff, and even the Mancos schools\u2019 mascot made their way down Grand Avenue, donning red-and-white striped hats and escorted by fire engines.<\/p>\n
The celebration continued throughout the day, as Thing 1 \u2013 aka elementary Principal Cathy Epps \u2013 toured the school to read Dr. Seuss books to different classrooms. At 10 a.m., elementary and middle school students joined together in the school cafeteria for a video-and-live performance of the Seussian classic \u201cHorton Hears a Who\u201d by a group of middle school students.<\/p>\n
Reading took over the rest of the school too, with a book fair held in the elementary library, and signs promoting literacy and books posted on the walls. One alongside the library emphasized that a student who reads 20 minutes a day will be exposed to 1.8 million words per year, as opposed to a student who reads five minutes daily, exposed to 282,000 words a year, according to the Scholastic poster.<\/p>\n