Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904. As a young boy, he loved to write and draw. In 1921 he started at Dartmouth College where he began writing for the school's humor magazine. White writing in college he started signing his work as “Seuss”. After he graduated he added Dr. to his name. Sometimes he would sign his name Theo LeSieg (which is Geisel spelled backward!). He traveled to England to go to school at Oxford, where he met his wife.
In 1937 his first children’s book was published after it had been rejected 27 times! Over his lifetime he would publish over 60 books and receive many awards.
Dr. Seuss died on September 24, 1991, but he is remembered by children all over the world for his fun, funny, and wacky words. Every year on his March 2nd birthday he is remembered around the globe as children and adults alike celebrate literacy in his honor.
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Watch these fun, wacky, videos about Dr. Seuss.
Participate in this month's Dr. Seuss Reading Challenge. Finish the chart by the end of March and turn it into the office for a prize! Then design your own Seuss Sock!
St. Patrick’s Day—observed every March 17—is packed with parades, good luck charms, and all things green. Saint Patrick’s Day is a cultural and religious celebration that happens annually on 17 March to mark the death date of the most commonly recognized patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick. It is also a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Newfoundland, and Labrador, and Montserrat. The holiday was originally celebrated as St. Patrick’s Feast Day in 1000 AD in Ireland. The first official celebration in America was in 1762. The color green, pots of gold, shamrock, and leprechaun are often associated with the celebration.
What are leprechauns?
A leprechaun is a supernatural being in Irish folklore. They are usually depicted as little bearded men, wearing a coat and hat, who partake in mischief. Many stories say that leprechauns make shoes and protect a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If you catch one the stories say they have to give you their gold!
Rainbows and St. Patrick’s day
In Silesia, (part of Central Europe) legend says that angels put a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. In Irish folklore, it is the fairies that brought about the rainbow, and the leprechauns guard it with a piece of gold for every year of their life in the pot!
What is a Rainbow?
As the sunlight pours into the rain, each drop acts as a prism, refracting the light. The white sunlight is broken down into its component colors. The back of the raindrop reflects this series of colors, each at a different angle. You see different colors from different raindrops and it blends into a bow.
How are double rainbows made?
A double rainbow is made when the light that enters a raindrop refracts twice, going in from the air to the water and reflecting back out of the water into the air. Each refraction produces a rainbow. You can frequently see the bright first rainbow with a fainter reverse rainbow on the outside.
Once you know the basic science, you can start to understand why there are so many different crazy rainbows. The more the light bounces around, reflecting and refracting, the more different rainbows you can get.
There are even multiple rainbows. Rain, mist, reflections, and light bouncing through the water droplets create many different rainbows. One scientist, with a laser, created 200 at once.
Every year classes at CMP make awesome leprechaun traps! What is a leprechaun trap you ask? Leprechaun traps are crafts used, to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day. The traps are set up the night before St. Patrick's Day, and students can wake to see if their trap worked and they have caught a leprechaun. Remember many people believe if you catch a leprechaun they have to give you their gold!
Design a trap of your own and set it up at your house. Try to tempt the leprechaun with rainbow treats or sparkly gold! Check out these designs from other students!
What is the purpose of Women’s History Month? It was implemented because the narrative of women and the culture and history they have built in the United States is so often left out of what we teach. We recognize Women’s History Month to teach what women have done and to help inspire women to fulfill their true potential.
Women’s history in the U.S. has had many groundbreaking moments that will forever be remembered. Here are some of the most historic developments for women in the U.S.
Born a slave, and after she gained her freedom in 1827, Sojourner Truth became a well known anti-slavery speaker. Women’s rights became Truth’s life’s work. During the historic Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in 1851, Truth delivered her most famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech.
As women all over the country struggled to win the right to vote in the U.S., two women came together to fight even harder. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association and gained priority to securing women the right to vote. By the beginning of the 20th century, a number of states started following suit in giving women suffrage.
After a 72-year-long fight, the 19th Amendment finally passed. On August 18, 1920, women’s suffrage was ratified, granting women the right to vote in the U.S.
Despite much of the progress made regarding equal rights, the country still faced many inequalities. This was addressed through President John F. Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women. It was established in order to advise the President on the issues that still concerned the status of women such as discrimination and the fact that employers were legally able to pay women less than men for doing the same job. The Equal Pay Act aimed to abolish wage discrimination against women. It was signed on June 10, 1963, by John F. Kennedy.
Sandra Day O’Connor is nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the Supreme Court. At the time, only six percent of all federal judges were women. On September 25, 1981, O’ Connor was sworn in as the 102nd justice, making her the first woman justice in Supreme Court history.
Women not only were making history on Earth but also in space. Mission Specialist Sally Ride launched into space on the shuttle Challenger along with the rest of the NASA crew from Kennedy Space Center. Ride was the first American woman to be launched into space.
Kamala Harris is sworn in as the first woman, and first woman of color Vice president of the United States. "While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last," Harris said after getting elected in November.
Who invented basketball?
In December 1891, college teacher James Naismith was asked by his school to come up with a game that
is students could play indoors during the winter. He remembered a rock-tossing game he played as a child. How about a game
where players threw a ball at a target? The team that tossed the most balls
into the target would win.
Naismith called his new game “basketball” and wrote up 13 rules. Two peach baskets and a soccer ball were the equipment. Naismith put the baskets at each end of the gym, nailed 10 feet above the floor. The teams each had nine players. Naismith threw the ball in the air for the first tipoff. On December 21, 1891, the game of basketball was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.