Mathews Memorial Library visited Mathews Elementary School on Tuesday to celebrate Read Across America/Dr. Seuss Day. Students in MaryBeth Burroughs’ seventh grade class visited the elementary school wearing Cat in the Hat hats to read Dr. Seuss books to children in grades Pre-K through 3. This is the 15th year the library has purchased award-winning Theodor Geisel books for this program, provided them to the older children in advance, and donated them to the elementary classrooms. Before students visit the classes, they take the Reader’s Oath to “make reading my way / Of feeding my brain / What it needs every day.” Participating readers were, kneeling in top photo, from left, Chloe Jordan, Emily Cardenas-Flores, Emily Hernandez, Paige Morris, Eloise Leslie, Kaden Ormsby, Korra Swanson; standing, Jacob Lewis, Leeah Taylor, Aubrey Dean, Cora Congrove, Gracie Hellebrandt, Harper Tomcany, Autumn Segalini and Jessica Taylor. Below, Chloe Jordan reads to a class.

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