Read Across America Day: (excerpted from http://www.seussville.com/seussentennial/events2.html) A program of the National Education Association (NEA) now in its eigth year, NEA’s Read Across America Day–celebrated annually on Dr. Seuss’s birthday, March 2–generates enthusiasm for reading nationwide and focuses the country’s attention on how important it is to motivate children to read. Reading opens the doors [...]

Fat Tuesday: (excerpted from http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/fat_tuesday.asp) Fat Tuesday is Mardi Gras, the festival New Orleans, Louisiana, is famous for. “Gras” is French for fat and “Mardi” is French for Tuesday. The annual festivities start on January 6, the Twelfth Night Feast of the Epiphany, when the three kings are supposed to have visited the Christ Child, [...]