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| First grade teacher
Ginny Casaurang leads her students in an exercise to sort real and imaginary words into two lists as they await their readers from Burney High School’s Leadership Class. |
On one recent Friday, our Miss Casaurang,
to her first-grade students so
many words brang.
Now, some were quite “real” and some were quite “wacky,”
to stick to two lists with glue
very tacky.
But why would her kids wacky words need to know?
Some Burney High students would
very soon show!
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| Reading to Miss
Casaurang’s first-graders: Bailey Turner and Levi Perkins. |
They came at ten-thirty with books in their hand,
in Burney, Fall River, and
throughout the land.
An annual joy, since two decades ago,
on Dr. Seuss’ birthday his stories
would go
to all of our classrooms, each boy and each girl,
to brighten kids’ minds, to
broaden their world.
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| In Mrs. Spainhower’s
room, Fabiola Perez and Noah Bishop share their experiences with the third-grade class. |
The older ones did more than read them a book,
they asked for some questions,
they gave kids a look
at fun facts to know about good Dr. Seuss,
and where they would go when their
school turned them loose.
From High School, the Leadership students had come,
saying: “Here’s where you’ll go
when elementary’s done.”
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| Here, Hannah Pearson
has just finished reading to Mrs. Noack’s fourth-graders as Favian Jimenez prepares to field questions. |
No child appeared sad to hear “Six. Years. More!”
This “high school” described was
surely no bore!
Their elders spoke clear: “Core classes galore,”
yet promised “electives, clubs,
sports-teams, and more!”
So ‘twasn’t just books celebrated from yore,
‘twas examples of hope that their
lives hold in store.
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| Pulling double-duty,
Fabiola Perez and Noah Bishop found Mrs. Bower’s fifth-graders eager to ask very specifically about the high school experience they would enter within the next eighteen months. |
It may seem too brief, or too little, this day.
Will it change children’s lives?
It seems hard to say.
But on this day in March, the second, each year,
from children to children a
message rings clear:
That “We care enough to take time, to come read.
And we hope you’ll see, sometimes,
that’s all that you need.”
-Wm. Darius Myers
