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Students celebrate with Seuss
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Some of the students at Hitchcock Woods Daycare held up books that were collected throughout the week to donate to Akron Children's Hospital.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Students in Abbey Loree's class put books in the buckets to donate to Akron Children's Hospital with Loree (left) and Pattie Welsh (right).
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Children at Hitchcock Woods Daycare sat on the reading carpet in their wacky outfits as they listened to the book "Wacky Wednesday" on March 2.
By ALEXIS BARTOLOMUCCI
Hitchcock Woods Learning Center celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday with a Dr. Seuss week Feb. 29 through March 4. They participated in Wacky Wednesday on March 2.
Children came to Hitchcock dressed in wacky clothes and crazy hairstyles to celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday. There were several activities throughout the day that the children participated in.
Abbey Loree, a toddler teacher at Hitchock, and Betty Cmil, an administrator, were the ones behind the idea of having a Dr. Seuss celebration during Literacy week. Each day there was a different celebration for the children.
“Usually we paint with our hands, but today we painted with our toes, being wacky. We colored underneath the table on a big sheet of paper, instead of on top,” said Loree.
The children also brought in old and new books to donate to Akron Children’s Hospital. Pattie Welsh, owner and director of Hitchcock, and Cmil are continuous supporters of Akron Children’s Hospital.
“We talked about how some children are in the hospital and the children wanted to donate to them, to give back to the community,” said Welsh.
Welsh hopes to continue doing different activities like this as a quarterly event. It is something the children enjoy participating in, as well as the faculty.