{"id":2424,"date":"2019-03-01T12:06:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2019-03-01T12:06:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T18:06:50","slug":"read-across-america-day-is-march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2424","title":{"rendered":"Read Across America Day is March 2!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/read-across-america-day.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2425\" src=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/read-across-america-day.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/read-across-america-day-200x140.png 200w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/read-across-america-day.png 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By: Lexie Dare<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Education Association started this holiday that is celebrated on Dr. Seuss\u2019 birthday each year to promote reading every day. The NEA offers a wide variety of resources for teachers and parents to make reading fun and more enjoyable for the kiddos. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The day was first celebrated on March 2, 1998 when members of the NEA came together to create a day to celebrate reading. Just as pep rallies are held to get kids excited about sports, an assembly can get children excited about reading. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here at <\/span>Mission Generation<b>, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we understand the importance of making reading fun and enjoyable for kids. Our goal is to <\/span>bring Jesus to the classroom and help students understand their true value<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">through our textbooks. We fully support Read Across America day, and encourage everyone to do something special with their kiddos to celebrate! <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is a link to some great resources for Read Across America day activities:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seussville.com\/Educators\/educatorReadAcrossAmerica.php\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.seussville.com\/Educators\/educatorReadAcrossAmerica.php<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is a link to the National Education Association\u2019s website explaining the history of Read Across America day:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea.org\/grants\/886.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.nea.org\/grants\/886.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Lexie Dare The National Education Association started this holiday that is celebrated on Dr. Seuss\u2019 birthday each year to promote reading every day. The NEA offers a wide variety of resources for teachers and parents to make reading fun and more enjoyable for the kiddos. &nbsp; The day was first celebrated on March 2,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}