Lumberg Elementary Celebrates Read Across America

Edgewater Mayor Kris Teegardin reads with a 4th grade dual language classroom

Lumberg Elementary School in Edgewater joined schools across the country in celebrating Read Across America. Local leaders from the surrounding community came and read Dr. Suess books to Lumberg classrooms to encourage and motivate students to read.  The Read Across America event is held each year on March 2 which is Dr. Suess’ birthday.

This year Edgewater Mayor Kris Teegardin was one of the visitors to Lumberg. Before reading, Teegardin took questions from the 4th grade students. They asked him if he was famous, if he was going to be the next president and asked who he was going to vote for, though he didn’t give them an answer on the last question. Then Teegardin read them a Dr. Suess book in Spanish.

You can read more about Read Across America here. 

Joel Newton

Joel has been a resident of Edgewater, Colorado with his family since 2012. He is the Executive Director of local education nonprofit Edgewater Collective and Editor of the Edgewater Echo.