Legislator Reads Across Rocky Hill On Friday

ROCKY HILL, CT — State Sen. Matt Lesser (D-Middletown) on Friday read to students at

West Hill Elementary School and Myrtle H Stevens Elementary School as part of Read Across
America Week.

According to the National Education Association, Read Across America Week is an annual reading motivation and awareness program which calls for children to celebrate reading. The week ends with the birthday of Dr. Seuss on March 2.

Lesser read to West Hill Elementary students about arctic animals and then made the drive
up the road to Myrtle H Stevens Elementary to read to Sandra Amoroso’s class. He read about
extreme weather patterns as students looked on and later asked questions.

This was also part of the each school's "One Book, One Community," project. In previous years,
they have highlighted authors. This is the sixth year of the project and the book they are
highlighted was "The Magic School Bus."

Students and teachers, some dressed as Mrs. Frizzle from "The Magic School bus," paraded through the hallway and stopped to take a picture with Lesser.

"It was an honor to read to such intelligent, inquisitive groups of young people," Lesser said. "Reading is not only educational, but also therapeutic. The Rocky Hill School District is doing an excellent job establishing a love of literature for the town’s youth."

Lesser received a copy of "The Magic School Bus," signed by the students he read to at West Hill Elementary School.

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