March 31, 2011
St. John’s University’s Staten Island campus will host a "Dr.
Seuss Pajama Party" on Friday, April 1 at 7 p.m. for 36 Pre-K and
Kindergarten aged children and their parents.
Parents will attend sessions facilitated by St. John’s
University literacy specialists on ways to encourage children to
read at home. The children will participate in Dr. Seuss
storytelling with members of the Alpha Beta Gamma chapter of the
Kappa Delta Pi Education Honor Society. Parents and children will
read together to end the evening.
All children will receive two Dr. Seuss books to take home and
read with their families.
For media inquiries, please contact Elizabeth Reilly, Associate
Director of Media Relations at St. John’s, at (718) 990-5789, or by
e-mail to reillye@stjohns.edu.