Unveiling of The Letter People Mural

On Sunday, March 2 from 2-4pm we will be having an unveiling of the Letter People Mural in honor of READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY which celebrates the birthday of Theodor Geisel aka Dr. Seuss. the 2 wall murals depict all 26 letter people in Letter People land. The mural is a picturesque walk along Main Street and was created by Jaime Walton, a 19 year veteran at the Tot Spot, LLC. Ms. Jaime started the work on the mural in August 2007. During the unveiling, various members of the Tot Spot, LLC Staff will take turns reading from the READ-TO-ME Letter People Library. Each book tells something about the life of each Letter Person in Letter People Land. The books also have storylines that emphasize character development. Each book has a different character trait that is illustrated through the life of the Letter Person – honesty, fairness,kindness, etc. using the Letter People stories also honors Dr. Seuss' tradition of writing stories with lots of alliteration and rhyming. The letter People hold to a tradition of a phonics based program which enables children to develop strategies to move from phonemes, the sounds that letters make, to graphemes, which are the written representations of those sounds. According to the experts, a child's first words come from playing with sounds by repeating, gurgling, and babbling sounds. The repetition of key sounds moves a child to associate sounds with their respective graphemes. As children concentrate on words, they begin with their ability to hear and mimic the sounds of the letters, then they move on to use writing to create the graphemes that represent those sounds.

The unveiling is open to the public with a special invitation to any former Tot Spot, LLC participants and their families who want to stroll down memory Lane and reminisce about the LETTER PEOPLE and LETTER PEOPLE LAND.

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