Dr Seuss Week

 

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!



We had such a great week reading stories like One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears A Who, Fox in Socks and other funny, mixed up stories!

 

My favorite activity by far this week was our photo journals.  We talked about our silly fish and what we thought they would do if they visited our class!  Our students had to pose their fish in any place or activity in the room!  A lot of our students thought it was funny to make their fish eat goldfish!!...

 

 

Our crazy, mixed up sensory tub with paper fish cut outs, easter grass and colorful pom poms!

 

 

The Lorax Sensory Tub...complete with pink rice, truffula tree (straws and pom poms) and some tinsel and scoops for fun!

 

 

In science we observed the fish tank in the school age classroom. 

We drew fish in our journals and described them.

 

 

One of our new magnetic centers! 

 

 

On Fox in Socks day we wore crazy socks and matched up shoes that I had from Travis when he was a baby.  They thought the little shoes were neat and it reinforced matching and pairs!

 

 

We are working hard on our numbers, so this Cat in the Hat center was great for number matching.  They had to count the dots and put one pom pom on each numbered circle!

 

 

Our Cat in the Hat craft...we painted stripes on our cats, added our bow ties and added whiskers to our faces.  So silly and so cute :)

 

 

We read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and used blue water color to paint our fish tanks. 

 

 

 

These were our cats from the Cat in the Hat!

We made our cats, glued on whiskers, drew their faces and finger painted stripes on their hats. 

 

 

 

 This started out as a cloud sensory tub to represent the rainy day from Cat in the Hat but we added some of our crazy fish for some extra fun and the kids LOVED it!

 

 

WE EVEN MADE GREEN EGGS AND HAM!  The kids cracked, whisked and dyed the eggs green!  It was a fantastic science project that ended up as a math project as we then ate and graphed wether we liked/didn't like the eggs!  The kiddos were definitely a little put off by the look of the eggs but they realized that they tasted great! :) Yummy...

 

 

Another shoe photo...

 

We PAINTED with our shoes!!!

 

 

...they turned out so neat!

 

 

We even EXPLODED Ivory Soap in the microwave!  If you put Ivory Soap in the microwave, it expands.  We watched it in the microwave and then put it in the sensory tub and the kids cut it apart.  It was so neat to watch but is a little overwhelming with the smell and it dissolves (it was one of those I will never do again projects) but the kids did LOVE IT!

 

 

We finished up our week by having a Dr. Seuss' Read Across America Day!  We made Dr. Seuss Soup that I found from this site...Lory's Page and I linked it to my Pinterest page.

 

We combined with the preschool classroom and split up into three stories to read If I Ran the Zoo,

Yertle the Turtle and Horton Hears A Who! and do some fun activities!!!!!!

 

Check back for updates to Dinosaur Week!

 

Danielle