I'd also love to hear feedback about this topic. Thanks for asking!
I did a great one on Dr. Seuss in March. I"ll attach the documents I used. I found a lot of things on Proteacher and A-Z teacher stuff. There are also Scholastic author study books on Dr. Seuss, Mark Brown, Jan Brett, etc.
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
NEA's Read Across America
Celebrate Dr. Seuss..A-Z Teacher Stuff
Super Seuss Links
Story sharing time in our SILLY SOCKS! The kids wear silly socks one day and we call it Wacky Wednesday. We relax and read lots of Seuss stories including The Foot Book, and Fox In Socks.
Seuss Celebration Week
We spend the first week in March celebrating Dr. Seuss. A note is sent home the week before informing parents of the upcoming activities.
The following are some of the activities we like to do:
Mixed up Monday~We wear mixed up clothing (shirts on backwards, inside out, etc.)
Top hat Tuesday~We make the red and white striped hat and bow and focus on the books The Cat in the Hat and The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. Directions and picture below.
Wacky Wednesday~We wear Silly Socks and have a relaxed reading time in our socks with Seuss books. Picture below.
Theodore Thursday with Third Grade~We learn about the man Theodore Geisel and the third graders come to partner read Seuss stories with the kindergartners.
Funny Food Friday~We focus on the book "Green Eggs and Ham and make Green Eggs and Ham. Picture and directions below.
Wacky Wednesday
Funny Food Friday
Top Hat Tuesday
We mixed up scrambled eggs and added a few drops of green food coloring to the mixture before putting it on the griddle. I cut up pieces of ham and brushed the tops with a bit of green food coloring as well. The kids loved it! I used two dozen eggs for my class of 19. Serve with "Sam I Am Juice"....which is really lime kool-aid.
On Friday I also pick three of our favorite Seuss books for a favorite book graph. I photocopy the covers of the three books (Hop on Pop, The Cat In The Hat, and Green Eggs and Ham) I reduce the size to make picture cards for each student. They choose their favorite book, write their name on their card and add it to our graph.
By: Susan M. Anderson, second grade teacher
Students use And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss to write a story.
Objectives:
The students will listen to a story, then use the same format to write a class book.
Materials:
And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss
writing paper
Plan:
First, introduce the story And to Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street. After reading the first two pages, stop and discuss what Marco must usually do when he gets home. Talk about what it means when the dad says he usually turns "minnows into whales".
After reading the story, have the students think what they might see on their way home from school. What could look almost like that item in their imaginations?
Have each child write several sentences, ending with "And to think that I saw it all on ______ Street!" Bind into a class book.
I did this lesson with a group of second graders, many of whom were on a first grade level. I gave them the story frame below to copy and fill in the words. We used the name of the road that our school is on, since all students must travel on this road to get to our school. This could easily work for kindergarten also.
Here's the form I used:
As I was on my way home from school, I saw a ______________. It couldn't be a _________________. No, no. What I really saw was _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________. And to think that I saw it all on Jouett School Road!
The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins TOP
• Count to 500 by ones, twos, fives, and tens.
• Create math problems to see which combinations make 500.
• Bring a collection of hats to graph.
• Discuss hats worn by people in various occupations.
• Design and make your own hats.
• Using tally marks, count the number of: girls in your class, cars that go by the school, pencils in your class, etc.
The Foot Book TOP
• Paint with the kids' feet and create your own Foot Book.
• Count the number of feet in your class, then recount by 2s.
• Play Twister.
• Graph shoes according to characteristics.
• Pile shoes and have a race to see who can get their shoes on first and tied.
• Make a pattern with the kids' shoes.
CAT IN THE HAT DECORATIONS
Your color scheme can be red and white with little black, blue or yellow. Make a giant Stovepipe Hat with poster board, fabric or butcher paper
to hang on the front door. Set the mood with color and creativity.
Fill your party room or yard with paper cut-out circles in various sizes; bright red, yellow, blue, oranges and more. Hang them on the walls,
from the ceiling or attach to yard stakes and place in your yard or
walkway. Use a Cat in the Hat striped hat to create a fun and easy
table centerpiece. Place one or two open books standing on either side of the h
Seuss Centers..Hope these Help!
By Lori
I really like the meal idea. To make it higher level you could actually give the kids Seuss money and have them buy their meals!
Also...
1. For One Fish, Two Fish...you could have the children estimate Swedish fish,
or graph goldfish crackers.
2. For The Lorax have the children design posters for the environment.
3. For My Many Colored Days check out the poetry frames at
http://www.berkeleyprep.org/lower/fo...otion_poem.htm
Your children could do the color poem on the bottom, just put the frame at the
center!
4. For Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! have the children write a special song for your school like in the story. Since I assume you will have centers for groups they could perform them too!
5. For Oh! The Thinks You Can Think have the children invent wacky inventions and write about what they will do and draw them!
6. We did a quilt square for our favorite Seuss book and made a cute class quilt.
7. You can of course make Oobleck and have the children fill out a paper what it looks, feels, smells like etc.(It would be neat to let each group make a small batch)
8. You could tape record all sorts of sounds and put them at a listening center with a paper _____ hears a _______. (Horton hears a Who inspired!)
9. Have them design a map of a magical world like Candy Land, TV Land , etc., for Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Just finished planning for Seuss week. Our shcool is doing some dress up stuff. Rather than reading a story from the basal I am doing an Author study on Theodore Geisel and reading his books. also...
Monday - Reading
And to think we saw it on Mulberry Street. (Dr. Seuss' first published book) we will write our own version of the stroy and title it To Think We Saw It On _________ (our school road).
Tuesday - Hat day Reading the 500 Hats of Bartholemew (sp?) We will make a graph of the hats we wore. I didn't know about the Saturn dealership. There is not one in my city, but if I am out and about
this weekend I may check into it.
Wednesday - Read Wacky Wednesday We are dressing up. Also reading Green Eggs and HAm and we will make a class recipe book. Students will pick their fav. food and write ingredients and directions. I also have a recipe for Green Eggs and Ham that they will answer questions about.
Thursday - One Fish Two Fish. Wearing fishy clothing. Read The Lorax. Discuss character's point of view. Do activity from Mailbox magazine. (Can't remember exactly what it was but it had something to do with the different points of view.)
Friday - Read The Cat in the Hat and retell from the Cats point of view.
Monday: We will have a huge cake with 100 candles ( for Dr. Seuss' 100th bday) and will sing happy birthday to Dr. Seuss during breakfast (school wide). The Cat in the Hat (aka librarian) will be there as will Thing 1 and Thing 2. Students will be served the cake on their lunch trays. Also, the Cat in the Hat will read to all classes that day, one at a time.
Tuesday: Students will wear their Cat in the Hat hats (made in class on Mon.). Guest readers from the admin building and community will read a Dr. Seuss book to each class.
Wed: Pajama day-students can wear their pjs to school. Again, guest readers will read to each class.
Thur: Hat day
Fri: Breakfast in the cafeteria will be green eggs and ham. Also, red and white day (our school colors) These are just the school wide things that are planned. I haven't thought out exactly what I am doing in my classroom yet-can't get caught up, let alone a few steps ahead!!
! Elizabeth/AR
I have planned a special all day celebration for Tuesday - I teach K. First off, with some of my students having birthdays during times we are not in school, being away ect, we are going to have a class birthday celebration. Kids can make birthday crowns in the morning, I am going to bring in candles and cake for an afternoon snack, and I have a little birthday book gift for each of them. To Dr. Seuss day. I have invited children to bring in related items such as toys, books and t-shirts to share during our opening. I am covering Dr. Seuss books all month, but on this day I am featuring 2, Bartholomew and the Oobleck and Cat in the Hat. In the morning, I have invited parents in for an hour. I will read Bartholomew and the Oobleck and then parents and kids can make oobleck. We will see what we can do with oobleck, what it is. Kids can draw, parents can write. My journaling activity will be drawing and printing - What would you do if we had oobleck fall? I have invited parents in again for an hour in the afternoon and we will read the Cat in the Hat. I then have 3 centres planned - I have a very small class of six children. The first centre will be the kids and parents colouring a cat in the hat tic-tac-toe game. Second one is the colour dice game (I found all these on the Teaching is a work of heart site) I have laminated the paper portion and will use dry erase markers. The last centre will be matching upper and lower case alphabet letters. After the parents leave we will make a Cat in the Hat craft. I am so excited about all the cool things you can do with Dr. Seuss books. My class is excited as my husband is a chef and he is coming in to cook with them the following week when I feature the book Green Eggs and Ham - that is a fave book in my room. I would love to hear what others are doing - get some ideas for next year or for the last couple of books I have yet to plan for. Take care Carolyn in Paddle Prairie
What Would You Be
by: Dr. Seuss
If you'd never been born, well then what would you be?
you might be a fish? Or a toad in a tree!
You might be a doorknob! Or three baked potatoes!
You might be a bag of hard green tomatoes!
Or worse than all that - why, you might be a WASN'T.
A WASN'T has no fun at all. No, he doesn't.
A WASN'T just isn't. He just isn't present.
But you -- you ARE YOU! and now isn't that pleasant
Today you are you! That is truer than true!
There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Shout loud, "I am lucky to be what I am!
Thank goodness I'm not just a clam or a ham!
Or a dusty old jar of sour gooseberry jam!
I am what I am! That's a great thing to be.
If I say so myself, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!"
I have two feet, I have two feet.
I have ten toes.
I put on my shoes.
And off I go.
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