We have loved studying Dr. Seuss these past few weeks. He is SO.MUCH.FUN!
We started by reading The Cat in the Hat (of course) and then made a class hat and wrote different -at words on each of the stripes to help us study that word family. Then we read The Cat in the Hat Comes Back. We created a Venn diagram comparing the two books.
This week we started with One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. We made our own fishbowl full of antonyms (words that are opposite). The kids were pretty creative when making up their words.
(up, down)
After reading The Lorax we created our own Truffula tree with the parts of the book (title, author, setting, characters, problem, solution and author's message.) To go with that book the kids wrote their own posters on how to help the Earth and then we hung them up around the school. Doing this sort of purposeful writing shows kids how writing is important and can be used throughout their lives.
For Dr. Seuss's birthday (March 2nd) the kids got to wear their very own Dr. Seuss name tags. For some of his books Dr. Seuss used his last name (Geisel) and spelled it backwards (LeSieg) so we wrote our first names backwards. This is one of the tags, I forgot to take a picture at the beginning of the day so it's a little beat up. :)
On his birthday we also made our own Dr. Seuss hats- complete with rhyming words on the white stripes!
To end the week we made green eggs and ham! The kids signed up for if they thought they would like them before we made them, and then again after we made them.
While we were waiting for our green eggs and ham to cook the kids had to recreate their own recipe with a sequencing chart- they are getting really good at ordering steps for our cooking.
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