Seuss Week this year was SO MUCH FUN! Each day was packed with different Seuss activities and the kids LOVED it! I love when we can get away from the "routine" and just have fun! (Educationally, of course!)
On Day 1, we read "Green Eggs and Ham" and "The Cat in the Hat".
We ate green eggs and ham and then wrote about what we thought!
For the most part, everyone liked them!
I got the idea for these cats {here}
Don't you just LOVE our Things???
These cute hats came from {here}.
And you can't read "The Cat and the Hat" without making Thing 1 & 2 headbands! This year I let my kinders cut out their own blue hair. :)
Day 2 was dedicated to "Horton Hatches the Egg" and "There's a Wocket in my Pocket".
I made sure that we had some sort of "special snack" every day. Cadbury Creme Eggs and marshmallow eggs were it on Day 2!
We also "hatched" out of our own eggs! The kinders wrote what they would say as they came out of their egg.
Then we let the creative juices flow and made our own wockets! I gave each student three pieces of construction paper, googly eyes, and a cotton ball and told them to create! At first, they didn't really know what to do, but they caught on pretty quickly. :) I thought that they turned out pretty darn cute!
On Day 3, we read "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" and "The Foot Book".
A BIG THANKS to Vickie Plant at Primary Press for the ideas and activities we used with "One Fish, Two Fish". You can check out her blog by clicking {here}.
The kids LOVED it! I also let them cut out their own fish instead of just giving them a template. Some turned out looking pretty interesting!
After we read "The Foot Book", we traced our shoe print and measured different things in the room.
Day 4 was a SNOW DAY (actually ice again). :(
Day 5 was a BUSY day! We managed to fit in most of the activities that I had planned for both Day 4 and 5.
We read "Mr. Brown Can Moo. Can You?" and talked about onomatopoeia.
Again, thank you Vickie!
We read "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" and made Cat in the Hat Magic Dough.
It was VERY MESSY but VERY FUN!
We ended our day/week by reading "Hop on Pop", eating POPcorn, drinking "pink ink", and watching Dr. Seuss movies on the big screen.
All in all, I think we had a pretty "SEUSS"tastical week!
And now for the "special goodbye".....
Our school (K-12) normally incorporates all kinds of different reading and writing activities throughout the week, but this year it had to take a backseat and all the school wide activities were cancelled. You see, on March 1st our school and community lost a very special man. Coach Doug Fuller, our junior high history teacher, suffered a heart attack and went home to be with the Lord. Our school and community spent the week mourning the loss of a man who impacted so many lives that it is unbelievable. I can only hope that one day I can make the kind of impact that he has made.
Fly high Coach Fuller! I WILL see you again!
