We read ALOT of Dr. Seuss books and spent a lot of time focusing on rhyming words. We worked on changing letters to create new words in the -at Word Family and the -am Word Family. We also did a Cat in the Hat beginning sounds match.
The first book we read was The Cat in the Hat. During small groups students made Thing 1, Cat in the Hat, and practiced AB patterns with stripes and hats from teachpreschool.org. Students responded to the story by writing about if they would let Cat in the Hat come in their house and what would happen if Thing 1 and Thing 2 came to their house.
Another story we read was Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? We talked about different sound words and recorded them on a chart.
Of course we read The Lorax! The kids love this story! We made a story map about the story.
Next came The Foot Book. We talked about opposites and rhyming words. During small groups students wrote pairs of opposites on pairs of feet and traced their feet and put them in order from smallest to largest.
We also enjoyed a visit from Cat in the Hat himself (herself?! ha!)
Another book we read was Oh, The Place's You'll Go. We discussed different places we would like to visit and created a chart together about different modes of transportation to get there. During small groups students responded to the story by painting where they would like to go and creating a hot air balloon.
Of course we had green eggs and ham for lunch one day! We also had green milk and kids kept asking for it the rest of the week! Here is a graphing activity we during afterwards:
On Friday we had lots of fun reading Bartholomew and the Oobleck and making our own Oobleck! What a great science experiment activity!
We ended our week with a graphing activity about our favorite Dr. Seuss book. So many to choose from to put on our graph!
I hope you enjoyed Dr. Seuss week as much as I did! This is one of my favorite themes to teach!
I am linking up at obSEUSSED: Seuss Link Collection.
Until next time!
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