Happy birthday Dr. Seuss!!!

WOW!  What a busy week!!!  I spent the entire week last week getting my students ready for our Seussville Musical that we had on Friday! It was fabulous!!  I love Dr. Seuss Reading Day and I look forward to it every year!!!  My sweet babies had so much fun getting our classroom and our hallway ready for Whoville! My class helped me decide the theme of our bulletin board...Green eggs and Ham!!!! 

 

 We listed many, varied, and unusual things (A Talents Unlimited Activity) that are green and illustrated our favorite one!  

 

 I find it hard to fit everything on a bulletin board so I gladly take up the entire wall outside of my classroom!

 

To begin our green eggs and ham theme, we had to make green eggs and ham to taste!!!  I brought in an electric skillet and had the students help me make them!  My students thought that they would hate the eggs but guess what....they LOVED them!!!

 

And don't forget to graph it!!

 

 

There are so many amazing things to do for Dr. Seuss that you could spend months on his stories!!!!  I picked a few of my favorites for the week:

 

The Cat in the Hat

 

The Lorax

 

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

 

We ended the week with a Seussical Snack!!!  We had Truffula Tree Tops (colored marshmallows), Green Eggs (mint M&Ms), Barbaloots (Chocolate teddy grahams), Zoo Animals (animal crackers), Cat in the Hat Stripes (gummy savers), and One Fish, Two Fish (colored gold fish)!!! 

 

 

 

No Dr. Seuss Reading Day would be complete without special treats for my babies!!!  Target's Dollar Spot has some great Dr. Seuss goodies for $1!!!!

 

SOOOO to conclude this awesome week, the entire school came to school dressed as Whoville children and characters! They were greeted at the door by our principal dressed as The Grinch! It was awesome!!! To keep with my theme, I was Sam-I-Am!

 

and of course my teaching bestie!

 

So Reading Day has come and gone!!!!  What are some fun activities you do for Reading Day with Dr. Seuss???

 

Taking a look back .....Dr. Seuss Day!!!!

The last half of the school year was an absolute BLUR! I am going to try to flashback at all of the exciting activities that kept us BUSY BUSY BUSY the last quarter of school!

For Dr. Seuss's birthday, our school transforms into Whoville! It's the most exciting time of the year! Each grade level hallway was assigned a book to bring to life! Our hall was responsible for "If I Ran the Zoo." It is an absolute amazing book-- the animals, the places, the colors!!!!

Here is our interpretation:

My bulletin board! The students were given construction paper, pom-pom balls, google eyes, glue, and scissors. They could make any kind of animal they wanted! The students then gave the animals a rhyming name. They loved it!

 

The students then wrote about what they would do if they ran the zoo.  They loved being a zookeeper!!!  

Each room was designed from the book to look like a zoo cage (our doors had bars on them...I forgot to take pics! oops!)

 

In true Seuss-fashion, we lined the hall with polka dots, balloons, and tissue paper pom-pom ball trees!!!  

 

I dressed up as Gerald McGrew! 

 

My neighbor teacher and I with our Gerald McGrew drawing!!!

 Our yummy treats!!!!

 

What are some fun activities that your school participates in for Dr. Seuss's Birthday?

 

-Nicole

Getting ready for Dr. Seuss Day!!!

We are busy, busy, busy getting ready for Dr. Seuss Day at school!!  Last year at my school, each teacher dressed up and we decorated our hallway with Dr. Seuss crafts! It was super cute!!!  Here are a few pictures from last year...

My partner teacher and I did our classroom displays on the story If I Ran the Zoo.

I gave my students a stack of construction paper and allowed them to use their creativitiy to come up with their own animal for their zoo.  Next, they wrote sentences describing their animal!  They LOVED being able to do this activity without ANY limitations!!!

We did a Yertle the Turtle exhibit in our zoo!

We also had an exhibit for Horton Hears a Who! 

There was an exhibit for One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.

We made Cat in the Hat windsocks to hang from the ceiling of our classroom.

I dressed up as Sam I Am from Green Eggs and Ham. The entire school looked adorable!!!

 

 

This year, each hallway at my school (we only have 4 halls because we are a K-2 school) has their own book. The school looks fantastic!!!  I will post pics on Friday of our final project!!!

Happy birthday Dr. Seuss!!!!!

Nicole