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I am looking for a lesson involving the Dr. Seuss book The Shape of
Me and Other Stuff>

I made a matching game to go kind of with this book. I cut out
simple pictures (cat, hat, fish, etc) from black paper and on the
other cards, I put the word for each picture. I tried to use only
one picture for each beginning sound so they could match using that
if they couldn't figure out the whole word. (I teach kindergarten)
Linda

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!!LOL! Elizabeth/AR 

Our children will be taking standardized test all week
so most of our activites will be on fri when we will
hold a door decorating contest to see which class can
guess which book is represented by each door. WE will
also have cookies on the court on Fri while we sing
Happy Birthday to Dr. Seuss. We'll have a trivia
contest from questions the children compose.
I also found other activities online for the children
to do in their room after testing.

l reszetucha

The Pre-K, K, 1st & 2nd grade teachers all dress up as the Cat-in-the-
Hat. The Pre-K and K aide dress as Thing One & Thing Two. All
morning long, the upper grades come to read to us. The teachers all
bring their Seuss books, the library lends us their Seuss books, the
kids bring their books, we go to several libraries and get all the
Seuss books we can so there are enough to go around.

Since the Cat-in-the-Hat movie has come out, the teachers have all
been collecting Seuss stuff that has been very abundant. We have
stickers, games, stuffed critters, books, etc. We will each have a
large display in our classrooms and will make learning centers out of
the various items.

For snack we serve green eggs and ham. Since this is the good
doctor's 100th we will be having birthday cake and singing.

Also, our school library has a featured author each month with
teachers at various grade levels doing a bulletin board. K is doing
the board this month.

During the afternoon we will have a Seuss movie marathon: Cat-in-the-
Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, The Lorax, The Grich, etc.

As gifts for our upper grade reading buddies, we will give them
bookmarks made at the www.dltk_kids.com site. Last year we made cat-
in-the-hat pins out of puzzle pieces for our reading buddies, but
each year this gets to be a bigger event as more grades want to
participate.

verk7@yahoo.com

Geez! I almost forgot one of the most fun activities. My teaching
partner holds a photo contest. We ask for pictures of the kids
reading a Seuss book in the wackiest place they can think of. We
make a bulletin board display of these pictures and have the upper
grade teachers vote on the them. The winners from each class get a
copy of a Seuss book.

Our Pre-K & K graduation theme this year is Dr. Seuss so we will be
using these pictures in our slide show also at the end of the year.

Valerie

Hi! I am new to the list.  My name is Suzanne and I am a K-3 music specialist. I am organizing an assembly for Dr. Seuss's 100th birthday.  We are having two high school students read "Green Eggs and Ham,"  Every time the words green eggs and ham are read, the students sing:   "Green Eggs and Ham (clap, clap), Green Eggs and Ham (clap, clap), Strike up the band for Green Eggs and Ham."   tune is: do, re,re mi.  mi, fa, fa sol sol, la, la, sol, fa mi, re, re do.

Something I do for math is do a venn diagram of red fish blue fish.  I make some red fish and some blue fish, and then I make some fish that are red and blue.  Then the students have to sort them into a venn diagram.

Andrea

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

1. For One Fish, Two Fish...you could have the children estimate Swedish fish, or graph goldfish crackers. They could also graph a baggie full.

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/fourth/writing/emotion_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!) You could also go on a listening walk and record sounds you hear. For a fun game write down objects and animals that make sounds and play name that sound!

9. Have them design a map of a magical world like Candy Land, TV Land , etc., for Oh, the Places You'll Go!

10. Suess Cafe. Make some "seuss" money for the children to plan a meal of your wacky menu. From Green Eggs and ham to Foot Book Stew you can make this one higher level by increasing the prices, adding tax or making change!

11. Horton Hatches a WHAT??? Have the children invent a wacky animal that is parts of three different animals Design an egg that lifts open to show their new creature. Maybe a Cheeturtguin!

12. For Mr. Brown can Moo..play the what can you do too game. You do not have to use balloons to pop, since that can be scary. Have each child write down a talent they have can be anything safe to do in school. (children in the past have written their names backwards, etc.) They write it on a slip of paper. Put it inside a balloon and blow it up. Mix up the balloons and have children choose one to pop. (They can just choose a slip if you want no balloons) They pop it and guess who can do the talent then the person shows the class!

For a cute seuss snack make one tray red and one tray blue Jell-O jigglers or rice krispie treats cut into fish shapes with a cutter!

Lori

I saw something today I thought was a cute idea for younger children. Have a Book-nic! Spread out picnic blankets on the floor where the children can relax and enjoy cookies and punch as you read Dr. Seuss books to them. Everyone else keeps saying to cook green eggs and ham. That might be fun. I made book marks for the students (4th grade) but we are doing FCAT testing this week so not too much going on for Dr. Seuss' birthday. Hope this helps! Sherri  

Hi everyone! I just finished a page, Top Ten Dr Seuss activities. Let me know what you think! http://tech.dcboces.org/~oneill/drseusspage Happy Teaching! Joan

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