Dr. Seuss Week

It's here, it's here, it's FINALLY here!!! Who doesn't love celebrating the all time favorite, Dr. Seuss??? At SPES, we love Dr. Seuss. Not only did we dig into all of his books, but we make a week long celebration out of Dr. Seuss' birthday.

Each day of the week is dedicated to one of Dr. Seuss' books. After the book of the day is determined, we focus our clothing, lesson plans, and snacks around that book. This is how I set our week up:

Monday - Fox in Socks

Tuesday - Green Eggs and Ham

Wednesday - Wacky Wednesday

Thursday - The Cat in the Hat

Friday - If I Ran the Zoo

To get the word out about our dress up days, I created a little flyer that you can download in my Teachers Pay Teachers store for FREE. Our school sent this home with every student, we posted on our ClassDojo's, and Facebook.

Please feel free to incorporate this schedule into your Dr. Seuss celebration week. I do offer free changes to the schedule upon request. Just email me at hmoss@mctns.net with what you would like changed, and I will get it back to you within 24 hours.

On Monday, we had a student from our high school come read Fox in Socks on our morning news. Beware!! This is a tongue-twister!! I stumbled around with words when it reading it to my kinders. They and I got a good laugh out of it! :) After we read the book, each student received a cut-out of a sock. Students colored the template to match their own socks that they wore. When everyone finished their coloring, we focused on our graph of the day. What better name to call that graph than... Did You Wear Silly Socks? Yes...very fitting. hehe

Not only did we graph our silly socks on our class graph, but the kinders also recorded the information on their individual graphs.

Throughout the graphing, we would talk about possible addition sentences. For example: We have 5 people who did wear silly socks, and 3 three people who did not wear silly socks. How many people have we asked about their socks so far?

You could also discuss greater and less, missing addends, subtraction, etc. The options are limitless!

Once we finished our graphing, we created a fox puppet. Our special fox puppet helped us with rhyming words! Did I mention that we LOVE rhyming words??

One of my favorite activities for Fox in Socks is the exploration of opposites. Up & down, big & little, hot & cold....you get the point:) Even though we didn't go in depth with opposites this year, I plan on incorporating it in next year.

On to Math----> It must have been fate that had us start discussing and exploring measurement this week. After 3 long weeks of addition, the kinders and I deserved a break. Measurement is always a fun and engaging topic to teach. I opened up our lesson with comparing 3 different shoes (my shoe and 2 other students' shoes).

I can't believe I didn't get any photos during our math lesson!!!

Luckily, I feel like you get the point of our measurement lesson:) We discussed longer, shorter, longest, shortest, tallest, taller, etc. Students traced their own feet, and found others in the room with longer and shorter feet than their own. Even though we didn't dive into measuring our feet with cubes, I totally recommend it. They kiddos will love it! We will be doing this sometime this week.

Last but not least, we wrote in our daily journals. Our writing prompt: My socks are _________. As always, I had some wonderful responses and creative drawings of socks.

On Tuesday, we read Green Eggs and Ham. My day started off in our kitchen...making green eggs, of course!! Who better to taste test than the hubby:)

I will continue updating this post throughout the week. Please come back to read more! :)