Dr. Seuss Week - Fox in Socks

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Fox in Socks  is a great book to teach alliteration (repeating of a the beginning sound of two or more neighboring words).  When you have several words with the same sound at the beginning of the word you have a tongue twisters such as "she sells seashells by the seashore".  After reading this book trying saying some tongue twisters or create your own.

Dr. Seuss Week - The Cat in the Hat

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Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!! 

Celebrate today with Read Across America and pledge to spend time reading with your child. 

Why not read The Cat in the Hat to celebrate? This classic children's story is a great book to read with your kids to practice rhyming words.

After you are done reading the book you can do this fun rhyming activity.

YOU NEED:

Legal size envelope

Red construction paper

Red & Black marker or crayon

Print pictures here, here, here, here & here

Take the envelope and draw a black line down the middle. Below the line draw a circle and color in a face of a cat. Color the area around the face black. On the top portion of the envelope draw red stripes for his hat. Take your red construction paper and glue it on the black line, this is that hat's brim. Print the pictures and if your children are old enough, let them cut them out. Then you can have them match the rhyming words. When you are done, store the pictures in your Cat in the Hat envelope.

March Book Basket

The Lorax

Green Eggs and Ham

Hop on Pop

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Book

Fox in Socks

Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Farm

A Busy Day at the Farm

Jobs on a Farm

The Night Before St. Patrick's Day

 

Scholastic Reader Level 1: It's St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day

That's What Leprechauns Do

It's Spring

Splish, Splash, Spring

Down Comes the Rain (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)

Dr. Seuss Week - Hop On Pop

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Hop on Pop  was always a class favorite for my kinder student's.  After reading the book I would pull out a large bag of balloons - a sure way to get your kids excited.  Each balloon contained a word and they had to HOP on the balloons until they popped (this was much harder then they thought). Once the balloons were popped they would read the word and come up with other words that rhymed with it.

Another fun idea for home from ObSEUSSed - she drew POP on a twin sheet and put it on the bed and let her kids "Hop on Pop".

Dr. Seuss Week - Bartholomew and the Oobleck

This was always a hit with my class and a great way to mix literature and science in one lesson. Start off by reading Bartholomew and the Oobleck

 Discuss with your kids how they think you should make Oobleck.  Put out ingredients and let them experiment with different mixtures.  If the weather is nice head outside to do this and you won't have to worry about the mess. Then after they have come up with their own mixture whip up some Oobleck and let them compare the results.

Ingredients:
1 part cornstarch
1 part water
Food coloring (could tint hands)
Mix all the ingredients together.

Some  fun things to observe about OOBLECK:
*Oobleck is a solid and a liquid at the same time.
*If you make a ball and throw it up in the air, it loses shape and will flatten in the air.

*Oobleck will mold to the shape of a container but when taken out it will flatten.

*If you fill a balloon with 0obleck, the air pressure will force the Oobleck back out.

*When you leave Oobleck in the sun, the color evaporates, it turns hard like cement on the top and like jelly on the bottom. When heated this also happens and it is sticky.

Picture Credit to Science Cafe

Dr. Seuss Week - Green Eggs and Ham

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 In honor of his birthday on March 2nd  we will celebrate Dr. Seuss and  Read Across America this week.  Green Eggs and Ham is one of his most popular books so this is a great way to kick things off. 

Do you like Green Eggs and Ham?  Not sure, try out this healthy recipe from the Food Network or this kid friendly version on your family this morning. 

If those are not a hit I am sure this version will be:

Ingredients:
pretzel sticks
white candy melts
green m&m's

Directions:
Break pretzel sticks to desired length. Place pairs of pretzels onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Put white chocolate melts in a ziploc bag and microwave for 30 second intervals until melted. Cut the corner of the bag with scissors and pipe chocolate onto pretzel sticks in the size of a nickel. Press m&m's onto white chocolate. Let the white chocolate harden before removing from parchment paper.
Substitute: Vanilla icing or marshmallow fluff for the candy melts.

Check out these other great links for additional activities:
http://www.seussville.com/#/home
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/dr-seuss-birthday/printables/green-eggs-and-ham.html