Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

Wednesday we celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday by participating in a school wide read in.  The first half hour of school all the students lined the hallways and just read.  Even the teachers and our principal dropped everything to read.  The Connected Ones wore their red and white stripes and smiles to school Wednesday to celebrate Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat.   Our Scholastic News was all about Dr. Seuss.  We learned many interesting facts about the famous author.  For example, Dr. Seuss collected silly hats because he thought wearing silly hats gave him funny ideas to write about!  It must have worked because he published over 40 books in his lifetime. We had special birthday cupcakes in celebration of Dr. Seuss.

Later in the day, after reading both The Cat in the Hat and The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, we did our daily graph.  Click here to hear the book rapped in 6 minutes. At the end of The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss asks if you would tell your mom about the adventure if it happened to you.  The kids answered the question in a graph; however, they didn't use their names....in case moms were going to see it!  Instead we used our "Thing" numbers!   Good news, most kids would tell mom!  We made fun "Thing" hats and played a math addition game called Thing 1 and 2 BUMP.

 Dr. Seuss has so many crazy ideas and characters.  We have had sometime this week to explore a website called Seussville.  The website is packed full of games, activities, videos, and printables.  The children love it!