Seuss-tacular Celebration

  "Did you ever have the feeling there's a WASKET in your BASKET? ...Or a NUREAU in you BUREAU? ...Or a WOSET in you CLOSET?  Sometimes I feel quite CERTAIN there's a JERTAIN in the CURTAIN."  Our Seuss activities continued into Thursday and Friday. We read There's a Wocket in My Pocket.  We made a tally chart of all our pockets, then counted by 5's to discover that our class wore 46 pockets that day!  Each Seuss book this week gave us so many learning opportunities.  And, come to think of it, we had so many snacking opportunities as well!  Ha! 

After reading and discussing the rhymes in One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Hop on Pop, and Wocket in My Pocket....we made our own rhyming hats with our third grade buddies. The students worked very hard on their rhymes.  I love how they used their tools.  Many students used word family sliders from around our classroom.  They also used the app Word Wizard.  Word Wizard is a moveable alphabet for $2.99.  The app says the words as the students build them.  It also lets them  know if words are spelled correctly.  So students could build and try words with the word family and check their spelling.  Awesome.  Many students found their hats were getting too big for their desks and had to move to the floor. 

The children also loved making the guided drawings of the Cat in the Hat.  They did a great job listening to directions and being patient with themselves.  I love that the drawings all turned out different but still look "right."

One of my favorite activities we did this week was writing book recommendations for our favorite Seuss stories.  So much thinking, writing, speaking, and tech-ing went into this project.  First, the students had to formulate their opinions and write a book report.

 After writing down their thinking, the students made videos of their opinions.  One of our district's technology integration specialists, Mrs. Piltz, came in to help with making the videos.  Each student recorded the video in front of a green screen.  Then we used the app Do Ink to add the pages in the background.  The students are so proud of their creations.  Thank you so much, Mrs. Piltz! Here are just a few examples.  It was so hard to pick.