To "kick off" our celebrating Seuss week, we wore silly socks. Reading the book Fox in Socks was a must today! We read it despite the clear warning at the beginning of the book that the sentences can tie your tongue in knots with all the rhymes. The children wore their craziest socks and we practiced finding and making rhymes. In our morning meeting, we greeted each other with a foot five. We even did a fun sort of real words and nonsense words. Later, we also read Dr. Seuss's Foot Book, for feet go well with socks. Check out our "Foxy" socks and cute feet!
Our literacy centers are filled with Dr. Seuss this week. Here are just a few. We have several books on our class ipods. The children are loving listening to them at "read along" center. There is a magnetic letter center where students are assembling famous Dr. Seuss quotes. Students are writing silly sentences of rhyming words in another center. For word work, students are matching the scrambled green eggs of mixed up sight words. I also have a collection of Dr. Seuss digital books for the iPad. The apps are the books with the option to have the books read aloud. The apps are on sale this week from Oceanhouse Media Books. I highly recommend!
There was one more important FOOT activity that we finished on Fox in Socks day. Our culminating project for our Project Lead the Way module on animal adaptations ended today. For a couple weeks, the students have been in different environment groups. The students in each group have been researching four different environments: the Arctic, Amazon Rain forest, African Savanna, and the Sahara Desert. The groups studied the climate, landscape, and animal adaptations of their habitat. The groups also presented their learning to the class. Last, the groups had to design a shoe for their environment. The shoes had to have a design element to help with camouflage, locomotion, and protection in their specific environment. While the shoes may look odd, straight out of a Dr. Seuss book, the designs had very important, scientific purpose. Here are some pics of the weeks leading to the culmination.
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