A Seuss-tastic Week!

Are you all as tired as I am from this week? There was so much to do in such little time... right? Here is what we did to celebrate Dr. Seuss!

We read the Cat and the Hat and did these cats to go along with it...

I love this project and so do the kiddos!

Then we wrote about what we do to have fun when we have to stay inside on a rainy day...

Who doesn't love to stay inside to play Just Dance on a rainy day!?!

Here's our hallway board... I really love the quote from the story so I have to put this one up EVERY year!

Earlier in the week I did a few activities with my ELDers, too! We read There's a Wocket in my Pcoket, made our own wockets and then worked on position words in statements.

Here's our anchor chart... we also made a board list of all the position words we could think of...

The kids worked in partners. One kiddo put their wocket somewhere and their partner had to say where it was using one of our position words... This one was..."There's a wocket on the tiger."


I also snapped a pic of this one which I thought was funny..."There's a wocket under the scissors."

And we read Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? We mapped all of the sound words we could think of and the practiced asking and answering questions to each other. "I can quack like a duck. Can you?"  "Yes I can, Quack, Quack." The kids had to ask six others including myself. As they answered a questions they wrote down their name on the askee's paper... You can pick up the name recording sheet HERE!

And we capped off the week with Green Eggs and Ham! I saw this on pinterest and decided to go for it... way better than the scrambled eggs! The kids were all kinds of grossed out(one kiddo was positive it was lime ice cream inside of the egg and refused to eat it.... I had to do a lot convincing to get EVERYONE to at least try it) and the then they were in love after they tasted it!

Tons of green food coloring for the deviled eggs and ham cut with a star shaped cookie cutter on top!

Excitedly waiting... except for one... Do you see lime ice cream boy? His face is priceless!

After we ate we finished up with a survey and a graph!

Get this page HERE!

And last but not least I gave each kiddo a giant Seuss eraser that I scored from the target dollar spot way back in September!

Yea! You made it! I hope you had an amazing week also! I'll be back soon with some March freebies... Have a fantastic weekend!

I Scream, You Scream...

**Update 1/30/2017! Please find the patterns for this craftivity in my TPT Store HERE!**

We all scream for ICE CREAM!... So yes, it has been rainy and cold this week, but we had a little fun with ice cream anyway! We had a HM decodable about a tired ice cream truck and that spurred a few other ice cream related activities. May fave was this fun little fact family sundae:

We assembled our sundaes, I assigned the kiddos their family numbers (conveniently printed on labels) and then they wrote each family equation onto a scoop of ice cream... and hello giant cherries! LOVE! They had a great time making them!

I strung them up along my wall of windows

ignore the icky North sign... we're also working on directions!

 I added the title 'We're dishing up bowls of fact families' and can I just say this makes me smile each time I come in the room!

Short and sweet tonight! If you want the sundae patterns let me know and I'll post it! Can't wait to share all of the Seuss hoopla that we have been up to... see you all soon!

Oh and have a happy Friday!

**Update1/30/2017: You can find the pattern for this project HERE! Or by clicking the pic below!**

 

If you give a pig a pancake... pattern freebie!

This week we did one of Laura Numeroff's fabulous books, If You Give a Pig a Pancake! My students just adore her books so the fact that HM tucked this one into the anthology made my kiddos' week.

We spent most of the week talking about cause and effect, pick up our worksheet HERE, and what is real vs. fantasy. This kids got to make up fantasy statements about pigs. Some of my faves that they came up with were ... "Pigs can go shopping with Mrs. Hodson" and "Pigs can be spaceship commanders" (we also learnerd about Neil Armstrong this week). Then we disproved each students' wacky claim. The kids really liked doing that part!

We also threw in a little compound word study, we did the bulk of it last week but they are still so excited when they spot one :) So, we made this cute pig to go along with our story which is holding writing about what each child would give their pig (but they could only choose things that were compound words). I think they look too funny! Here are a couple of my kiddos pigs...

And here is our whole class pig board...

You can get the pig pattern and writing page by clicking on the pic below!

Have a great weekend!

And the winner is...

Well actually, no one was able to guess my favorite Seuss book... If I ran the Zoo!

So, I used the random generator to pick #4, Miss Ashely!Congrats and check your inbox!

...and as an extra special bonus I am half pricing my mini Cat in the Hat unit till Friday!

Happy Wednesday!