I have
not linked with Five For Friday in quite some time, but I figured this week
would be the perfect time. With Read
Across America Week this week we have had a SEUSS filled week! The school started off the week with “Wear a
T-shirt With A Message” Day, then Tuesday was “Silly Sock” day for Fox In
Sox. Wednesday was wear GREEN day
for Green Eggs and Ham and Thursday was wear RED AND BLUE for One
Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, and finally Friday was dress like your
favorite book character day! Talk about
BUSY!!
1. DOOR TIME
We were
all asked to decorate our doors for the week.
Of course, I couldn’t help myself but look at Pinterest for ideas…and I
found THE LORAX. How perfect? I used the ELMO to enlarge the movie poster
for tracing and viola! Over the weekend
I got inspired to make some truffula trees to go with the door (which were
easier than they look) and this was the end result. What do you think??
2. Parent Readers
Parents
are always interested in helping out in the classroom and we are so busy with
curriculum it can sometimes be hard to find the time. Dr. Seuss week is a great opportunity to have
guest readers. I asked parents to come
in to read their favorite Dr. Seuss book.
It was great fun to see how excited my firsties were to see their moms
and dads coming in to read! We heard
some great books this week, The Cat In the Hat, Bartholomew and the 500
Hats, There’s a Wocket In My Pocket, and Oh The Places You Will Go!. I only wish one of them wanted to be photographed
;), then you could see how much fun they were having too!
3. Book Character Day
So TODAY
was book character day. Of course, it
wasn’t until Sunday that I started thinking about what I would be. I Pinterested it and found some AMAZING
ideas. Of course, all of them required
LOTS of work or money. I got stuck on
being the girl from The Bad Case of the Stripes. I really wanted to buy some rainbow leg
warmers or arm warmers, but none were PRIME eligible, so instead of waiting
14-28 days (NOT HELPFUL!), I decided to buy duct tape and line my sleeves and
leggings with rainbow tape. I am NOT
going to be doing the face paint, but I may do some colorful sticker dots on my
face for the morning.
4. Thing 1 and Thing 2 (Well really just Thing 1…)
This
activity was from a TPT pack that is no longer available due to the good DR’s
copyrighting. However, it could totally
be recreated in a less SEUSSY way.
On
Monday kids used this spinner to build read and nonsense –ing words.
On
Tuesday, they used their list of real –ing words to write sentences on 4 pages
(circle shaped to be the belly of Thing 1).
Finally,
I found time today (Friday) to put the Things together and stapled their
booklet to the belly. How cute are
these???
5. Cat In the Hat Glyphs
Last
year, I found this AMAZING pack that is totally NOT (YES IT IS) aligned with
the Dr.’s BIG week! One of the projects
in the pack is a “SILLY CAT” glyph. I
have renamed it The Cat In the Hat Glyph.
On Wednesday, each child completed a Glyph book.
This
helped me to figure out how many of each piece I would need.
Then on
Thursday we put them all together and hung them in the room.
I made a
set for the Little Lady’s classroom to make too. Though, they did not make a glyph, just
cats! Here she is proudly displaying the
model she made for her teacher to use J
BONUS
This is
a mom addition, but I wanted to share. I
guess you can tell I got into this week, but I also got my daughters classroom
into it! I made these Truffulla Tree
cupcakes for her room! They were easier
than they look. Cover the cupcakes with
green frosting, add a pirouette cookie for a tree and use cotton candy for the
tree and VOILA You are DONE!
I LOVE those cupcakes - they look so impressive! Your daughters' teachers must love you with the glyph and the cupcakes. You have an adorable blog, too!
ReplyDeleteLove all of your activities this week...you must have been busy Abbey! Love your door...so creative!
ReplyDeleteElyse :)
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