A Month of Celebrating Dr. Seuss

We have been having so much fun celebrating Dr. Seuss!  Our activities have incorporated several of the Common Core standards.
Our month long celebration kicked off  with decorating our door based on a book by Dr. Seuss.  We chose I Can Read with My Eyes Shut.  

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On March 2nd, Dr. Seuss' birthday, we welcomed Dr. Creeden as guest reader.  Many of the children did not recognize him as Superintendent of Schools; according the children his claim to fame was being the narrator for the first grade's production of the Polar Express.  :)

Dr. Creeden read What Pet Should I Get? The book includes information about Dr. Seuss' life and he shared a lot of this information with the students.  

  

He also brought along a new Dr. Seuss book! This follow-up to The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories features familiar Seussian faces and places—including Horton the Elephant, Marco, Mulberry Street, and a Grinch—as well as an introduction by renowned Seuss scholar Charles D. Cohen. Seuss fans will learn more about Horton’s integrity, Marco’s amazing imagination, a narrowly avoided disaster on Mullbery Street, and a devious Grinch. 

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Many thanks to Dr. Creeden for donating these wonderful books to our classroom library!

After reading many of Dr. Seuss' books we discussed characters, setting and major events in the story. Then the children graphed their favorite book using a bar graph.

After reading There's a Wocket in My Pocket...

For more Dr. Seuss fun, explore the Seussville website to find books read aloud, games, activities, and everything Dr. Seuss. Click on the Cat in the Hat below to get to this fun, educational, and engaging website!

Reminder!

 Wednesday March 30th is dress up as your favorite story book character!

Common Core Standards

1.MD.4

Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.

RL.1.3

Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

SL.1.5

Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.