Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Monday was spent celebrating Dr Seuss’ birthday! We made green eggs and ham, Oobleck, read Dr Seuss stories, and did fun activities. 

Reading Green Eggs and Ham to the students before we made and tried green eggs 

This card was sent home with students last Friday. The hope was for every student to bring it back with an item on Monday. A few of the students participated and the class enjoyed guessing what was in their bag.

I taught a lesson on making mental images that accompanied the book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. I read a short excerpt from from the book and asked students to close their eyes and make a picture in their head of what I said. Then, they went to a table and illustrated their mental image. Most of the students grasped the concept while only a few drew pictures that were unrelated to the excerpt I had read. This is what I read for the students to create their mental image from:

“My hat is old. 

My Teeth are gold.

I have a bird I like to hold. 

My shoe is off. 

My foot is cold.”

I absolutely love how cute these hats turned out! We had thing one to thing twenty two as each student had a different number. Students wore their hat for most of the day!