A Week with Dr. Seuss!

We spent all week learning with Dr. Seuss! Every day we read at least one of his books, and then went to play and learn at centers related to the book of the day.

Monday- The Foot Book

After reading, we talked about opposites and rhyming words. Then, we all took off a shoe and got to work measuring. How many "feet" tall are you?

We also started making our giant feet!

Tuesday- One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

After reading this classic, we had some fun working on our letters while fishing! Then, we practiced sorting some fish crackers, and identified fishy numbers up to 20. Our play dough table had some fishy friends as well!

Wednesday- Wacky Wednesday!

We came to school on Wednesday dressed in our wacky best! At circle time, we found and unpainted a wacky mixed up alphabet. At centers, we added fur, toenails, and silly features to our giant feet, and also looked for all the wacky inconsistencies in some I Spy pictures.

Thursday- Green Eggs and Ham

We used this book to help us with some sight word matching- tricky! After stretching our brains, we got down to some cooking and made our own green eggs and ham.

FINALLY Friday- The Cat in the Hat

We wrapped up our week with The Cat in the Hat. We wore hats to school, finished our Cat in the Hat masks, practiced our cutting with Thing 1 and 2 wigs (and tried on our finished giant wacky feet), and had some book time with all the great Dr. Seuss books. We ended our day with a quick class poll of our favorite book.

Week of February 23

We did a little bit of everything during the week of February 23! Since we were exploring the letter Vv, we focused on vegetables. Veggie painting was a big hit- we used peppers, cucumbers, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and celery to make prints.

We also did some taste testing during the week! We tried carrots, cucumber, cauliflower and broccoli. Some of us liked everything, some of us liked one or two, and sometimes we found something that we thought tasted pretty bad. :) Everyone tried everything though, because how else will you know if you like it?? Even if we were sure we did not like something, we tried a tiny bite, because Ms. Heather reminded us that "Today could be the day it tastes great." Every day, we created a new bar graph based on our taste test, and talked about how many, more/ less, most and least.

Our class of authors also made a new book this week! We painted pictures of the sky, ground, and buildings as backgrounds for our superhero photos from 100th Day. Then we dictated to Ms. Heather about our special super powers. (Ignore the blurry call out shapes- names have been retouched out for privacy.)

Last, we ended the week with our annual Donuts with Dad breakfast. We have been working on a special camera for Dad- sanding, painting and writing at centers to get everything ready. We also painted some bright backgrounds for our all about Dad surveys. At breakfast, we showed the dads our classroom, spent some time drawing on the table paper and finished with a song. We had a wonderful time with our daddies (and daddy helpers) that came to visit!