Seuss-tastic! by Mrs. Abraham (Kinder teacher)

Kindergarten had a Seuss-tastic day on Monday, March 2nd celebrating Read Across America Day and Dr. Seuss's birthday!  We spent the day relating all of our subject area learning to Dr. Seuss books. We started our morning, along with all of TWE and schools everywhere, with some DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) time.  This is the 18th year that the National Education Association is building a nation of readers through its signature program, NEA’s Read Across America.

 

In Mrs. Abraham's class, we had 10 minutes of independent reading time and then 20 minutes of read aloud time to listen to various Dr. Seuss books! During the day, we did a lot of fun literacy activities that related to different Dr. Seuss books.  We read The Cat in the Hat and made Cat in the Hat hats with a list of rhyming words to wear.  Our word work focused on creating real vs. nonsense rhyming words.  We read Green Eggs and Ham and wrote a class book of silly sentences about eating foods in funny places like Sam-I-Am.  We read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and created addition stories with goldfish crackers. We learned about the life of Dr. Seuss as an author by watching a Brainpop Jr. video.  Did you know that Dr. Seuss’ real name was Theodore Seuss Geisel?  Lastly, we read Bartholomew and the Oobleck and used our 5 senses to make observations of Oobleck that we made as a class! It was a engaging day that made our love for Dr. Seuss and reading continue to grow!

 

 

 

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