Simple ideas for a fun and fabulous Read Across America Week or Reading Week

Dr. Seuss scavenger hunt clues for kids that are perfect for Read Across America Day, Dr. Seuss Week, or a way to make reading fun!

This Dr. Seuss-Inspired Memory Game for kids is an amazing activity for enjoying learning fun. It's perfect for brain breaks and more!

Included in this package is a 7-page (8.5 X 5.5 inch pages) book about Read Across America Week! This book is fun, informative and a great book for those early learners! I created this book for my Pre-Kinders. I made it to be easily cut down the middle and then gathered and stapled to make a mini bo...

I love to spend over two weeks in the month of March reading a different Dr. Seuss book to my students each day. After reading the Dr. Seuss book, I have my students complete fun activities that go with it! I like to begin my unit by talking about who Dr. Seuss was. I go through my "Who Was Dr. Seuss" Anchor Charts that I made! Here are just some of the Dr. Seuss activities we do after reading each book: Green Eggs and Ham After reading the book Green Eggs and Ham we used these charts to graph our responses to the following questions: Instead of making actual green eggs and ham I like to make these cookies that look like green eggs and ham. I don't show the cookies to the students until after they answer the anchor chart questions. They always think they will be eating actual green eggs and ham. They are always shocked and excited to see it is a cookie! LOL The Cat in the Hat I have my students use their picture to make themselves into Thing 1 and Thing 2! Mr. Cat Comes Back! I always love to read the Dr. Seuss book: The Cat in the Hat Comes Back the day after reading the original version. Here are some of the different activity pages I have my students complete after we read the book... Activity 1: Comparing the two stories using a Venn Diagram Activity 2: Writing Prompt: How would you remove the ring from the bathtub? Activity 3: Comprehension Crossword Puzzle Activity 4: Word Search Click HERE to download these activities! Feet, Feet, Feet! The Foot Book is one of my favorite Dr. Seuss books! There are so many great lessons and activities you can pair with this book! After reading The Foot Book to my students we cover antonyms, adjectives, non-standard/standard measurement, skip counting, etc! Here is a look into some of the fun activities we do... I like to teach a quick mini lesson on what antonyms are. We use the brain storm chart together as a class to think of words that are antonyms. I have the students complete the Antonym Foot Match worksheet as a quick assessment. For a fun antonym activity, I give each student a pair of feet with one word written on one of the feet. They have to think of the antonym to that word and write it on the other foot. Finally, they illustrate what each word means. I display the antonym feet on a large foot that I make out of butcher paper on my classroom door! I like to place these activity at my literacy centers... For this activity, the students match the pair of antonym feet! Here the students sort each flip flop depending on if it goes on the left or right foot. I also like to review adjectives with my students using The Foot Book. I like to slip in a quick review lesson on adjectives anytime I can since they can be so difficult for some first graders to understand! Here we review what an adjective is and brain storm adjectives that describe feet. We fill in the foot chart together as a class. Finally, I divide my students into small groups and give each group a copy of The Foot Book. They work together to find adjectives in the book. They record their answers on the worksheet. For a fun non-standard measurement activity I have each student trace and cut out their foot. They measure their foot using cubes, paper clips, and pennies. They record their answers on their worksheet! This is another great non-standard measurement activity. I place long strips of masking tape on the floor of my classroom. The students use their feet to measure the length of each line and record it on their worksheet. After everyone is finished we discuss what answers each student got and why everyone got different answers. Here is an example of a tape strip on the floor for the students to measure. After we discuss why everyone got different answers we then discuss the actual foot measurement on a ruler. I pass out a ruler to each student and they work together to measure each tape strip in actual feet for the second time around. When everyone is finished we share our answers and discuss why everyone got the same answers now. Here are some skip counting worksheets I like to place at my math centers. Click HERE to download these activities! Fox in Socks After reading the book, Fox in Socks we talk about what Synonyms are. The students write a pair of synonyms on their pair of socks and illustrate what the words mean. The Lorax After reading the book, The Lorax we go through these story element Truffula Trees as a class! Then, each student makes a poster on how they can take care of the Earth. One Graph, Two Graphs, Three Graphs, More! The Dr. Seuss book, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish has so many great activities I like to pair it with...especially math activities! Here is a look into some of the fun activities we do with this book... After reading the book to the students we discuss/review what an antonym is. I reread the book to the students as they point out the antonyms they hear in the story. We add the words on our T-chart. I place this Fishing for Antonyms activity at one of my literacy centers. My students LOVE this antonym center activity! The fishing rod has a magnet on the end of it and the fish have brads in their eyes. The students use the fishing rod to "fish" for words that are antonyms! I have my students complete this antonym worksheet as a quick assessment on what they know. Here are two other literacy center activities I place at my centers during the week. For this activity the students play "Go Fish" for rhyming words. Here the students sort the fish depending on if they have a real or non-sense word written on them. I use Goldfish crackers for a lot of my activities. I place the Goldfish in snack sized Ziploc bags and staple the bag toppers on! My students complete different graphing activities with the Goldfish crackers. We learn and practice with Tally Graphs, Bar Graphs, and Picture Graphs! Each graphing activity just takes 10 Goldfish crackers! Tally Graph: Picture Graph: Bar Graph: Mixed Graphing Practice: Class Survey Graphing Activity: For this graphing activity the students get to taste a Goldfish cracker and a Swedish Fish. Then, the students go around and ask each classmate which snack they liked better. They tally the results and graph the data on a bar graph. Making Estimations: I set up two different estimation jars. One jar is filled with Goldfish crackers and the other is filled with Swedish Fish. The students guess how many fish are in each jar. The student that gets closest to the answer gets to have the snack to take home. Here is another estimation activity we do with Goldfish crackers. Measurement Activities: Not only do we use Goldfish crackers to graph...we also use them as a non-standard measurement tool. My students love making a fish out of their own hand. They use different measurement tools to measure the length of their hand/fish. Goldfish crackers are perfect for making patterns with too! :) For this fraction activity the students get ten Goldfish crackers. They write the fraction for each color. Here are some additional math activities: Click HERE to download these activities! Who Saves the Day? After reading the Dr. Seuss book, Horton Hears a Who! we discuss a couple character traits that Horton has. We fill in the chart together by listing the trait and the evidence in the story that made us think Horton had that trait. I also have my students complete the character trait bubble worksheet on their own. As a class, we also answer the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How Questions about the story on the newspaper anchor chart. Finally, the students get to make these super cute crafts! For this craft and writing prompt the students pretend they are a Who and write what they would say to Horton in the speech bubble. For this craft and writing prompt the students fill in their name and a silly name of something they hear on their clover and write about it! I also have my students complete the following Venn Diagrams. Click HERE to download these activities! Up, Up, and Away We Go! After reading the Dr. Seuss book: Oh, the Places You'll Go! I have my students create a hot air balloon and suitcase craft. Each one has a writing prompt that the students answer and attach to their craft. For the hot air balloon craft the students pick one of the following writing prompts to write about.... Prompt #1: If I could go anywhere, I would want to go to... Prompt #2: If I could be anything when I grow up, I would want to be a... Underneath the hot air balloon is the student's writing. Using silly student pictures would be super cute! For the luggage craft, the students pick one of the following writing prompts to write about.... Prompt #1: Where I want to go...Why I want to go there...What I'm bringing with me... Prompt #2: Who I want to meet...Why I want to meet them...What I would bring them... The suitcase has a luggage tag with the student's name on it. The writing prompts are glued inside the suitcase! Click HERE to download these activities! The Alphabet Book Activities After reading Dr. Seuss's ABC Book to my students, I have them complete the following activities... Parts of Speech Word Search For this activity, the students look for nouns, verbs, adjectives, and Dr. Seuss's original words in the ABC Book. Class Alphabet Book I assign each student a letter. They think of a word that starts with that letter and fill in their page. Each student shares their page with the class as we add it to our class book! A through Z Scavenger Hunt The students walk around the classroom to find items that start with each letter of the alphabet. They write the word on their recording page. I always like to make this a challenge with my students. We like to see who can find the most words! Literacy Center Work I place this worksheet at a literacy center. The students think of their own letter and words to complete their page. The students also complete this letter match activity at their center. Click HERE to download these activities! There's Something in My Pocket! There's a Wocket in my Pocket! by Dr. Seuss is another one of my favorites! There are so many fun activities I like to pair with this book. Here is a look at some of them... After reading the book we think of as many words as we can that rhyme with the word pocket. We add them to our anchor chart. Then, I have my students create their own silly creature. They add their creature inside the t-shirt pocket. They name their creature so it rhymes with the word pocket. Finally, I have them write about their creature! I like to break my students up in small groups and give each group of students the There's a Wocket in my Pocket! book. They work as a group to find a pair of rhyming words. Then, they decide which word is a real word and which word is a made up word by the author. They write the words in the correct column on their page. Instead of using a pocket...here the girls in my class create a creature, name it, and add it to their locket. The boys in my class do the same, but for a rocket! For this activity I have my students create a creature and add it to an object of their choice. Then, they give their creature a name that rhymes with the object they placed it in. (Large Version) (Small Version) This activity is so much fun for the students! They secretly draw an object and add it to their pocket. Then, they write three clues. Each student will read their three clues to the class and see if their classmates can guess their object! (I created a small version of this craft to make it a 1 page craft.) I have my students create a class rhyming book. For this activity I give each student their own page. Each student creates a creature and completes their rhyming riddle. Each student shares their page with the class. I like to place these fun pocket sorts in my literacy centers for the week! Long/Short Vowel Word Sort Real Word/ Nonsense Word Sort Rhyme/Don't Rhyme Word Sort Click HERE to download these activities! MOO! MOO! Onomatopoeia Activities for YOU! The Dr. Seuss book: Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? is filled with lots of different onomatopoeias. I use this book as a fun way to teach a mini lesson on what an onomatopoeia is and to also review what a noun, verb, and adjective is. Before reading the book I teach a quick mini lesson on what an onomatopoeia is. After reading the book, I have the students give me some of the examples of the onomatopoeias they heard in the book. I list all their examples on our Brain Storm T-Chart. Then, as a class we complete the puzzle by matching the different sounds with what makes the sound. We then create an onomatopoeia class book where each student completes the writing prompt: I can go ____ like a/an _____. I have each student share their page when they are done and we add it to our class book! Finally, we review the different parts of speech and sort the words on each hat. I have each student complete this worksheet independently at their desk. Here is another chart I've made to review the different parts of speech. Click HERE to download these activities! To end our fun week of Dr. Seuss activities we eat these yummy hat cookies! I made the hat cookie cutter out of a large metal can. The can was shaped and the edges were sanded to make the hat cookie cutter!

Your students will love being able to be a little silly with this fun poem template about reading everywhere! Fill in the blanks with pairs of rhyming words to create your very own poem. This is a great activity to go along with a Dr. Seuss unit or for Read Across America week. Visit ... Read More about Free “I Will Read” Poem Template

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Did you know that March 1st is Dr. Seuss’ birthday? It is also National Read Across America Day. To celebrate, I created a 100 Chart Art activity. If you’re still looking for some fun ideas to incorporate Dr. Seuss books into your week, make sure and check out some of these fun activities. More Seuss […]

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Day 3 of our unit was Dr. Seuss' birthday, and all birthdays MUST have cupcakes! :) Our focus book for Day 3 was: I just LOVE this book because it teaches SUCH a great lesson on preserving the environment. My kiddies were SO into this book and we had a fantastic discussion afterward. We discussed how the Once-ler hurt the environment, and the kids were really kind of mad at him for cutting down all the beautiful truffula trees and for hurting the animals' habitats!  After we read the book I asked to kids to each write a letter to the Once-ler telling him why he should not cut down the truffula trees (great mini-lesson on friendly letter format!) They came up with the CUTEST letters to the Once-ler! I took their letters home and mailed them to the Once-ler :) When I got to school the next morning, I checked my box, and guess what?! He wrote us back!! (We had some seriously express mail lol) The kids were soooo excited to find a big letter from him! Inside the envelope he also sent us some Truffula Seeds to plant! We decided to go plant them by the fence on the playground. I just LOVED this activity! My friend, Mrs. B, and I came up with it last minute the night before!! I am SOOOO glad we thought of it! Next year we want to have a little packet of seeds for each child to take home with a cute little note or poem attached to it :) Day 4 our focus book was: This book is great for reviewing nouns (even though they are silly ones!) We each graphed the number of pockets that each student in our class had. Then we interpreted the data in many different ways. We also worked on our flip books. I completely forgot to take pictures of these little activities! Boo! Throughout the week, I met with each of my small reading groups. On normal weeks, the books we read are leveled, but this week was a fun week, so we all read And really, what kid doesn't love The Cat in the Hat??! :) We worked on our descriptive writing by designing a new hat for The Cat and writing a detailed description of it. I hung all of the hats up on the board and each child got to read his/her description. Then the class had to try and guess that child's hat based on his/her description. During the writing process I told them that the goal was for their classmates to be able to picture the hat in their heads, and to be able to figure out which hat it was in just one guess. Some of them wrote the most detailed descriptions ever! This was a fun activity for my kiddos. Day 5: We read this in the morning and completed our flip books (posted a little ways down!!) You cannot read this book and NOT make oobleck! So in the afternoon we did a science investigation with oobleck! We first discussed the differences between solids and liquids, and the kids had a great conversation going. As a class we predicted whether we thought oobleck was solid or liquid based on what it looked like, and what we knew about solids and liquids. I made a record sheet for the kids (which I am not quite sure how to load on here yet!). They predicted whether a cotton ball, yarn, a penny, a paper clip and a pipe cleaner would sink or float in the oobleck. Then they recorded their results. I had them stir the oobleck with a popsicle stick very slooooowly and very quickly and record what happened each time. They learned that when they stirred it slowly that it was easy and felt like a liquid. But when they stirred it quickly it was just the opposite! Then they got to feel the oobleck. I had them poke it over and over again very fast-they thought it was a solid! Then I had them touch it very sloooowly-they thought it was a liquid! It was soooo fun to listen to their discussions about why it was a liquid and why it was a solid. We never did figure out which it was!! Oobleck has properties of both a solid and a liquid!! It was a great science lesson! **I strongly suggest having another adult (or two!) help you prepare the oobleck and help during this lesson!! Thank you to my former student teacher for helping!! :)** Since the week is over, my kids turned in their flip books. They included rhyming pairs from each book, a sentence or two stating their opinion of each book, and a picture from the book. And here is what my mini bulletin board looked like this week :) I included the Reader's Oath (which each child signed!) and we kept track of allllll the Dr. Seuss books we read together this week!! Very simple and not a lot of prep time :) 15 books in one week... not too shabby :) We have LOTS more that the kids want to continue reading next week, and I am soooo okay with it! “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” --Dr. Seuss

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Whose birthday is it? Or whose not-birthday isn't? Why Dr. Seuss would be one-hundred-eight right this minute! At BookRiot we're all book readers and

March 2nd is the birthday of everyone’s favorite author, Dr. Seuss. In honor of his contribution to reading, Read Across America has been a tradition in elementary schools across the country. This year, we (Thank you Kathryn Starke for this initiative) have kicked off an event entitled Tackle Reading Across America, in which NFL teams […]

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Time to plan for Read Across America Day with your favorite Dr. Seuss books. Check out these amazing activities to celebrate in your library!

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“Oh the Places You’ll Go” is not only perfect for March is Reading Month, Read Across America, or a Celebration of Seuss Week, but the story is also appropriate at the end of the year, when students are advancing into a new grade or graduating! With that in mind, I decided to combine reading and writing with a bit of geography, with this super-fun “Oh, the Places I’LL Go!” craftivity. Teacher Comments: "My students loved this exercise." “Great resource.” “Awesome!” “Cute activity.” "This was a great writing and art resource. The children were able to show their comprehension of the story in a fun way." Children think of a place they’d like to travel to. Money is no object, so the world is literally at their feet. Older students can do a bit of research to find out about a fascinating place they’d like to travel to. (Thus the geography connection, as well as great research & technology practice!) The cover of this “flip-the-flap” hat, comes with the question words: Who? What? Why? When? Where & How? written on the stripes, which when flipped over, reveal the student’s answers. For example, “Where would you like to travel to?”, "When would you like to go?", "Why do you want to go there?", "Who do you want to go with?", "What do you want to see?" and "How do you want to get there?" The craftivity provides an interesting way to practice & reinforce the “5 Ws + 1 H” question words in a fun way. Teacher Comment: "My students loved using this resource to get their thoughts together before they wrote their paragraphs." I’ve included a poster, with the entire questions that you can use to introduce your lesson. As always, patterns come in both black & white for students, as well as color, so that teachers can quickly & easily make an example to share. There are also blank patterns, so that older students can write in their own words and titles. See the PREVIEW for lots of samples. Completed projects make a terrific bulletin board or hallway display. I’ve included a variety of posters as well as letters for the caption: “Oh, the Places We’ll Go!” to add extra pizzazz. You can leave the hat “as is” or have students glue their completed craftivity to the suitcase pattern. A luggage tag for a student’s name, adds some 3D pop. HEADS UP! While designing this first “Oh the Places” HAT craft, I decided to divide things up and make a separate packet with a young child reading, as well as another packet featuring older students instead of putting everything into one purchase. By making 3 separate packets, teachers can choose which craft is most appropriate for their students and grade level. This also keeps the price down. While the writing prompt CRAFT is different in all 3 of the packets, they do include the SAME posters & letters for the bulletin board caption. Check out the links below: "Oh the Places I’ll Go for LITTLE Readers" "Oh the Places" Travel Trunk Writing Prompt Crafts I’m Diane from Teach With Me, wishing you a terrific time, traveling to all sorts of places! Come join the fun on Facebook for my exclusive FREEBIES & Monthly Giveaways. Check out my educational Pinterest boards. Don’t forget that all my new products are 40% off for 48 hours. Click the LINK button to follow my shop & you’ll be notified of these huge savings.

Dr. Seuss is my favorite author! All of his books are wonderful!!! I'm always in the mood to pick up one of his books and read away. My favorite book is Horton Hatches an Egg, Go Dog Go, and Green Eggs and Ham. Dr. Seuss's books inspire me, makes me laugh, and leaves me rhyming my sentences for the rest of the day. While searching through Pinterest, I have compiled a list of some fun ideas to use for Dr.Seuss. I thought I would share some of those ideas. I have a FREE Reading Log to share! Use for the Read Across America Week. Here is the Readers Oath. Click the picture to download this FREE poem in bookmark form: I promise to read each day and each night. I know it’s the key to growing up right. I’ll read to myself. I’ll read to a crowd. It makes no difference if silent or loud. I’ll read at my desk, at home, and at school, on my bean bag, or bed, by the fire or pool. Each book that I read puts smarts in my head ‘cause brains grow more thoughts the more they are fed. Come rain or come shine, snow, wind, or sleet, each day of the week reading’s a treat. So I take this oath to make reading my way of feeding my brain what it needs every day. I made a FREE Clipart Resource using 4 kids wearing a hat. If you would like to create your own teaching resources or add the clip art to your worksheets to spice up Dr. Seuss Day, just click the resource on the left. You will be taken to my clipart store. Check out my Pinterest board all ready full of Dr. Seuss ideas! Thanks for stopping by today! See you soon, Here are my favorite Dr. Seuss Books: Oh, the Places You'll Go Green Eggs and Ham Horton Hears a Who Go Dog Go Put Me in a Zoo The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins The Cat in the Hat Here are some fun Dr. Seuss items you may like: Dr. Seuss Socks! Dr. Seuss Pencils and Erasers Dr. Seuss Blanket Classroom Decoration Dr. Seuss Coloring Book Dr. Seuss Bookmarks Dr. Seuss Hat Reading is Fun Poster Dr. Seuss Sticky Notes Who Was Dr. Seuss? Beginning Dictionary Lesson Plan Book Back to School Stickers

How do you make Oobleck? To make the Dr. Seuss' Bartholomew and the Oobleck recipe for a science experiment, you need 3 ingredients.

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Dr. Seuss Day is celebrated in Elementary Schools around the country on March 2nd. The primary grades go crazy with their celebrations because most Dr. Seuss books appeal to that age level. I teach 5th grade so it is a bit more toned down that day. It is more difficult to tie the celebrations into grade level appropriate curriculum. The first thing we do is decorate our classroom door for the occasion. I photocopied a hat and had each student color their own. I used to buy premade cut outs but through the years I realized it would be more expensive that way. I could laminate them and re use them every year but they wouldn't be able to keep them. By having them color their own, the students were able to keep them when the day was over and we moved on to Pi Day. I send a newsletter home every Sunday night and I love to change the theme each month. I bought this newsletter template set with 24 editable templates from The Brown Bag teacher on TPT for $6.00. It was one of my best TPT purchases. I searched the Internet to find free printables with inspirational quotes from Dr. Seuss and printed them out on cardstock. One of the assignments we completed related to Dr. Seuss were Theodor Seuss Geisel Research Banners. They made an eye catching and informative display hanging in my classroom. I purchased them on TPT from Elementary Lesson Plans for $1.25. 5th graders love food! My husband made the kids deviled eggs with green food dye and wrapped up ham slices in honor of "Green Eggs & Ham." My teaching partner made a special "Cat in the Hat" treat with gummy Lifesavers and Oreos. We finished up the day with a Goal Setting Activity based on "Oh, the Places You Will Go" that I purchased on TPT from Sunshine on a Cloudy Day for $4.00. Still need more Dr. Seuss Day (Read Across America) Ideas? Check out my previous blog posts!

Instant download of 6 different Dr. Seuss worksheets for kids to do including a word search, crossword, and more fun activities!

Instant download of 6 different Dr. Seuss worksheets for kids to do including a word search, crossword, and more fun activities!

Hello my lovely friends :) Today was my first day back with my littles! WAHOO! I was so excited to get back to school and see my rockstars. Of course they were ridiculously bananas all day long, but that was pretty much what I expected! I'm just happy to be getting back into the swing of things. Here is a picture of my outfit on my first day of school (hehe)! It felt awesome to be wearing normal clothes again instead of yoga pants all the time! You know what the best part of my outfit is? That leg accesory. O.M.G. it goes with everything! Not. It's hideous. But a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do! I bought the adorable chevron skirt from Target for only $20! Yay! I can't tell you how big of a deal it is that I am wearing flats. I seriously NEVER wear flats. I only have about 20 pairs of flat shoes so I have no idea what I am going to do for all this time on crutches. My 75+ pairs of heels are calling my name. I'm a high heel fanatic. Sigh. I stared longingly at my beautiful black pumps this morning and almost shed a tear. I swear they were glaring at me as I slipped my feet into these flat babies. Woof. So when the kids showed up today they were literally jumping off the walls (I mean it when I say literally - one did a wall slide over to me, while another drop kicked his bookbag). I love their faces though :) All smiley and sweet! One of my girlies who is basically attached at my hip cried in my face. She was squeeling and saying, "My dreams came true! My dreams really did come true! How could this be? You're really here! I hope I'm not asleep". I was just hugging that little thing, cause she was so darn cute. After they all settled in, we were right back into our old groove. It's amazing how quickly you snap into teacher mode, isn't it? And it's amazing how quickly they slip into "Let's make completely absurd choices, just for fun" mode, isn't it? Gotta love those kinders. One of my favorite parts was when two of my kids cut their own hair and ate it during centers. I looked over to see them shoving pieces of hair into their mouths as fast as possible. I called them over immediately and made them spit it out, however, while the first was spitting her hair out, the second was swallowing as fast as she could before she got to the trash can. Not sure what was going on there. It's not like they were hungry, we just got finished with snacks. ANYWAY, long story short, it was a wonderful, long, exciting kindergarten day and I'm thrilled to be back :) Here are a few snapshots I took with the kids today. One of my sweeties saw my phone on my desk and asked if we could take a "funny picture" together, so I said yes and we took one. I look up .3 seconds later and there are 5 more kids who wanted one now. So we had a little impromptu photography session, but it was fun to just be silly with them for a few! Today we started our lessons on community helpers! I had about 4,000 things planned, but in true teacher fashion, I only got to about half of them. It literally took me my entire lunch period to walk all the way to my chart paper and make an anchor chart for the afternoon. And it turned out ugly on top of it all. I printed out the cutest labels that I included in my new "Community Helpers Mini-Unit", but of course I ran out of ink so the colors came out ridiculous. I had to go old skool and just use markers. Ooooh, how old fashioned! HA! The kids completed a student version of the "are can help" chart as we filled out the big one together. We did a few other activities, including starting our community helper mini-books and we read a book, but I didn't take nearly as many pictures as usual. It's tough to make it around the room and snap them! I'll be sure to do better tomorrow :) I will share more of our community helper fun as the week goes on. You can check out my mini unit by clicking the picture below! And now for a freebie! I created a Rhyme Time activity for Dr. Seuss Day. I plan on using it for centers on Friday. Feel free to grab yourself a copy by clicking the picture below! Don't forget about the FABBY FAB "The Naughty Leprechaun" giveaway I am having! This book is awesome people and is worth over $30! You will definitly want to enter if you haven't already :) a Rafflecopter giveaway Love and Hugs You Gorgeous People! :)

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