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Read Across America, the annual week-long celebration of reading is almost here. Is there anything better than an entire week devoted to books and reading? Yeah, I didn’t think so. As teachers, one of our number one priorities is to help students learn to love reading. Because when they love reading, they read more. And

I survived reading week!! Let me tell you - this week did NOT go as planned. Oh! But first, you can read last year's Reading week HERE. But, here's the little reason this week didn't go as planned. This little girl gave us quite the scare Wednesday morning and I had to head to the E.R. with her. Thankfully, Ron was home that morning and I have a WONDERFUL team that really helped out... and PTL, she suffered nothing but a minor concussion. It could have been a LOT worse. She looks all like her silly and goofy self, doesn't she?! Man. I'm so thankful she's alright. So, anyway, back to Seuss. week. The kids EAT the books alive, all.week.long. I put them away after the week is over and they beg me to keep them out. lol OH! And here's a little #flashbackfriday to a few years ago. Look how little A and B are! And yes...those are cat shoes. lol So anyway... man, I feel like I have ADHD right now haha! Back to Seuss week. This is the spirit week schedule we went by this year. On Monday, we did some character analysis with Cat in the Hat. I always love how their drawings come out! And we started our Guided Reading using one of the Scholastic New Magazines.... comparing fiction and nonfiction. Even though Tuesday was "Oh, The Places You'll Go" theme - I kind of use that just so I can get their pictures in their college shirts for the balloons (you'll see that later), we also did Green Eggs and Ham.... working on rhyming words is SO hard (being able to produce rhyming words anyway.) (aren't my standards so pretty on the wall?? haha... forgot the last word, but already put the period, messed up the actual standard number... whatever. lol. This is real life, people) On Wednesday, I wasn't there... boo! It's one of my favorite days. BUT, I sent my girl in to school with some Wacky-ness going on. and while I was out, they did their Wacky Wednesday class book... On Thursday, we needed to get started on their balloons!! So we made a quick chart of things they wanted to do or be when they grew up. Then... they turned them into their balloon writing!! This is one of my most favorite things we make all year! They always turn out soooo cute. Friday.. we had some fun with Fish!! Fish Math is one of my favorites. Annnnd... we ended with Schlopp!! Schlopp, schlopp, beautiful schlopp! Beautiful schlopp with a cherry on top!! annnnd... now I'm exhausted, and ready to kick my feet up and enjoy a book on the beach this weekend! Yes please.

10 Reading Week Ideas No comments Read Across America, Reading, reading week, Teaching Ideas Once a year we get the opportunity to dedicate a full week to all things related to reading. Reading Week, or Read Across America, is such a great way to instill a love of learning in students. This post contains affiliate links for your shopping convenience. I earn a small commission each time someone makes a purchase through one of my links. For more information about my Disclosure Policy, please visit this link. My school does a lot of school wide events to make Reading Week special, but I always like to do a few things of my own. If you're looking for some simple ways to make this week extra special for your students, then keep on reading. Book Snack During a read aloud, let your students enjoy a special snack. This can be as cutesy and themed as you want it to be (or not at all). Trust me when I tell you that your kids will love snacking on Goldfish as you read Mercy Watson to them. But, if you want to amp it up a bit, here are a few suggestions to work with: Read Corduroy and let students eat a button shaped cookie Read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and give them a cookie (or pair any book in this series with its food item) Read The Watermelon Seed or Watermelon Madness and let the students eat a slice of watermelon or some watermelon sour gummies Read Diary of a Worm and let students eat a few gummy worms Random Themed D.E.A.R. Times Rather than offer silent reading at the same time each day during Reading Week, switch up the times each day. Better yet, make that D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read) time themed! This is such a simple way to make silent reading more fun. Invite your students to participate in daily themes such as reading to a stuffed animal, laying on a pillow, or reading in the dark with a flashlight. Send home the note below home the Friday before Reading Week so students can prepare over the weekend for day one. You can grab this D.E.A.R. note by signing up for my newsletter. Click here to sign up. :) Schedule some D.E.A.R time for Read Alouds D.E.A.R. time isn't just for silent reading. It can be for read alouds too! So, drop everything and read to your students. They'll love it. Flashlight Read If you don't like the idea of themed D.E.A.R. time, then opt for a day or two of flashlight reading. Finger flashlights are always popular with students. Turn down the lights, give each student a finger flashlight, and let them read. Easy peasy. Find a New Place to Read Weather permitting, maybe you can take your kids outside to read one day. Is there anything more fun than sitting on the play structure and reading? If the weather isn't cooperating, then find other places in your building to read. Maybe you could let them read: on the school stage in the hallway in your computer lab in your school library (if it's available for use) Buddy Read Partner up with a different grade level for some buddy reading. I remember having Big Buddies in elementary school (and then one day becoming a Big Buddy myself). It was always so fun to read with kids in a different grade. Have a Read-In Let your students participate in a read-in. This could be a full day event, or a half day. Let students bring a blanket and pillow so they can cozy up as they read. And, if you're feeling bold, let them build reading forts. Set Out Baskets of Special Books Put out some special baskets filled with books. These books can come from your own classroom library, or even the school library. Choose some fun themes, new titles, or Caldecott winners and invite your students to read these featured books during D.E.A.R. time. Book Share Throughout the week, let the students take turns sharing a favorite book. This is an easy way to incorporate some speaking and listening into your week. Once students choose a book, they can explain why they like it. It would also be a great way to get students excited about reading new books. Make a Bookmark Let your students make a bookmark. They could make one from scratch (give them a plain white template and let them have at it), or let them color a bookmark like the one shown below. You can grab this fun bookmark by signing up for my newsletter. Click here to sign up. :) Extra, Extra A few fun extras you might want to consider are sending home Reading Bingo to encourage more reading at home. Or, a fun reading themed graphing activity that allows you to get in a little extra math practice. You can grab both of these fun extras by signing up for my newsletter. Click here to sign up. :) I hope you are able to use an idea or two from this post! Happy reading, my friends. And, don't forget, you can grab all of the fun resources featured in this post for FREE by signing up for my newsletter. Click here to sign up. DON'T FORGET IT, PIN IT! Share It:

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!

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Hi all! I've missed out on several Five for Fridays this school year. I don't know about you, but by Friday I am super tired. I just want to go out with my family for a nice dinner and come home to chill. This Friday is no exception, especially with a week of Read Across America activities going on at my school. We've had all sorts of special dress up days and special guests. I was terrible about snapping pics of the kids in their outfits. I think my favorite was on hat day, when one of my little blond girls showed up with a hat that had long, dark dreadlocks attached to it. I cracked up every time I looked at her. I did, however, manage to get some pictures from week. So let's get started with Five for Friday: Read Across America Rewind. Number 1 Of course we did a slew of read alouds during Read Across America. The kids love, love, love Dr. Seuss books. I love finding ones that are new to them. The read alouds were (and are always) the highlight of my week. Number 2 Our school has a door decorating contest during Read Across America. My firsties made Things for my door this year. I'm sure you can tell from the picture, the hair on the Things is made from hand prints. I think they turned out really cute. The class was really proud of the door when it was finished. Click here for a link to my Thing pattern. Number 3 I found some adorable photo booth props on etsy. I printed off some Lorax inspired mustaches and brows. The kids had a ball with them. One of my sweet boys managed to keeps his on for a couple of hours. He just went about his day as if he did not have a huge construction paper mustache stuck to his face. So funny! Number 4 Also on esty, I found a fun apron to wear during Read Across America. My husband just shakes his head when these packages arrive at the house. For some reason he just doesn't get why someone might need a Cat in the Hat apron. I guess he just has to take my word for it. Number 5 One of the books we read this week was Put Me In the Zoo by Robert Lopshire. I know, it's not a Seuss book. But it certainly reminds me of one, so I usually read it during RAA. Plus, I love the story. After reading this book, the kids worked on a writing piece, "If I had magic spots . . . " After they finished their writing, we made leopards to display along with their pieces. You can have a FREE copy of this activity by clicking on the picture below. If your students are anything like mine, they will enjoy this story and the activities to go with it. Well, there are some of the highlights from this week in Room 8. If you would like to check out the happenings in other classrooms, be sure to visit Doodle Bugs Teaching's Five for Friday this week. Thanks so much for stopping by and take care.

Hey everyone!!! It's Read Across America Week and I am linking up with my Chalkie sisters and kinda doing a hodgepodge of the past few days and linking up! I've been a bad blogger (always honest here) and have been falling asleep! That's what 37 has done to me! So lets get started! I actually kicked off off linky party with some of my favourite books that my boys and I like to read! You can read my post here. I wanted to add some other books like: Any of the Skippyjon Jones books are just awesome!! In fact, my cat, Skippyjon Jones Hamlin is names after him!! He is a gorgeous boy! But he is actually a bad boy!! He poops on the floor. Every.Time!!! Long story.... but I love him!!! Any of the Janell Cannon books are my faves, too! I love Verdi as well! Although, Stellaluna also gets me choked up when she and her mama find each other!! Love!! If you've never read Owl Babies, it is just so darn cute and the pictures are stunning! I love to read this book during Halloween (plus, Halloween is my favourite holiday!) and it is great for sequencing and getting kids to be active participants in the story! Again, I love this book because you can actually "sing" it to your kids instead of reading it. This week at our school, we are making a whole week of it. In fact, we got together with our media specialist and came up with some activities: It has been pretty fun, so far! You have to know that my team and I always go all out for events like this. Today at our PD, everyone looked at us and was like, "Look at first grade!" LOL! Yes, we are that team! Here we are from yesterday, dressed as "Things" And here are my "things!!" So cute!!! <3 Then, today was "Wacky Wednesday"... we were all a hot mess! I always say it... I cannot love these girls any more than I already do!!! We worked on wacky centers today, too! We made up silly stories using a quick little center I whipped up! They rolled dice to find the character, setting, and problem: Click on paper to grab this writing!!! They had to come up with the solution to their own stories!!! They were hilarious!! I was too busy with some paperwork but some read me their stories and they were hilarious! One had a chameleon on an airplane and there was a dinosaur on the airplane terrorizing them. So their solution was that the chameleon blended in with their airplane surroundings and stuck it's tongue in the dinosaurs ear to stop it from roaring!! LOL! How fun is that!!! My class also worked on my Silly Cat Mirror Tricks center-- which they LOVED!! Click pic to grab your copy!! You could hear their words of amazement!!! They loved it!! In activity, we dabbled in some art for the wacky activity to go along with our centers. Although it is not "wacky" I thought for them to go "outside" the box and be creative. In their art special area, I know that they studied Picasso so we made Picasso faces. Here's mine! Don't judge! LOL! And here are some of their's.... Love their creativity!! Tomorrow is Horton Hears a Who day and we will brainstorming ways to be kind to one another!! Always such an important thing to instill in others!! Please link up! Click on the graphic below to go to the Chalkboard and add your link! We'd love to see you!! Hope you were able to grab some files and ideas!! Have a great week!

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Yesterday would have been Dr. Seuss's 110th birthday and there is no better way to celebrate his birthday than by reading. Hope your day is full of fun, books, and reading.

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!

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Be careful what you wish for . . . Over the past couple of months I have been wishing for a snow day. I live in an area that gets very little snow. When it does come, we get out and take full advantage of it. Plus a surprise day off from school is always welcome. Snow-wise, this year was shaping up to be a total dud. Then, about three weeks ago, everything changed. We had ice and snow and then snow again. Leaving us with more snow fun than anyone wanted. Long story short, we haven't been in school for a full week since Valentine's Day. Planning for these interruptions is a bit of a challenge, especially when special events are on the calendar. Our school celebrated Read Across America over the past week. While everything I (and our school) planned for Read Across America didn't happen. We still fit in some fun Seuss inspired learning activities to mark the week. We started by reading The Cat in the Hat and making these writing craftivities to display in the classroom. Students wrote about what would happen if the Cat in the Hat visited their homes. I love how they turned out. We also "played" a round of Seussical Scoot. I placed word cards around the room; some on the walls, some on my shelves, and some on the desks. Students read the words and determined if they had a long vowel sound or not. Then they wrote the words on their recording sheets. My kids love scoot and write the room activities. They think they are playing a game. I'm all for this format for many reasons. It's a great way to get the wiggles out. Of course we had a chance to read a some Dr. Seuss books. We made this quick and simple graph on our white board of our favorite Dr. Seuss books. Friday was Green Day. We read Green Eggs and Ham. We used this book as a jumping off point for a differentiated number order activity. I put together four sets of green plastic eggs that had numbers inside. Students worked in small groups to write the next three numbers, either counting by ones or counting by tens. As a bonus, they colored the eggs on their recording sheets green if the number inside was even. They kids really had a great time doing this activity. It's definitely one I'll use again. We had a green eggs and ham snack. I saw this treat on pinterest. I thought it looked simple enough to pull together on a weeknight and would store easily if we had yet another snow day. To make them, I used pretzels, white chocolate chips, and M & M's. I placed the pretzels on a cookie sheet with two chips on top of each one. I melted the chips in the oven and them took them out. While the chocolate was still hot, I placed an M & M on top. I used mint M & M's. The entire bag was green, which was perfect. I found the perfect shirt to wear for Green Day at Teacher T-Shirts. I ordered a couple of different ones for this year's Read Across America festivities. But, because of the snow, this is the only one I got to wear. The site has several cute shirt options. They not only have RAA shirts, they also have grade level specific tees, 100th Day tees, St. Patrick's Day teacher tees, and more. All and all, I feel like the interrupted week didn't dampen our celebration of Read Across America. RAA is a great way to welcome March. If you would like a FREE copy of my green eggs math activity (you do not have to have a class set of plastic green eggs to make it work) or a FREE copy of my vowel discrimination scoot, click on the pictures below. Well, that's it for now. Thanks so much for stopping by. Best.

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