We celebrated a birthday last week! March 2nd was Dr. Suess' birthday, and what better way to honor him than to read and celebrate some of his wonderful books!? We started out our week by reading "The Cat in the Hat", and made this cute Thing One and Thing Two handprint craft to go along with it.
For a math center, we had his "Happy Birthday to You" book on display, and made some cake! We had cakes numbered one to ten, and had to add the corresponding amount of candles to each cake. The kids enjoyed singing Happy Birthday to Dr. Suess as they decorated the cakes.
We also had a reading center this week with our bean bags, and several of Dr. Suess' great books! My daughter McKenzie is off-track right now and read several of the books to the kids during centers. We like to read, we love to learn, Dr. Suess is the best, let the pages turn!
We read his "ABC" book, and then used our stamp pads and alphabet stamps to stamp our letters in alphabetical order.
Dr. Suess has so many great books, that it was hard to choose which ones to spotlight. At this center, we honored his 'Tooth Book" and made playdough teeth for this man's toothless grin.
We sorted our colors with these cute fish bowls that I found here. We used colored goldfish, so of course, we had to eat some too!
For our homework sheet, I sent home an -at word ending practice sheet. We also practiced writing these words in school too. Writing is fun ,writing is cool, we love to do it, especially at school!
Great job Eliza!
And Lexi too!
In honor of Dr. Suess' "The Foot Book", we practiced tying our shoes this week. For those who don't know how to tie yet (most of us), we practiced lacing our laces in a letter X.
We had a puzzle center that had 4 Dr. Suess puzzles, along with a Dr. Suess matching game.
And, we had a great time at this center trying to balance these jars like the Cat in the hat balances. We stacked them high, we stacked them low, we stacked them on our head, you know!
And, we just had to try out making some Oobleck from Dr. Suess' "Bartholomew and the Oobleck". You can make your own at home with just some cornstarch and water.
This video shows its unique consistency.
Check out our Horton craft from "Horton Hears a Who".
Dr. Suess isn't the only birthday that we celebrated this week.....
We also had the pleasure of singing to this super cute 5 year old!
Happy Birthday Lexi!
and
Our stars of the week this week were:
Dominic
and Addison!
We are having so much fun learning about our friends!
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