Celebrating Dr. Seuss

As a teacher, Read Across America Day was something that was always celebrated in my school and classroom.  For those of you who don't know, this is March 2 (or the closest day to it if it's a weekend) and is Dr. Suess's birthday.  Since I am no longer teaching, I decided to incorporate the world of Dr. Seuss at home with Derek.  Since March 2 fell on a Saturday this year, we did activities every day for the week leading up to it.  Many of which I found on Pinterest!

We kicked off the week by watching The Lorax and reading the book.  The next day, we made Truffula trees.  We used Model Magic, pipe cleaners, pom pom balls, and a hot glue gun.  Derek got to pick whatever colors he wanted.

The next day we read Green Eggs and Ham and made a snack.  We used pretzel sticks, white chocolate chips, and green M&M's.

The third activity we did was The Foot Book.  We read the book, then traced everyone's feet.  They were labeled "L" and "R" and Derek had to decide which feet belonged to which person.  Then he glued them into a book and we measured them all with Unifix cubes.  I wrote the numbers in pencil and he traced them in marker.  He is not really interested in writing but he is starting to at least trace it if I write it first.

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish is the next book and project we did.  I made a fish bowl out of paper and he used finger paint to make fish in the bowl with hand prints.  Glitter glue was used to make the fish sparkle and to make bubbles.  Googly eyes were added to the fish as well.

Throughout the week we read many different Dr. Seuss books and on Saturday, we watched The Cat In the Hat movie.