welcome to seussville!
BULLETIN BOARDS:
1. "Dr. Seuss on the Loose"
2. "Hats Off to Dr. Seuss"
3. "Welcome to Seussville"- Children design whimsical houses.
This is a poem from The Mailbox Magazine (March, 2000) that you can use to have children bring in Dr. Seuss books:
What's that you say?
We're reading Dr. Seuss books.
And we're starting today!
Do you have some Dr. Seuss books?
Send them in-don't delay!
Yes, we're reading his books.
Send them in right away!
May we borrow your books?
Can we look at them please?
Any Seuss book you have
Would fill us with glee!
Please print your name in
Every book that you send.
We'll send the books back
When we've come to the end!
To introduce the unit, children try to guess who is in my hat...and then get to meet the
Cat in the Hat!
The following lessons are broken down by books I use to teach the unit.
Oh the Places You'll Go!
Math:
1. Create color patterns using die-cut hot air balloons.
2. Put die-cut hot air balloons in numerical order according to the number written on each.
3. Put the correct number of people counters on each hot air balloon pattern according to the numeral written on it.
Science:
1.What makes a balloon move? Fill with air and
release to discover answer.
2. Ballon Experiment- Fill an empty water bottle with baking soda. Quickly add vinegar and cover with a balloon. Watch to see what will happen.
Art:
1. Color and cut out hot air balloon patterns. Decorate with foam shapes.
2. “Oh, the Places We’ll Go” Class Book- Each child illutrates a place he or she wants to visit.
Math:
1. Make patterns on hats using buttons, foam shapes, etc.
2. Put number hats in numerical order.
3. Fishbowl Math Mats- place the correct number of Swedish Fish on each bowl according to the number written on it.
Science:
1. Make cookie hats by icing one side of Life Savers and stacking them on a flat cookie covered in icing.
2. Use sense of touch to guess what is in a hat.
3. "Good Home Rules" chart
Art:
1. Make crazy hats using hat pattern and headbands.
Hat patterns:
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pdf.htm?
hat.pdf
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pdf.htm?
hats_small.pdf
2.Seuss-style hats- Cut 4 slits (addition sign) in paper plate and use as hat base. Children paint red stripes on long white paper. When dry, wrap into a cylinder and staple to points of plate.
3. Cat in the Hat popsicle stick puppet or paper bag puppet.
4. Cat in the Hat Fashion Show- Each child colors a new hat for the cat.
Game: Pin the Hat on the Cat
Green Eggs and Ham
Math:
1. “Do You Like Green Eggs and Ham?” graph
2. Create color patterns using plastic eggs.
3. Match number eggs to eggs with dots on them.
Science:
1. Make green eggs and ham using food coloring
2. Mix blue and yellow paint to discover how to make green.
Art:
1. Green collage.
2. Make “egg-xellent eggs” using egg patterns, markers, foam shapes, etc.
3. Laminated placemats with poem:
Sam-I-Am has something great;
A special place to keep your plate.
So bring out your green eggs and ham
And eat them here with Sam-I-Am.
Game- Hot Eggs (version of Hot Pototo using plastic egg)
Horton Hatches the Egg
Math:
1. Put numbered eggs in numerical order.
2. Elephant and Peanut Math Match- Write numbers on elephant patterns and laminate. Write corresponding sets of dots on peanut shell patterns and laminate. Students match elephants and eggs.
Science-
1. Use sense of sound to guess what is in each plastic Easter egg. I fill mine with paperclips, rice, a jingle bell, and rice kernels.
2. List what animals hatch from eggs.
Art:
1. Paper bag elephant- Children draw eyes and create trunk and ears using construction paper.
2. "An egg hatched and out popped a..."- Students create a creature and glue it to egg pattern.
Game: Feed the Elephant- Students try to aim a bean bag into a box decorated to look like an elephant.
Bartholomew and the Oobleck
Math:
1. Graph favorite kind of weather.
2. Put umbrellas with numbers written on them in numeric order.
Art:
Make construction paper crowns.
Science:
Make Oobleck:
1. Fill bowl with 6 cups of water and add green food coloring.
2. Pour 10 cups of cornstarch in water.
3. Mix cornstarch and water thoroughly. If mixture is too liquidy add some more cornstarch.
4. Give a cup of Oobleck to each students.
* 10 cups of cornstarch and 6 cups of water should yield enough Oobleck for 30 students.
Yertle the Turtle
Math-
Students identify the number or shape on each turtle's shell.
Art-
Paper bowl turtles- Children paint paper bowl green and glue on head and leg patterns. Shell can be decorated with mosaic squares, tissue paper, foam shapes, etc.
My Many Colored Days
Math-
Graph favorite colors.
Writing-
Our Many Colored Days class book- Students complete the phrase "On (color) days I feel (emotion) and draw an illustration under it using specific color.
The Lorax
Math-
1. Put seeds in cup according to the number written on the cup.
2. Put the correct number of "truffula" fruits on trees according to the number written on the tree.
Science-
1. Make Truffula fruit salad- Mix mandarin oranges, grapes, banana slices.
2. Plant seeds in cups.
3. Make a "Recyle Man"- Use paper plate for head, newspaper strips for hair, and small ketchup cups from fast food resturants for the nose. (photo can be viewed in "Holiday Projects" page)