Dr. Seuss...Part 2

Shew, today was a nutty day. But I guess that's par for the course for Read Across America Week!

Here's a little peek at our day:

 We worked on our silly sentences from my Silly Sentences packet. We had fun making our sentences. After we did this whole group, students went back to their desk and worked on their emergent reader with these sentences.

While they were working and as we had time throughout the day, I had them read the sentence sheet to me. This is a great way to check for fluency and sight word knowledge. We use them each week with whichever sentence pack we are working on. 

They are loving their morning messages this week! Today we made up silly sentences.

 "My dog can wear a shirt."

 "My cow can wear socks."

 "My horse can pick up a chair."

"My cat can ride a horse!"

Tomorrow will be rhyming with "Hop on Pop"!

Dr. Seuss...Part One

Hello friends! It sure has been an exhausting, crazy fun day! We had a snow day yesterday, so today was our first official day of Read Across America Week. 

We of course wore pajamas today. When the kids get a PJ day, so do the teachers (love my principal!). So we have pajama days anytime we can fit them in! 

Here is a cupcake I was lucky enough to get to eat. They were brought for another K class, but I got an extra one. ;) Super adorable!

 My kinders has a less involved snack. The night before I made vanilla pudding with green food coloring. 2 of the big pudding boxes was enough for my class of 21 (and the kidlets towards the end had a little extra). 

We added vanilla wafers to the middle (the real thing was too expensive, lol) and sprinkles just because.

 The same wonderful parent who made the cupcakes also came with her husband dressed up ready to read to all of the kinders. 

She dressed as Olivia and he dressed as Farmer Brown and read the book to go along with it. 

I LOVE how they chose non Seuss characters! 

Of course we made hats! I'm lucky enough to have a die cut machine at school and one of our few large die cuts is this hat. It already had the lines perforated in so it made it easier for them to do their stripes. 

Well, my friends, that is our fun from today. I plan on blogging about the rest of our week each day if I make it! HA! 

What have you done so far this week?

Our Week In Pictures

Looking back, I don't feel like I took nearly enough pictures! Some things we did that I didn't even get pictures of was when the Boys and Girls Club staff dressed up and came to read to us, a community member dressed up and read to us and service learning students from the high school came to read to us. We are truly blessed to have so many people willing to come and read to our kinders! We also made the Horton handprints, sorted and graphed color goldfish, wrote about the Lorax and made truffela trees {but sadly no pictures}. However here's what I did manage to get pictures of:

 During our Lorax writing, we wore our mustaches. These were a huge hit and most of them wanted to wear them all day!

These were colored and stapled onto a headband to wear as a hat.

 We are foodies in my classroom. We had Thing 1 and Thing 2 jello.

 And we had a "green egg".

All in all, it was a crazy week but so much fun!

Space, Ready for Seuss and a Couple of Freebies to Snag

Last week was a 4 day week. What is it about short weeks feeling like they last FOREVER?! Anyways, last week we did our space unit. Here are a few pictures:

We made a rocket and astronaut to accompany the writing.

Then we made stars using Elmer's glue that had food coloring in it and glitter. (We LOVE anything with glitter in my classroom!)

We had so much fun! Click to check out unit in my little store.

I also created a graphing freebie to use with your space unit. Just click on the picture to snag it! But please remember to leave feedback. :)

I am all ready for Seuss activites this week! I LOVE this week!! We will be wearing Lorax mustaches that my hubby drew for me (all of mine ended up looking like teeth, really creepy teeth.).

 

 

Here are some activities from my Silly Sentence pack that will work with this week's activites:

We will start this out as a whole group activity to create sentences, then try the unscramble sentence sheets from the packet. Then it will be moved into a reading station for students to create their own sentences and write them down. They really love doing these activities!

 

 

And here is a little freebie for you! I found this on pinterest (but the link only took me to Google images so I don't exactly know where it came from). This is so darling and I can't wait to do this with my kinders. Clicking on the picture will take you to my Dr. Seuss pinterest board.

 

 

 I created a template to use (using the cute frame from Graphics From the Pond). Click on the picture to get it from google docs.

More pictures to come as the week goes on!