Dr Seuss Week

March is Dr. Seuss month. His birthday is on March 2nd and so whole month of March is all about him. However we stuck to having a week on him :D We read a lot of his books- luckily I had 6 of them on tape so we listened to them. My kiddos love listening to books on tape and these have music and sound effects to go with the words. 

Rhyming Words:
Since Dr. Seuss books are all about rhyming we listened for rhyming words. After we finished reading the book, we tried to recall rhyming pairs and write them on chart. We did this throughout the week, every time after we read the book.

Rhyming Sentences:
Let students think of rhyming pairs and help them make sentences. As this is new to them, it will require some probing to get them thinking. 

 
Goldfish Graphing:
A fun graphing activity. Provide students with a handful of Rainbow Goldfish and the graphing sheet. Students will sort the fishes according to the color and color in corresponding boxes. 

The graphing sheet is from Oopsey Daisy and can be found HERE

One fish two fish game:
A counting game, this is a fun game to play that goes with Dr. Seuss's One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. I found the game on Mama Miss website and can be found HERE. This game can be used for color recoginition, counting, one to one correspondence or addition. We used it for adding by rolling 2 dies and putting equivalent fishes in our bowl and finding the total. 

Foot Measurement:
This idea is from Oopsey Daisy's Mommy school packet S is for Seuss. It goes with the Foot Book. We traced students foot on a paper and gave them unifix cubes to measure their foot. They wrote how many unifix cubes long their foot was and compared whose was the longest in the group. 

Puzzles:
I created clothes pin game to go with our theme. It can be downloaded from HERE.  
In Pre-K students should be able to number order upto 10. So I created puzzles that require the kiddos to put them in number order to put the puzzle together. 
Horton Puzzle
Lorax Puzzle
Thing 1 and 2 Puzzle
I also found green egg and ham clipart by searching on google. I wrote numbers on the eggs and put dots on the ham. Kiddos had to match the eggs and ham. 

Word Wall Words:
WE created simple words that we chose from Dr. Seuss's book. Click HERE to download them. 

Of course we had a Wacky Wednesday and Crazy Sock Friday. Made the whole week fun :))


Until next time,

Cheers =) 

Valentine's week

Our theme was "All about Love" Our activities rotated around "Hearts"

Story Retelling:
We read the book "Marley Looks for Love" and students had to retell a scene from the story by drawing a picture.

Student Work

Student Work

Heart Addition:
I punched out some hearts to teach addition to my friends in small groups. This was our first time doing addition. I started by asking them to count hearts I placed in the middle. Then I tell them I am going to add 1 more and ask them to count again. I explained to them that they had just done addition and showed them the addition sentence on white board. We did a round of working with a partner and an individual round.

Student Work

Student work

Valentine Number Match:
This a cute little matching game that students can play individually. You can download it from Confessions of a Homeschoolers Blog by clicking HERE

Valentines Flower Number Match:
Another game we used for our independent table is from this free download on Teachers Pay Teachers.           

                                                                   

Alphabet Match and Sound Recognition:
PreKinders has this wonderful Alphabet mats to use for Letter matching on their Valentine Theme page. She has Upper and Lower case mats as well one for beginning sound match. They are pretty with cute little hearts. 


                                   

The Heart- Emergent Reader Book:
I also downloaded this Book from Pre-K Pages. It is a cute little book with simple sentences that we choral read. It uses sight words the and is and is on colors making it easier for kids to read on their own once you have read it together. (Scroll down to the bottom, the book is a freebie in the printable at the bottom.)

Ofcourse we had to have our class Valentine's Exchange a cute little party. Fabulous time after missing school for a week due to snow!!

Until next time,

Cheers =)