Hip, Hip Hooray for Dr. Seuss' birthday!

With the beginning of March, comes the warmer weather, melting snow, and more daylight.  The start of March also welcomes Fuller Meadow's month long Read Across America celebration in honor of Dr. Seuss.  Each week we have special activities planned to coincide with some well-known Dr. Seuss books to encourage children to read everyday at home and in school.  To kick off our schoolwide reading event, we had some help from Thing 1 and Thing 2 and Cat in the Hat.

Cameron was inspired by Mrs. Begin's costume!

The children barely recognized Mrs. Winchell and Mrs. Haines as Thing 1 and 2 and Mrs. Begin as Cat in the Hat!
For Dr. Seuss' birthday last Thursday, we got together with our first and second grade buddies.  In the morning, Mrs. Halligan's class and my class went to Mrs. Begin's second grade room to make birthday cards for Dr. Seuss, buddy read some of his books, and to complete some fun Connect the Dots and maze activities.  The Kindergarteners were impressed with the tent Mrs. Begin has in her room to go along with her camping theme!

Mrs. Begin hung Dr. Seuss' birthday cards outside the cafeteria doors.

Just before lunch, Ms. Klipfel's first graders and Mrs. Halligan's Kindergarteners visited my room so we could watch a BrainPOP Jr. video about Dr. Seuss.  We learned about his life and how he was inspired to write his interesting and funny collection of rhyming books.  After the short video, we split the classes into two groups.  Some children stayed in my room and worked on rhyming activities and others went with Miss Klipfel to the gym for fun movement activities that strengthened their rhyming skills.  After, the groups switched.  
The children love getting together with other classes!  It's so nice to see them making new friends and learning from the older students.

Photos courtesy of Ms. Klipfel

We also had a green screen photo shoot at the end of the day to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday.  It was the first time this year using the Green Screen by Do Ink app.  The students were shocked to see how "cool", "awesome", and silly their pictures could be!

Happy Reading!