Dr. Seuss Week

Dr. Seuss Week!

March 2nd is Dr. Seuss' birthday. During that week we celebrated by 

reading his books and doing activities that related to Dr. Seuss.

 Our friends had so much fun!

Dr. Seuss Guess-A-Roo

This game is on the tablet and it has matching tiles to play with. All that we had to do was buy the tiles (I think I get this off Amazon...) and download the free app!

In the app there are 3 different games. We played 'Guess-A-Roo'. In this game the app will describe a tile and the kids have to guess what tile it described. 

Example: Blue square with Cat in the Hat

This game helped the kids learn their colors and shapes! They also got to learn about some of the characters! 

 To make it more appropriate for my class I offered them 3 tiles and they had to choose the right one from there. All of my friends did a great job with this!

After the picked a tile out I had them touch the screen and the curtain went p and showed them the correct tile! They loved touching the tablet!

My friend above is thinking about what tile to choose. In the next picture you can see him selecting his tile! 

Here is another friend thinking about what tile he should choose! 

Our friends love to play outside!

Her are some friends climbing on the cave! When one friend got up there they all had to try! 

Dr. Seuss Special Treat!

Since it was Dr. Seuss' birthday we had to make a special treat! 

We got strawberries and bananas and placed them on a skewer to make Cat in the Hat. 

This project was important for the children's fine motor skills and it gave us a healthy snack! 

Some of our friends really liked the eating part and went right for that!

Look at these friends! They managed to place the babanas (The bananas like to slip out of our hands) and the strawberries on the skewers!  

The bottom banana is Cat in the Hats face (I forgot to pick up marshmallows..) and the strawberries and bananas make the Cats hat!

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish! 

With this activity I printed off fish and the kids were to place the fish in the bowl (Like pin the tail on the donkey). For the first round the kids would take their fish and just place it in the fish bowl. On the second round the kids would spin once and than place it in the bowl. Second round spin 3 times and place in the bow... ect. 

 Here is a friend spinning around and than placing the fish in the bowl! She loved this game!

 Mos of the fish managed to turn upside down... 

 Spin, Spin, Spin! 

       Spin, spin, spin...                                             Where to place this fish...                                             right here!!

Our friends loved this game so much that we left it up in the classroom and they would play with the fishes during free play! 

Our friends loved the Dr. Seuss song Mrs. Erica found!

(This is just a small clip of the song)

There's a wocket in my pocket Dr. Seuss!

There's a red fish and a blue fish in there too!

There's a Cat in the Hat and Grinch and Cindy Lou;

There's a wocket in my pocket Dr. Seuss!

Where has the time gone?

Where has the time gone? 

I am so sorry I have been behind on the blog! I have a lot of pictures posted this time to make up for lost time! We have been busy in the room! 

Marble Painting

We took shaving cream and spread it on the pan. We then took water color paint and put drops on the shaving cream and swirled the paint around. After that we placed a piece of paper over the shaving cream and pressed down genitally. When we pulled off the paper and removed the shaving cream there was nice marble effect of the paper! 

This project was a lot of fun and I think the kids really enjoyed it as well!   

Ice Painting 

This project was very simple to set up. We took an ice cube tray and filled it with paint. Some cubes were just a solid color (red, blue, yellow, orange, green) and some we filled half with one color and half with another (red/blue, red/yellow, yellow/blue). We placed Popsicle sticks inside the paint and we placed the ice cube tray in the freezer over night. The next day we pulled out the tray and the paint froze! We got some paper and went right to work! Some of our friends thought the paint was a real Popsicle and just wanted to eat it. 

Color Mixing

We placed 3 colors in a plastic bag (red, yellow, and blue) and taped it shut. We took white paper and placed white paper on the table and taped the bag over the white paper to the table. We then let the children play with the paint. At first they were kind of shy but they soon came out of that and had an amazing time! 

 

Water Beads

They loved the water beads! I ordered the water beads off Amazon. When they cam in We had to soak them in water so they could expand. We let he beads sit over nigh in the water (Watching them expand during the day was really cool!) We did not want water beads to be all over the room and we really did not want the kids to place them in their mouth, so we found a XL Ziploc bag. We had to tape the bag shut so the beads would not come out. We then placed the bag of beads in the sensory bin so all of the friends could get a chance to play. We will be doing something with the beads again! 

Valentines Day boxes

With Valentines day around the corner we though our friends would need something to place all of their Valentines in (and boy were we right!) We gave out friends crayons and stickers and let them decorate the boxes. 

The Mitten 

My friends love this book! Ms. Christa made the animals out of felt so we could "watch" the animals go inside the mitten. 

 

The Mitten Sensory Bin

We wanted to play with snow but there was no real snow, so we made some. We took shaving cream and baking soda and mied it together. We could compact it like snow or not. Ms. Christa also made the animals out of felt and had a pair of mittens. This project is kind of mess so if you wanted to do it at home be careful... 

After the sensory play we needed to clean up the mat. Our friends were so excited to help with this! They also did such a great job! 

Creating our own Mitten

We printed off pictures of the Mitten and of the animals. We let the kids color their mitten and the animals how ever they wanted to. In the book Nicki wanted white mittens but our friends love colors! 

"Sewing" our mitten together

Here our friends were give some yarn and they "sewed" their mitten together. This is great for their fine motor skills! 

We will be doing this again son as well!