Cats in Hats

This post is catching up from two weeks ago!  So much has happened I couldn't fit it all into one!

First we began on Monday with our Read at the Beach Party...complete with beach towels, summer attire, and lemonade.

The rest of the week was Dr. Seuss all the way!  In math, we made a mystery picture, identifying numbers on our hundreds chart to discover the Cat in the Hat!

We had dress up days all week to celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday.  Tuesday was Cat in the Hat day, so everyone wore silly hats.  Thank you to Mrs. Kran for bringing in TONS of fun hats for us to wear!  The kids had a blast! (Don't worry, we didn't trade hats!)

In reading we worked on recognizing word families.  Everyone chose a different word family and made a Cat in the Hat word family hat!

We also read If I Ran the Zoo and talked about how Dr. Seuss learned to draw such funny looking characters.  Then we got creative and made our own silly animals for our zoo!

Our class was tasked with making the Green Eggs for the school's Green Eggs and Ham lunch on Friday.  It was lots of messy fun, as you can see!

And finally, the class began on Monday to practice for a reader's theater of the book Green Eggs and Ham, which they performed on Friday for families and their 5th Grade Book Buddies.  Kids were found reading Green Eggs and Ham all week around the classroom, they couldn't put it down!  More than once I heard, "Ms. Deb!  I can read this whole book now!"  Kids having fun reading and becoming more fluent readers?  Mission accomplished!

They did a fabulous job, made some great props, and had a fun Dr. Seuss birthday party with the audience afterwards!!!  Thank you to everyone who came, and to everyone who spent time practicing with your kinder at home.  It really showed!  And special thanks to Trapper, who just happened to have a stuffed goat, a stuffed mouse, and a stuffed fox at his house and was willing to share!