Dr. Seuss Weekly Activities

It's been another month and I apologize.  I am now 34 weeks pregnant and it is taking its toll.  I am trying to prep for a sub and a new baby all at the same time.  Here is what I am looking like now-a-days:

 

I wanted to give you all a peek into what we did over Dr. Seuss week last week.  As his birthday was Saturday, we celebrated all week long in preparation for this great author's birthday.  Some activities included: 

A special snack each day to go with a book. 
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish - colored goldfish
If I Ran the Zoo - animal crackers
Green Eggs and Ham - scrambled green eggs and ham cubes (of course ;)
The Cat in the Hat - Jello and whipped cream Thing 1 and Thing 2 cups that I made.  Here is a pic:

We also made 2 class books, one related to The Cat in the Hat where they wrote about what they would do on a rainy day and another one related to If I Ran the Zoo where they wrote about what animal they would be and why.  I compile these into class books that I rotate through until everyone has had it, then it goes into the classroom library.

We also made colored people with liquid watercolors to go with My Many Colored Days.  We then wrote a sentence stating which color we would be and how it makes us feel.  Here is how they turned out:

 

We also made Thing 1 or Thing 2 paintings.  These turned out sooo cute!

American Education Week Revisited and New Happenings

Well, I didn't quite make my goal of one post per day for American Education Week.  Here is what we did the rest of the week as a school:

Monday - Whole school read for 15 minutes
Tuesday - Thank you notes to someone who works at a school
Wednesday - Reading round-up ( we dressed up like cowboys/cowgirls)
Thursday - Volunteer Read-A-Loud in classrooms
Friday - My favorite book writing assignment

Here is a pic of our great guest reader and another pic of Ava dressed in her cowgirl gear.

 

Other happenings in our classroom have included our most recent inquiry project, which we did Friday.  The students came up with our question, "What can neighbors do to have fun in the park?" and they had to put together a puppet show to answer that question. They worked together in groups of 4 or 5.  Here is them working hard on their puppets:

Next we went to work practicing our parts. Then came the fun part, putting on the show.  I put some desks together and put coats over them to help "hide" the students. Their plays were a-dor-a-ble.  Some had stage fright at first, but they were so cute.  Next time I will have to take some video to post!  This group was playing basketball in the park.

 This group was playing on the playground equipment.  I love the slide and swings!

 This group was walking their dogs in the park.

Onto other news in my life....I am excited to tell everyone that we are expecting a baby boy mid-April.  I was so thrilled when we found out on Wednesday.  Everything was great on the sonogram, with no abnormalities that they could see.  Our little boy has some long legs, which explains why his foot was in my ribs all of Thursday afternoon ;)