Week Long Fun with Dr. Seuss

I enjoyed our week spent with Dr. Seuss as much as Tyler did!  As I gathered materials for our week, I noticed that there were several books I had never read before, "My Many Colored Days,"  "Bartholomew and the Oobleck,"  and "Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?" just to name a few.  Dr. Seuss books consumed our studies in Language Arts, Art, Math, and Science.  It was a fun week!  I've broken down what we did with each book... Enjoy!

"The Cat in the Hat"

Noun Sort

My Thing 1 and Thing 2 who always do the opposite of what I say ; )  I got this cute idea from Lakeshore Learning.

"One Fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish"

Using a printable from, "Teaching with Favorite Dr. Seuss Books," Tyler colored different shapes and pieced them together to make his own Dr. Seuss character; he made a swimming fish named, Ned.  I also took this time to talk about description words.  When I ask him to describe something for me (wanting a adjective), he usually gives me something they do.  Is there a way to help him differentiate the two?!  I'm baffled! 

 Math facts for 5, 6, 7, 8

"Bartholomew and the Oobleck"

Is there such a think that can be a solid and liquid at the same time?!  YES!  It's called an "Oobleck!"  After reading "Bartholomew and the Oobleck," we had a BLAST making Oobleck of our own to play with.  We ALL had fun-- yes, Tyler, Abby and I!!  I don't remember our measurements, but I do know I used the last of our cornstarch and Tyler is begging to make some more soon; I think we used 1 1/4 c. of cornstarch and maybe 1/3 - 1c. of water.... add it very slowly!  We also added a few drops of green food coloring.  Give it a few minutes to mix together, and soon enough you'll have some gooey sticky oobleck!  This seriously was SO fun! 

I loved the simple message at the end of this book-- when you do something wrong and make a mistake never be too proud to say, "I'm sorry."  I must say we made quite a mess, and when I said "I'm sorry" for creating the oobleck that splattered all over the floor, it didn't disappear!  BUT, those Mr. Clean white sponges works WONDERS!

"Green Eggs and Ham"

 Tyler served up some short vowel sound green eggs!  Heather's Heart has a printable version of the short vowel sort, but I made up my own set.

 We played Tic Tac Toe, Green Eggs and Ham style! 

We listed to this book via audio while eating green eggs, of course!

And we made green egg sugar cookies!!

"My Many Colored Days"

This book was released after Dr. Seuss had passed away.  It is a wonderful book if you are teaching emotions and/or colors-- vibrant and simple, and not your typical Dr. Seuss book.  I think my favorite part of the book though was the dedication at the end of the book; Audrey Geisel wrote, "To Ted, who colored my days.. and my life."  How sweet!

"My Many Colored Bubbles" Activity

I didn't get a picture of it, but Tyler completed a Color Poem and we talked about emotions and colors we associate with those emotions (Tyler's answers are in italics):

Orange is a box,

Yellow is my hair, 

Green is the grass,

and brown is Mater,

Purple is Abby's cup,

Blue is a blueberry,

Black is our car,

And red is a strawberry. 

"Oh, The Thinks You Can Think"

Over at Seussville, we found a printable of the book cover and used that to count the "birds" on the cover and then we graphed them. 

"Think up black water,

think up a white sky,

think up a boat,

think of BLOOGS blowing by" (Dr. Seuss)

Tyler sorted out Nonsense BLOOGS and Real BLOOGS; I pronounce the /oo/ as /u/, so really I pronounce BLOOGS as /blogs/-- anyone else?  Am I saying it right?!  Tyler has also been working on the short vowel sound /u/ in his Explode the Code book, so it all worked out!

"The Foot Book"

We've read this book many many times before that Tyler could probably recite it all!   I think I've seen this activity somewhere else before, but I'm not sure where!!  I traced his foot and gathered several materials-- fruit loops, Math U See unit blocks, cars, Inchimals, and duplo blocks; we used those materials to measure his foot. 

"Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are"

While reading this book, we snacked on some Schlottz's Knots while talking about all the things we have been blessed with!

"And, while we are at it, consider the Schlottz,

the Crumple-horn, Web-footed, Green-bearded Schlottz,

whose tail is entailed with un-solvable knots."

This idea came from the "Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook;"  we also got the idea for the Pink Yink Ink Drink from this book, too. 

And there's MORE!  The possibilities with Dr. Seuss books are endless!!

Pup and Cup Activity:   I had Tyler do this activity and had him read the prompts, "Pup on Cup" and then do the action.  He read them all by himself!

Fun with Dr. Seuss Pin Board

Ten Apples Up on Top Math Game (there is also a free Seuss rhyming game, too)

Oobleck fun!

Dr. Seuss Linky @ Momto2PoshLilDivas

Seuss Linky @ Reading Confetti
Dr. Seuss Mini Unit
Wacky Wednesday
Dr. Seuss "Speck" Discovery Lab: looks like a cute activity!