Our theme this week was "Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss" and we focused on the letter U, number 18 and color orange.
We read this week: The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back by Dr. Seuss
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Our question of the week was "Who is your favorite Dr. Seuss Character?" We've read some Dr. Seuss already this year, so I quickly reminded them of the different characters that we have met.
We balanced like The Cat in the Hat. It was fun to have them try balancing on one foot while doing all sorts of silly things with their hands. We jumped and hopped on one foot, and even tried to dance!
The kids each decorated a Cat Hat with crayons and tissue paper. I love the individuality!
After reading "One Fish, Two Fish..." we went alphabet fishing! I love when I get to use a project more than once. It makes all the time making it so much more worth it! I wrote the capital and lowercase letter on each fish, and when the children "caught" one, they had to tell us what letter it was and think of a word that starts with it.
Each child got to paint a Truffula tree for our class mural. I even made a vine while getting it ready!
We made and ate green eggs and ham!! It was so fun!
The Cat in the Hat even came to visit with us!
We talked about the color orange, and we sang "We love orange"
"We love orange, we love orange,
yes we do, yes we do.
Crunchy carrots so good to eat,
Juicy oranges, oh so sweet!
Pumpkins ready for trick-or-treat,
we love orange."
(C) Jean Warren www.preschoolexpress.com
I got it from here!
yes we do, yes we do.
Crunchy carrots so good to eat,
Juicy oranges, oh so sweet!
Pumpkins ready for trick-or-treat,
we love orange."
(C) Jean Warren www.preschoolexpress.com
I got it from here!
When we focus on a color I love to do "color hunts" in our classroom.
Each child takes a turn to walk
around
the classroom and bring back
something that they found that is orange. Here is what
we
found.
When we worked on our number activities, we practiced writing the number and word for the number 18.
I
made these worksheets that reinforces the one to one concept. The kids
practice writing the number and have to color a square for each picture
that they see.
For
our letter activities, we used our handwriting sheet for the letter Uu from this book.
This book has great pages for helping the kids work on the letter recognition of both the capital and the lowercase versions of the letter, and they are always a little different, which is great!
My kids did a great job of turning shapes into an underwater picture! I cut out the different shapes for them ahead of time, they picked three, and then let their imaginations run wild! It came from this Letter of the Week book.
From this Alphabet on Parade book, I got the idea to have the kids practice the concepts of "over" and "under". I drew and umbrella and 12 small pictures for them to cut out and glue either over or under the umbrella. I let them pretty much do their own thing on this project and then tucked it away in their portfolios.
From Sounds Like Fun, I got the idea to buy little paper party drink umbrellas and say different vowel sound words. Anytime they hear a long or short u sound, they had to put up their umbrellas! So fun. Bonus, they got to keep the umbrellas and were thrilled!
I know I put a lot of updates on here about our pumpkin plant from the Halloween post, but it has not yet ceased to amaze me with it's growth! We are still getting new shoots... and this week, we got our first blossom!!! Really for a project that was so easy to do, the kids just filled the pumpkin with dirt and as they started to decompose I planted them under dirt, we are fascinated every day!
Up next week: "Shamrocks" and a focus on the letter Vv, number 19, color green and circle shape.
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