Seuss Week, Day 1

Dr. Seuss' birthday is comimng up on March 2nd.  We decided to celebrate all week long.  It was such a fun day that I decided not to wait for the end of the week to share everything we are doing.

Thanks to "Pintrest" I found tons of great ideas and free printables.  I also had a few ideas that were all my own.  Our Seussic Bookworms are my own invention.

First we looked at Seuss drawings for inspiration.

 Then we started our worm heads.

 I tried to encourage them to use lots of colors and fill all the space.

 Here they are with their finished heads.

 Next we sat down to read Dr Seuss books.

 I did the reading and they did the listening.

 For the worms body they decorated plates to illustrated to books.  Like a round picture book report.

 They used the book for ideas and because they wanted their pictures "just right."

 I also had them label the plates with the name of the book.

 Here they are with their first book plates, "Green Eggs and Ham."

 The next book was "Go, Dog, Go."

 I found markers so the drawing would show better.

 I let them pick what in the book stood out the most.

 We attached the plates to each other using brads so the would fold up.

 At this point they were antsy to do something different so we worked on a print out I had originally seen on Pintrest.  It was a "All about Me" mini unit from TeachersPayTeacher.  The worksheets were a little advanced for my group (more grown up help required than most of the worksheets we do.)  They enjoyed doing them especially finding their weight using the Wii Fit.

 After that I called in reenforcement, Grandma Kelly read them a final book for the day.

 We drew our final report plates.

 And there you have them, Seuss book worms.

My hope is to add book plates all week.  Hope to beable to show off more later.