Dr. Seuss Day!

Thursday we got to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday!!!  I always LOVE celebrating this at school for 2 reasons.  1-I love Dr. Seuss.  I mean, who doesn't really?  And 2-his birthday is the day before mine, so it just makes it all the more exciting!  :)

This year I tried a few different things, and the kids seemed to have a good time with it.  We've been reading Dr. Seuss books every day for the last 2 weeks leading up to this special day.  Right after Valentine's Day, we started preparing for Dr. Seuss Day.  And now, it is time to prepare for St. Patrick's Day!  I always forget how crazy and busy this month is!

We read "There's A Wocket In My Pocket" and we made our own special creature to put in a pocket!  SO creative!

 We also made self portraits w/bow ties and Cat In The Hat hats.  In the hats, we put some rhyming words that are from some of his books.  Turned out SO cute!

 We sorted and counted colored gold fish!  We made tally marks, and made a graph to show how many of each color we had.  Then, we got to eat them while we watched a short cartoon of a Dr. Seuss story!

 Of course we had to make our very own cat in the hat hats.  They turned out SO cute and they really took their time for these!

 We always have to do our silly faces.

 They also got to bring their favorite Dr. Seuss story to read to the class.  If they didn't want to read it to the class, then I was more than happy to read it.  The kids LOVED this part and liked being the teacher for a few minutes.  They also did such a great job reading!  I have a class full of wonderful, growing readers!

We had a really fun day and are learning so much each and every day!  I have such a wonderful class and am so grateful to be their teacher.  They are such wonderful kids who really enjoy reading.  Thank you parents for everything you do at home!  It really shows at school too!  :)