Dr. Seuss

March 2nd was Dr. Seuss' birthday. Dr. Seuss' books are treasured by families around the world. Most of the children at Meadowbrook had already been introduced to the stories and fell in love with the rhyme, rhythm, characters, and silly plots. The week before Dr. Seuss' birthday the primary classroom was prepared with many works in all areas of the classroom that were inspired by Dr. Seuss' books. In addition to the activities below and reading Dr. Seuss' books, we did Dr. Seuss yoga from Omazing Kids Yoga and made green eggs and ham. I'll post about  green eggs and ham cooking work in a separate post.

 Practical Life Work

Left foot, right foot work was inspired by The Foot Book.

Clipping toenail work was in the care of self area. This work was also inspired by The Foot Book.

Cat in the Hat pom pom transfer with tong work was inspired by the Cat in the Hat. The idea of this work came from Living Montessori Now.

Green Eggs and Ham Egg cracking and whisking work was inspired by Green Eggs and Ham.

Blue fish squeezing and scooping work was inspired by One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. 

 

 

Not pictured: balancing apples while walking on the line work inspired by Ten Apples Up On Top.

Sensorial Work

The Nose Book by Al Perkins is written in the style of Dr. Seuss and is a Random House Beginning Reader Book. It is the inspiration for this smelling jar work in the Sensorial area.

This Cat in the Hat matching work was created for the Sensorial area. The pdf file is available from Joyfully Weary.

Language Work

The idea for There's a Wocket in my Pocket alphabet sorting came from The Princess and the Tot.

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish is filled with antonyms. I wrote the antonyms from the book on fish and created this antonym matching work. The antonym pairs include happy/sad, fast/slow, high/low, old/new, left/right and hello/goodbye.

The Seussville site has many printable activities related to Dr. Seuss books. I cut up this Hop on Pop worksheet and created a hands on language activity.

This is also a worksheet that can be downloaded at Seussville and altered to create a Montessori language work. I cut apart the words on the worksheet so that a child can select the noun that completes the sentence to match the picture.

These alphabet tracing cards were found at Michaels and just needed to be laminated to create a dry erase tracing work.

Math Work

This is a One Fish, Two Fish counting activity. The pdf can be downloaded from obSEUSSed.

This addition work was downloaded from AtoZ Teacher Stuff. I also made addition equation cards to be used with the work. 

This is a measurement work. A child has to select a blue strip of paper that was measured in inches. The child measures the selected strip using the ruler and then constructs a hat out of legos that is the same length.