How
do you pick just ONE of Dr. Seuss’ quotes?
I can’t do it, so here are a few of my many favorites!
“The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” ~Dr. Seuss
“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
~Dr. Seuss
Another great day spent in the
Jumpstart as we celebrated one of my favorite author’s birthdays. I also got to spend time with a great group
of kids, a great teacher (Miss Stacey) and one of my best friends, who decided
to join me, Miss Deb. I just love Dr.
Seuss books, and love the way kiddos are just engrossed in the book, even if
they have heard it 100 times before! I
couldn’t decide which story I wanted to read, but Cat in the Hat seemed to be
the way to go. Of course the Lorax is always a great choice too, but time only allowed
one story. I was surprised when Miss Deb
showed up with a gift for me~ a Cat in the Hat in a box with my own hat and a new
copy of the book for me! I was thrilled
to get to wear it into the Jumpstart classroom.
We read the story, Cat in the Hat, and
when I say we, I mean the students enjoyed chiming in during the parts they
remembered. We completed a sorting
activity, talking about different kinds of weather and what pictures went in
each category. We talked about what we liked to do on rainy days and then
illustrated our rainy day activities and dictated, or helped write, a sentence
about our pictures.
We then made our own hats, the same
shape as the Cat’s, but ours were decorated very differently. We discuss how they were the same and
different from the Cat’s and from each other’s!
And last, but not least, we put an ice
cream cone “hat” on top of a scoop of ice cream. We used various sweets to decorate our
dessert to look like the Cat in the Hat!
Not only fun, but yummy!!
I am already looking forward to my
next visit!
