Dr. Seuss Week

[LORI_COLANGELO]

I just did a cute activity for Dr. Seuss Week. Sally and her brother have to start by Thing 1 and Thing 2. They have to clean up by traveling to all the items to pick them up and take them to the Cat in the Hat before their mother gets home.

Here’s the link to the pics.

Dr Seuss.docx

[James_Nesbitt]

Read Across America is next week! Does anyone have any new lessons to share?

We are starting a month-long, Social Emotional Learning unit the following week, so I adapted a lesson using The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss.

LESSON SLIDE DECK
This lesson will focus on identifying the author’s message, or central idea. This story shares an important, RELEVANT, message that is as true today as when this book was written in 1961… “Sneetches and Sneetches and no kind of Sneetch is the best on the beaches”
After the story, students have the choice to work through a “Read Across America” Packet with sheets from Seussville.com and/or complete the VEX Star Machine Activity.
VEX Star Machine Activity

Students are given three, McBean Bucks to spend on trips through the Star Machine. In the machine, they may add or remove a star from their VEX 123. Depending on their current star-state, they can only use the “Plain-belly” or “Star-belly” Playground. In the last 10-15 minutes, I plan to introduce a large playground for ANY robot.
I am excited to try this out as a social experiment with the students! I will let you know how it goes and update you with some photos of the students working.

[Danielle_McCoy]

Hi James! So I asked @Tina_Dietrich to come in to read a book to my class as a guest reader! After reading the story, I printed out various Dr. Seuss images for the students to code to. We have been working on positional words, so I had the students start at the Cat in the Hat’s hat and then code to the picture that was above, next to, below etc.

[Jason_McKenna]

Hi @James_Nesbitt Did you complete this activity? Seems great - I would love to hear how it turned out.

[James_Nesbitt]

This quickly turned into a fun social experiment! Different classes approached this activity in many different ways. Some classes hoarded their McBean bucks to take them home afterward, some chose to use all their money on trips through the Star Machine, and some classes began bartering and created their own classroom economy with the extra bucks. It was an interesting window into the unique classroom cultures that the students have developed over the school year!