Items filtered by date: February 2012
ABC Craftivities
41 pages Uppercase letters for students to do Pinch & Pokes as well as Rip & Tears. These are not only fun ways to help reinforce letter recognition, but they also strengthen finger muscles.
Dr. Seuss: At Family Cat Hat Slider
9 pages. Common Core State Standard: RF.K.2d A fun way to review the At family of words. Students cut out and color their Seuss hat, trace the words,and insert their slider. Also includes several At Family worksheets + 10 At Family traceable word car
Dr. Seuss Day Activities: Time and Counting Games
I think students find it more fun to review report card standards if you give them a new twist by adding them to a theme day.
Slap on a bit of Cat in the Hat clip art and you have a new Memory Match game that will have your little ones wanting to review upper and lowercase letters one more time.
Print them off on two different colors so the game is easier to play. I’ve also made cards for skip counting by 2’s, 3’s, 5’s, and 10’s and counting by 1’s for little ones.
Click on the link to view/download the Dr. Seuss number and letter cards. Play the Cat in the Hat spinner game and continue to review skip counting.
Decide which group of numbers you want students to work on. Run off the Cat in the Hat sheets and pass out some red markers. 
Students play in groups of 2 to 4, taking turns spinning the paperclip.
Whatever number they land on they trace and then write the number on their hat. 
They do not have to do it in any particular order.
If they spin a number they’ve already traced, they lose their turn. The person who fills in their entire hat, or the one with the most stripes colored in by the time the timer rings, is the winner.
Seuss Time is played the same way, only with digital time to the hour. I have also included digital time cards so students can make Itty Bitty time booklets as well.
Click on the link to view/download Dr. Seuss Time & Counting Games
I hope these ideas add some fun to your Dr. Seuss or Cat in the Hat Day celebrations. Scroll down for lots more Dr. Seuss ideas and activities, booklets, bookmarks, centers, art activities and more!
If you have one you’d like to share, I’d enjoy hearing from you, or feel free to comment on one of mine. diane@teachwithme.com
Dr. Seuss: Time & Counting Games
19 pages. Common Core State Math Standard: 1.MD.3 Time For Seuss is a fun way to review time to the hour and skip counting by 2's, 3's, 5's, 10's and counting by 1's.
Dr. Seuss: Alphabet and Number Cards
Dr. Seuss Day Activities: Shape Booklets
Seuss-tastic!
Even though I’m celebrating a theme day like Dr. Seuss’ birthday or doing something special for March is Reading Month like having a Cat in the Hat Day, I still nail all of my report card standards.
I simply design things with that particular theme. To say I LOVE doing that is an understatement! There is just not enough time in the day to make all of the ideas, nor was there ever enough time in the day to get in all of the activities I wanted to do with any of the grade levels I taught!
You may have found it difficult to find things to teach those tough 3-D shapes. Me too, so I designed Dr. Seuss: The Case Of Cat’s Missing Hat. Can you imagine what he’d say if we stuck a beach ball sphere hat on his head?
Hopefully your students will giggle at the craziness, as they trace and then write the words, figuring out that the cat’s hat is a cylinder and the March wind blew it away.
I’ve included word and picture cards so students can make an Itty Bitty booklet. Print off extra copies (words on one color, pictures on another) to make Memory Match games easier to play.
Laminate them for something fun to do when students complete tasks. Click on the link to view/download Dr. Seuss: The Case Of Cat’s Missing Hat
If you’re looking to make some awesome Dr. Seuss 3-D shapes the Truffula tree has a cylinder trunk and a sphere top. I would love to visit Mrs. Lodge’s library to see her lovely Truffula trees.
She made them from inexpensive pipe insulation and tissue paper. 
Click on the link for her step-by-step directions. Dr. Seuss Day Truffula trees.
I also made a flat-shape Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss booklet. I think your little ones will enjoy Cat On A Shape.
Students also trace and write the shape words and then color the shapes.
When everyone is done, read the booklet as a whole group to reinforce concepts of print.
This packet includes a Dr. Seuss hat art extension. Students design their own Cat in the Hat hat. Brainstorm with your students what words rhyme with hat and write all of the At Family words on the board.
Students can include them on their hat. To really make these a keepsake, enlarge their school photo, cut them into ovals and have students glue their hats as if they are tipping them.
Your bulletin board caption: Tipping Our Hats To Good Readers! Hats off to you and all of your efforts in helping to make reading extra special and fun during March is Reading Month!
Click on the link to view/download Dr. Seuss: Cat On A Shape packet.
Be sure and pop back tomorrow for more fun!
I hope you and yours have a delightful Dr. Seuss Day!
Dr. Seuss: Cat On A Shape Booklet
9 pages. A fun way for your students to review the basic shapes and celebrate Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat Day at the same time. Students trace and then write the shape word and color the shapes. Includes shape word and picture cards + 2 Dr. Seuss hat art
Dr. Seuss Cat In The Hat 3 D Shape Booklet
7 pages. A whimsical way to review 3-D shapes with your students! Children will enjoy solving the March mystery of what happened to the Cat's hat while they trace and then write the 3-D shape words as well as the Cat's various 3-D hats. Includes 3-D wor
Dr. Seuss Day Activities: Color Booklets
1-2-3 Come Do Some Seuss Activities With Me
The Cat in the Hat’s hat seems to be the most recognized symbol for Dr. Seuss.
I like using it for a variety of activities during a Dr. Seuss is on the Loose celebration. If you want to make a quick and easy 3-dimensional stovepipe hat out of a paper plate and construction paper Click on the link. Dr. Seuss Hat
Why not have students design a new Dr. Seuss hat. Instead of stripes, why not stars or polka dots? Run off my template on white construction paper and tell students that the sky’s the limit.
They’ll make a cute bulletin board. Click on the link for Dr. Seuss hat template. 
I LOVE dressing up for theme days and make my own costumes via a trip to the Good Will, + some felt, no sew glue and a bottle of puffy paint.
You can easily slap on a character to a jumper, blazer or vest. I found some cute costume ideas, including this adorable little girl who is truly a cat IN the hat at Mom’s Best Nest.
Click on the link to check them out. Dr. Seuss Day Costume Ideas.
Dr. Seuss certainly colors our world with whimsy!
To help you review colors and reinforce color word recognition, you’ll enjoy The Colors Of Seuss On The Loose.
This 4-on-a-page mini booklet, features some of Seuss’ most colorful characters like the brightly colored yellow Sneeches.
Students read the simple sentences, trace and then wrtie the color words.
There’s a color version as well as a black and white template so that students can color the Grinch green and the Lorax orange etc.
The packet includes color words and Seuss hats so your students can make Itty Bitty booklets as well as play Memory Match games. 
Two graphs provide math extensions.
Click on the link to view/download The Colors of Seuss On the Loose Booklet
Dr. Seuss’s My Many Colored Days is the perfect book to read to accompany this activity. It’s one of my all-time favorite Seuss books.
Because it’s about colors as well as feelings, I designed My Seuss-Hat Feelings Booklet.
This is also a 4-on-the-page mini booklet to save on paper when printing and features a blank-faced cat so that students can fill in his emotions.
This is a great writing prompt booklet that will help reinforce the use of adjectives and description as well as review color words and how they are associated with emotions.
Jamie Lee Curtis’ book Today I Feel Silly as well as Glad Monster Sad Monster are also great “Feelings” books with fabulous use of color and make nice comparison contrast stories.
Books are a great vehicle to explain this concept to children and introduce them to Venn diagrams, as well as give them more experience with graphing.
I’ve included 2 Venn diagrams, 2 graphing extensions + an assessment tool in this packet.
I truly believe that “Children don’t care how much you know ‘til they know how much you care.” Little ones have more going on in their young lives than we realize.
Giving this easy assessment every few months can really be an eye-opener for you. Children are not always as happy as they seem.
Click on the link to view/download My Seuss-Hat Feelings packet.
Scroll down for more Dr. Seuss activities. Whether you’re celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday or planning a Cat in the Hat day, I hope it’s simply purrrr-fect!
