Rhyming with Seuss

Inspired by Dr. Seuss this month in Writer's Workshop we have been working on creating our own rhymes. We used a very popular Dr. Seuss book, Green Eggs and Ham to help us get started. First, Tim Tebow came for a virtual visit and read us the silly story. Then, we decided on our own food that we definitely would not, could not eat! 1st graders came up with rhymes to create a silly poem. Afterwards, 1st graders drew caricatures based on their poem.  Next, we used a new favorite app Chatter PIX to record our voices. Check out our work below!

Read Across America

Read Across America is still going strong here at Fuller Meadow School. Last Friday was silly sock day and today was crazy hat day. Look at our very creative (and a little crazy) outfits.

For this fun event we met with our Kindergarten Buddies to make Dr. Seuss hats about our favorite things.  The top section was for our favorite place to read, middle was our favorite Seuss character and the bottom shows a picture from our favorite story. 1st graders and buddies loved sharing favorites with each other.

Buddies hard at work

We hope you have a silly splendiferous weekend...keep reading for those reading logs!

Dr. Seuss

We have been having a Seusstastic March! Klipfel & Kids is going for the gold as part of Fuller Meadows Read Across America program. As part of Read Across America in Room 116 students went on their first QR hunt around the classroom with all of their Dr. Seuss knowledge. Using the app, Qrafter, students worked in pairs to scan the QR codes with the iPads. Once they scanned the QR code it brought them to a Dr. Seuss question that they needed to work together to answer.  Try scanning the codes below (all you need is any free QR scanning app for an iPhone, iPad or iPod).  

There was lots of Dr. Seuss trivia. Do you know where Dr. Seuss was born or what the first book he ever wrote was? How about the number of words in Green Eggs and Ham? If not, ask your first grader to help.

1st graders and our Kindergarten buddies have been using the month to share our love of reading. For Dr. Seuess' birthday we met and listened to the story Cat in the Hat read to us by the very famous Justin Beiber. Who knew he made school visits? Afterwards, 1st graders and their buddies read their favorite Dr. Seuss books together.  Today, we met with our buddies again and read The Cat and the Hat Comes Back. 1st graders and their K-Buddy then filled in a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting the two books. Mrs. Newton and I were so impressed with how stupendous their work came out.

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” -Dr. Seuss