Horton Hears A Who

With it being Dr. Seuss week, I came up with different activities to do with different books. We started out with Horton Hears A Who. My students absolutely loved this book. Throughout the book they were coming up with ideas on how they could save the speak. Once we got done with the reading, we talked about character traits with Horton. This is what they came up with....

Once we got done talking about the character traits, it was time to get them up and moving. I took words out of the story and made a hop scotch game out of it. I couldn't get them to stop going through the game. Some of my students I had to help with the words. This activity also worked with gross motor skills.

Another activity I did with them is I took two shower curtains and cut them apart, taped them together. Once that was done I had made pockets in them to be able to insert cards in them. I took words from the story and the kids got to walk like elephants across the curtains.

The students loved it! Tomorrow we are working on The Sneetches!

Happy Learning!
Shannon

The Lorax

Even though Dr. Seuss week is not until next week, I like do reading units with my reading group. For one of my units I started with The Lorax, because it had a movie to go with it and it's awesome to make the students do a compare and contrast between the two. With this one I started searching a website called www.bookpagez.com and found a teacher's guide. From there I went to www.teacherspayteachers.com I found this awesome small unit from Mimi B. that had cause and effect worksheets and a memory match game for rhyming. With working in a self contained special education classroom we will complete the worksheet together.

Here is is what I did for the start of Dr. Seuss week outside my classroom!

Frankenstein

So, I found this awesome art project on Pinterest which of course lead me to teacherspayteachers. I believe the activity was free, but not only did it have an art project that came with it....it had writing it too!!! I started out by reading the two recommended books and comparing theming.

My kids adore the art project and we started that yesterday and today we are doing that today. With being in a self-contained special education classroom, when it comes to writing it's a lot of doing it together and some on there own. I will share when we are done! Here is how their monsters turned out!

Happy Learning!!
Shannon