It's March, and that means that Dr. Seuss fever is hitting elementary schools everywhere! We had pajama day/read-a-thon day last week, and on fun days like this we do what I call "Tasks and Teams." I make a Google Slide presentation and share it with them on Seesaw. You can get the presentation here. They love snack mix, so on special days like this we always make a fun new snack mix as a reward. I looked around the web and Pinterest for a fun mix, but I couldn't find one I liked. I took pieces from a few, and threw in a couple of my own, and "Seuss Snack" was born. Every piece of the snack mix goes along with one of the six Dr. Seuss books we read throughout the day.
We started with the ever so funny "Hop on Pop," which was my favorite Seuss as a child. To earn each piece of their snack the class had to read the book and do an activity connected to it in teams. The task for "Hop on Pop" was to create at least 15 words from the letters on the front cover of the book. I made the templates below using PicKids and they used the copy and edit tool to add their words.
For this book they earned "Hop on Popcorn."
Another book was "The Lorax" and they had to list five ways they would heal the world.
This one earned them Truffla seeds AKA mini fruit marshmallows.
They also read "If I Ran the Zoo," and completed a Mad Libs version of the story that I created. You can get it here.
This one earned everyone yummy animal crackers (the good Barnum kind, not the fake ones).
Their favorite part of the snack was Horton Eggs (AKA Cadbury Mini Eggs), and they completed this worksheet. I found it on the copy machine lol, but you can find it on this page. They used copy and edit in Seesaw here too.
They needed a little pre snack, snack at one point so we graphed with goldfish after reading "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish."
We read "Oh the Places You'll Go" and filled out this worksheet that I found here.
They also made cute Dr. Seuss hats with rhyming words, and read a biography of Dr. Seuss to learn fun facts about him.
Tasks and teams are their favorite days. They always say those are the days where you learn and don't know it because you're having so much fun! Love it!
