Today is Dr. Seuss's 108th birthday and we are having fun! We started by getting out all our Dr. Seuss books and setting them up on the table. Some are Natalie's and brand new and some are Kris and Keri's and are around 25 years old! You can tell which is which! We put up streamers, made a Happy Birthday poster and hung up our posters and papers too. I put on my crown and Cat in the Hat socks, Koda put on his Cat in the Hat tall striped hat and his How the Grinch Stole Christmas shirt and we were ready! Breakfast first with, of course, green eggs, green pancakes and ham. We added a little science in there, talking about our current unit on reversible and irreversible changes. We then took a reading break, me reading the Dr. Seuss autobiography for kids to him and he was reading his favorite, Marvin K. Mooney, Will You Please Go Now! We did some fun word games and a cloze activity, read Green Eggs and Ham and In A People House and painted Thing 1 and Thing 2 using our hand prints. Lunch break was spent watching the video The Cat In The Hat and singing along to the songs. Love that show!
After the break, we read four chapters of Koda's book club selection, The End of the Beginning, by Avi. It's a silly little book about an ant and a snail and, while I think some of the round about speaking goes over his head, he is enjoying it. It's the first book he has offered to read besides a Magic Tree House one. He was, by this point, all Seussed out and, I have to admit, so was I. He finished the day by using his beloved glitter glue to make a pennant for Dr. Seuss and then we called it a day. I need to go to the grocery store and he wants to "do his thing" before Uncle Fred picks him up for the Baltimore Blast soccer game tonight.
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