Today's Classroom Activities :

Theodore Geisel a/k/a Dr. Seuss

Celebrate Theodore Geisel's birthday, who was born on March 2, 1904 and is better known as Dr. Seuss!

Eating Green
Health/Nutrition March can be a confusing month, nutrition-wise, as it's both Dr. Seuss' birthday month — a popular time to cook green eggs and ham — and National Nutrition Month. Have your students brainstorm the names of green things that can and should be eaten and green things that should not be eaten (or eaten only occasionally). Take some surveys about which green vegetables are the most popular in your room. Are there students who have never tried some green foods, like Brussels sprouts or kale? How many like green M&Ms?

Dear Dr. Seuss
Writing For Read Across America Day, have your students write letters to Dr. Seuss. Have samples of his books in the room to help them get started. If Dr. Seuss were alive, what could they tell him about how books have changed in 50 years? What's new in the world? What might he include in his books today? Do you see cell phones in his books? Do his books make sounds or light up?

Birthday Hats
Reading/Art In preparation for Dr. Seuss' birthday, create the traditional Cat in the Hat striped hats with variations. Make the stripes different colors and have children label the colors. In each stripe, list the title and author of a book read, or the characters, setting, plot, genre of the book. You can also use this favorite decoration as a teaching tool.

Dr. Seuss Activities
Cross-curricular activities for 15 Dr. Seuss books, including The Foot Book, Dr. Seuss' ABC, If I Ran the Zoo, The Lorax, and more!

Initial and Final Sounds With Dr. Seuss' Hop on Pop Using flip books, students will learn how to recognize that rhyming words have the same final sound but different initial sounds.

Discovering the Properties of Oobleck
In this lesson, students will work with a substance called Oobleck. Children's literature can be incorporated into this activity by reading Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss. Oobleck has the properties of a solid and a liquid. Students will be amazed at what they see!