Early March means celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday. B and I made a trip to the library, but of course most of the books were already checked out. We managed to get Cat in the Hat, which is one of B's new favorites. I also mentioned this to a friend and she had extra copies of 4-5 Dr. Seuss books so she let us keep them. So of course Green Eggs and Ham has become a frequent read in this house as well!
Cutting Practice
I purchased scissors specifically designed to help teach little ones how to cut/use them properly. They are not safety scissors however, so B can only use them when I am with him and helping. For this activity he cut white & red strips. Then worked on gluing them in place to create the Cat in the Hat.
I purchased scissors specifically designed to help teach little ones how to cut/use them properly. They are not safety scissors however, so B can only use them when I am with him and helping. For this activity he cut white & red strips. Then worked on gluing them in place to create the Cat in the Hat.
Puzzle Time
I used popsicle sticks to create a puzzle using the cover photo from Green Eggs and Ham. B needed some help the first time, but after that he did really well matching the pieces together.
Letter Recognition
B is doing really well with recognizing capital letters, so I decided to create a little Green Eggs & Ham matching game based on this blog. I printed 26 fried green eggs and 26 green ham pieces. On the back of all of the eggs I wrote all capital letters and on the ham I did lower case. Then I put the upper & lower case letters on paper plates. B would choose an egg, state what it was and then go run to the correct paper plate and place it. We only did the egg version of the game a few times and did not get around to trying lower case letters, so I am not sure how he would do with them.
Tracing/Writing practice
Again I had a tracing activity for B to practice holding a pen/marker and writing the letter S for Seuss. I also brought out the letter S magnetic board and the Ss book.
Again he loved using the dry erase crayons
There were a few activities that we did not get to during the week. One was a Cat in the Hat play dough mat. I did not get around to coloring & laminating it, so that B could use play dough to match the colors. I also found an opposites activity based on The Foot Book.
Finally there was a pattern activity sheet. The patterns were given and then individual card pieces were cut out. The idea is for the child to recreate the correct pattern using the individual cards.
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