Suess Day Three

Since we were closed yesterday we doubled up on some of the activities today.

Our book of focus was to be Put Me in the Zoo (my favourite when I was a little girl) and yesterday's should have been The Cat in the Hat.  So we combined them.

 At the art table we made Cat in the Hat hats but with stripes and spots.  We used the tape painting method to make the stripes.

Put tape on your paper.

Then use paint rollers to paint over the whole paper.

Peel off the tape to see your white and red stripes.

Use a bingo dauber to add your spots.
Or if you prefer no stripes just go ahead and make lots of spots.

Look how high of a swing he takes to make his spots.  He's learned that the harder it hits the bigger the mark (splat) it will make.

This looks very 'Seuss' like.

I also encouraged everyone to wear spots today.  I did and a few others did too.

If they forgot then I set up a "Do you need a spot" centre.

Also our music teacher, that visits once a month, got involved.  She brought sticker spots and handed them out to the families and then sang a song about our favourite spotted shirt.

At the snack table we made a Cat in the Hat snack.

With this snack we learned to read a recipe, recognize numbers and count, use our fine motor muscles when using the tongs, patterning and self regulation (taking only enough and leaving some for others).

Light Table Ideas

It's a snow day here, our Seuss week is on hold till tomorrow.
So I thought I would post some of the ideas we've had for our light table so far this year.

Using coloured overhead transparency sheets we cut them into different shapes so they could build and decorate a tree.

Coloured paddles, similar coloured beads and little wooden spoons to match, sort and move from one place to another.

Old slides, slideviewers and magnifying glasses for discrimination of details.

Pill boxes, little pipettes (eyedroppers) and coloured water to squeeze, load and unload then mix together.

Coloured transparent tiles of various shapes to build and create.

Coloured flat marbles and clear tubes to fill and pour and do it again.

 Coloured gel stickers, flat beads and tongs to create stories.

Old microfiche film, plastic coloured ice cubes to build.

Laminated tissue paper with spider web designs plus black and white flat beads.

Laminated pressed leaves, plastic leaves and acorns from Michaels Craft store and later the children added toy people and animals.

Black and orange flat beads, mini scoop, paper and black and orange markers for pattern building, matching and sorting.

Stuffed squirrels, mini baskets, plastic acorns for colour sorting, one to one correspondence and for feeding the animals.
I would love to hear what ideas you use at your light table.

Seuss Day Two

Today was about feet - The Foot Book was the focus but unfortunately I couldn't find it to read it.  We still had fun starting with following footprints into the room.  I loved the surprised questions from the children -
 
"What are these for?"

 Why they are to walk on, of course.

At the art table they were asked to trace their foot, cut it out and decorate it.

Then we posted them on the hallway wall with a Dr. Seuss quote.

But the most fun and excitement was had on the carpet area.  I had set up a basket with more black footprints, a chart sheet, pencils and instructions.

I encouraged both parent and child to be measured.

Then to count and compare, who needs more feet, who has less - loved the math that was happening.

The following boy was asked this question "Who is longer, you or mom?"  The boy answered "Mom"
Then I asked "How do you know?"  Boy - "There are more."  Me - "How many more does mom have than you?"

So he counted the "more" in mom's line and answered "3".