Our 7pm Dr. Seuss Date Week - Green Eggs and Ham

Our second Dr. Seuss book resulted in some sore toes (mine), loads of green playdoh bits on fingers and clothes (hers) and green bean soup in tummies (including the dogs).

This is Dumpling and my favourite title so far. I love the easy rhythm to the story with the rhyming words while Dumpling loves Sam's funny antics Sam. Its such a simple story but from a literature-based home learning front, there's so much to discuss:

1) Being adventurous / less picky on food

2) Being polite

3) Patience

4) Perserverance

I found a great guide here which is a sample lesson from a scholastic book. It was a great resource for us as we discussed about eggs and the storyline. For those of you who are adventurous with food, here's a link to some recipes. :)

Addiitionally, The Pizza Hut BOOK It! Program in America also featured this book with loads and loads of free printables. The Pizza Hut BOOK IT! Program motivates children to read by rewarding their reading accomplishments with praise, recognition and pizza. BOOK IT! is simple for the teacher to use, flexible because goals match reading ability, and fun because achieving a goal is a great reason to celebrate. BOOK IT! was created in 1985 and currently reaches over 10 million students annually in America.

BOOK IT! runs every school year from October through March. The teacher sets a reading goal for each child in the class. A tracking chart and reproducibles are included to make it that much easier. As soon as a child meets the monthly reading goal, the teacher gives him or her a Reading Award Certificate.
For Feb/March, Pizza Hut had Tim Tebow a famous quarterback, who suffered from dyslexia, read his favourite title - Green Eggs and Ham. To thank Tim Tebow for his participation, Pizza Hut also made a donation to the Tim Tebow foundation.

Most of the printables here were from BOOK It!

Edit: Here's another link where to quite a few of Green Eggs and Ham resources.

This is the main page on Apples4teacher on other Dr. Seuss resources. Homeschool share also has Printables on various titles from Dr. Seuss and you can view them here.

 

Dumpling working on and "checking" on her maze

Story sequencing from the Pizza Hut Book It! Program

This was one title where we did more discussion and played with loads of playdoh

Tada! Her version of Green Eggs and Ham with a bit of help from mum :)

I suffered from sore toes after playing this game with Dumpling as she was very competitive and kept bumping into me. This rule of this game is the players are waiters and someone would read out the customer's orders (yellow goat ordered a blue banana) and we would have to search for the items and then place the right order on their plate. The faster player gets a coin. So you can imagine how rowdy this game got after a while. I do not have any photos of us playing since I was one of the players. Ha!

We finished off this 2-day session with the cartoon. I bought this compilation of cartoons from Amazon which has 4 titles: The Cat in the Hat (which my next post will be on), The Lorax, Green Eggs and Ham & The Grinch grinches Cat in the Hat.

You can also watch the clip here:

I personally thought that this literacy program by Pizza Hut is a wonderful wonderful idea and I wish that the Pizza Hut here could do something like this too. Being a family diner, not only is this great publicity for Pizza Hut to encourage family activity but this also encourages early literacy through school and also family bonding from reading together. I am definitely contacting Pizza Hut here on this. Watch this space! :)

Our 7pm Dr. Seuss Date Week - The Lorax!

The very first book that I read with Dumpling which we both really liked was Hand hand fingers thumb. The rhyme was so catchy and the story, fun. (Hah!)

Dr. Seuss' stories are quite whimsical and in my opinion, not everyone's cup of tea. Dumpling and I like some of his titles though not all too. Lorax is one of those that has a storyline and the rhyme in it is great fun. With that, I decided to plunge head start into my Dr. Seuss week using this theme.

To save time, I downloaded a ready pack from 2 teaching mommies, I also created a mini extension pack for Dumpling to do since I intended to spread this over two days.

All ready!

The below is one of the activities from 2 Teaching Mommies and when Dumpling reached the last second row, she had a giggle fit. Lorax had a blue mustache. :)

In addition to the printables, I took the chance to discuss a bit of science - recyle, reuse and replanting. We also planted some vegetables in a ready packed kit given to Dumpling by her school last year and will be working with Dumpling on tracking the growth in a journal

The below is part of the extension mini pack I did for some rhyming and some literacy exercises

Day 2

Decided on more Math (and food) fun. The forest ground was a slice of banana chiffon cake and the mini marshmallows were the truffula tree tufts. Ha ha ha

Great for motor skill as she picked them / poked them with toothpicks

Math patterning which she was absolutely delighted with. Look how pretty the colours are :) Just like the story

I extended this at the very last minute this evening for more creative fun. The idea was to have Dumpling doodle and invent something she thinks can help Lorax to protect the trees. So she made this machine which in her words "have spikes all around to protect the Truffula trees from the enemies". :)

Edit: Here's a full Lorax eBook to share:

Lorax video to share:

Lorax will be hitting our big screen too! Here's a trailer!

Can you guess which title we will be working on next?

Theodor Seuss Geisel ( /ˈɡaɪzəl/; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo LeSieg and, in one case, Rosetta Stone. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss)