dr. seuss

This week we are learning with One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish! Yesterday, I started the week off by reading the book to the kids. Then, they made up a rhyming story (3 sentence minium) and drew a picture to go along with their rhyme.
Ella, age 5 - "A flat mat had a flat cat. The cat had a flat bat. A bat had a rat on back."


Gracelyn, age 6 - "This is Flink. Flink likes to drink drink drink. Flink is a pink gink. Flink likes to wink wink wink."


They also did some patterns (abab, aabaab, aabbaabb) on a cute worksheet that I found on What the Teacher Wants.

read to learn ~ chrysanthemum

"Until Chrysanthemum started kindergarten, she believed her parents when they said her name was perfect. But on the first day of school, Chrysanthemum begins to suspect that her name is far less than perfect, especially when her class dissolves into giggles upon hearing her name read aloud. That evening, Chrysanthemum's parents try to piece her self-esteem back together again with comfort food and a night filled "with hugs, kisses, and Parcheesi." But the next day Victoria, a particularly observant and mean-spirited classmate, announces that Chrysanthemum's name takes up 13 letters. "That's half the letters in the alphabet!" she adds. Chrysanthemum wilts. Pretty soon the girls are making playground threats to "pluck" Chrysanthemum and "smell her."

We read this book last week and did a couple of learning activities to go along with it. We did a text to self writing activity and talked about adjectives.

writing prompt -
"If I could choose any name, I would choose ____________________ because____________________________________."

adjectives -
We took each letter of the girls name and thought of an adjective that started with that letter.

Great
rowdy
awesome
crazy
intellegent
elegant

Elegant
loving
loveable
awesome

*I would love for you to share a read to learn activity that you have done with your child/children!