This is one of my favorite weeks of the whole school year! This week celebrates the love of reading, and it really motivates the kids to read. Even those that love to read anyway get excited to celebrate Dr. Seuss. The older kids don't really read the Dr. Seuss books anymore, but they love this week when they get to be silly and enjoy the amazing rhymes.
Dress Days
Each day of the week, we focus on a different Dr. Seuss book. The staff and students dress up different ways each day.
- Monday - wear orange or a mustache for THE LORAX
- Tuesday - wear stripes like the cat's hat or wear a hat for CAT IN THE HAT
- Wednesday - wear crazy socs for FOX IN SOCKS
- Thursday - wear read and/or blue for ONE FISH, TWO FISH, RED FISH, BLUE FISH
- Friday - wear green for GREEN EGGS AND HAM
Guest Readers
The purpose of this week is to place a focus on reading. While I do that all year long, I really try to pump this week up with extra motivation. We had some fabulous guest readers this year, and the students absolutely loved the opportunities. They always hear their teachers or me reading, but this week they were able to see that other adults enjoy reading also.
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| The superintendent read ONE FISH, TWO FISH, RED FISH, BLUE FISH to a first grade class. |
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Our district library director brought Patsy Swine and read with our kindergarten class.
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Our area director read to a first grade class, WHAT PET SHOULD WE GET?
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| Our principal reads THE LORAX to 2nd grade classes. |
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| Our assistant principal reads GREEN EGGS AND HAM to kindergarten. |
Read-A-Thon
To celebrate Read Across America, we have an annual Read-A-Thon. Our goal this year is to read 33,000 minutes and to raise $1,000 to purchase new books for our library.
Breakout
The most fun was putting together the BreakoutEDU games for 4th grade and 2nd grade classes. I found a Seuss themed Breakout, where Thing 1 and Thing 2 get upset and lock away the cat's hat. One of our 4th grade classes solved it in under 10 minutes! I kid you not!!!
The clues were scattered around the library, thanks to Thing 1 and Thing 2! They hid the keys underneath a stuffed Cat in the Hat, and even hid the secret blacklight flashlight in the locked box. So the students had to find the key in order to find one of the clues that was written in invisible ink. Other clues were hidden inside the book, CAT IN THE HAT. While other clues had to be researched using PebbleGo or the online encyclopedia.
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| 2nd graders broke out, found the hat, and a few surprises in the box. |
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