It's that time again!!

Is it really already time for Read Across America? This year seems to be going at warp speed and I kind of need it to slow down just a little bit! Our school celebrates Dr. You Know Who in a big way, and today we kicked off the week by reading The Cat in the Hat and wearing hats to school.
First, we read the story and discussed adjectives that describe the cat. The kids had to give me evidence to back up their adjective. This is still al ittle tricky, but we're getting there! We also made these cute cats to hold our writing. {These are a take on Kim Jordano's cats - love her stuff!}.

We also talked a lot about how Dr. Seuss used rhyming words in his stories. We did a quick little rhyming review by playing a mingle game where they kids had cards and matched up according to the rhymes. Then, we used the cards for our anchor chart. These are from my Rhyme Time Match It Up pack and are in color in the pack, but I was in a rush and just printed them in grayscale on colored cardstock. The kids love playing mingle games like this!

Then, we did some independent practice where the kids came up with two of their own rhyming pairs. They did really well with this {sometimes this is a tricky skill!}. You can get the rhyming page here.

We also started some new "Crazy Cat" workshops and I have never seen my kids more engaged! Don't ask me why, but they are loving our workshops so far this week!
We are working on word familes...

And distinguishing between real and non-sense words...

Some of us are working on beginning sound identification...

Again, we're working on rhyming words...

And, our newest workshop, the sentence scramble was a big hit...

All of these activities can be found in my Crazy Cat pack that I just updated.
Is your school celebrating this week? I'd love to hear what you're doing!

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Vickie

We are having tons of fun at our school this week celebrating Read Across America (even if we did miss Sock Day yesterday because of the horrible flooding we're having!).
Monday was Hat Day and we read The Cat in the Hat. We did a little character analysis, then created these cute cats to go with our writing.

We also made a hat parfait {thank you pinterest}, which the kids loved!

Today was Wacky Wednesday and after reading the story, we used evidence to support that it really was a wacky Wednesday in the story. Then the kids wrote about something they thought would be wacky.

We also read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and graphed goldfish. Why do the kids do so much better when there is food involved? :)

The graphing pages are in my Crazy Cat pack that you can get by clicking the picture below.

I also just posted a new match it up center that focuses on rhyming words and can be used year round...click on the picture for details.

I'll pick 2 lucky ducks tomorrow morning to send this center to...just leave me a comment and tell me your favorite children's book {and make sure you follow my blog!}.

Now, hop on over to Stephanie's blog to see the other awesome bloggers who are celebrating reading this week {and trying not to break copyright law... :) }.

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Vickie

You can get the onomatopoeia page here.

You can get the rhyme time page here.

You can get the people house page from yesterday here.

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Vickie

We are having so much fun with all of our Dr. Seuss activities!

 

I am also so excited about my St. Patrick's Day pack I just posted to TpT. It is my biggest one yet and covers TONS of common core standards. You can click on the picture to see more. :)

 

I finished it just in time for this! Don't forget to stock up and save tomorrow! Happy Leap Day! Click below to get your savings!

 

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Vickie