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Objective: Students will be able to determine and match rhyming terms.

Standard: RL.K.2: With prompting and support, orally recognize key details from a summary to demonstrate understanding of the lesson learned in the story.

Assessment: After students finish matching up the rhyming words, we will go over the correct pairs as a class so students can check their answers.

Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rhyming-Words-Rings-Picture-Word-Cards-869223

Instructions:

1. Students will be put into groups of three or four.

2. Each group will be handed a bag of different three or four-letter words, they will work as a group to pair up the rhyming words together.

3. After they finish pairing up the words, they will put them in order starting with bigger words and ending with smaller words.

4. When every group is finished with the activity, we will go over the correct answers together as a class.

Supplies Needed: Laminated paper copies of the rhyming words, scissors.

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Objective: Students will be able to create a stack of apples made out of play dough.

Standard: K-PS2-2. Analyze data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the balance or direction of an object with a push or a pull.

Assessment: Students will make a steady stack of "apples" and show the teacher when they are finished.

Link: https://inspirationlaboratories.com/play-dough-apple-stacking-activity/

Instructions:

1. The class will begin by going over the book "Ten Apples Up On Top" By Dr. Seuss

2. One cup of play dough will be passed out for each individual student.

3. Students will take out the play dough and roll them into balls to resemble apples.

4. They will then carefully stack the apples on top of each other until they run out of play dough or until they can't stack anymore on top.

Supplies Needed: Copy of "Ten Apples Up On Top" by Dr. Seuss, red play dough.

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Objective: Students will be able to create their own play by using a Dr. Seuss book of their choice for reference.

Standard: RL.K.1: With prompting and support, ask and answer explicit questions about key ideas and details, and make logical inferences to construct meaning from the text.

Assessment: Students will perform their play in front of the class for a participation grade.

Instructions:

1. Students will be put into groups of three or four.

2. Each group will be called on to pick one Dr. Suess book (The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, The Sneetches, and The Lorax"

3. Every group will have 5 minutes to come up with a script that relates to their chosen book.

4. They will write down their script on the paper provided, and then they will perform their play in the front of the room.

Supplies Needed: Book copies of The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, The Sneetches, and The Lorax

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Objective: Students will be able to follow along with the movement break and participate in the dance.

Standard: K.1.NL1. Explore non-locomotor skills, using different body parts

Assessment: The teacher will be facing the students and making sure every child is following along with the activity.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO4usGxuar0

Instructions:

1. Students will go over the book "Green eggs and Ham" by Dr.Seuss.

2. The teacher will ask students to stand up from their seats and make sure they are not in arms reach of another student.

3. The "Brain Breaks; Green Eggs and Ham Song will be presented on the big screen in the front of the room, students will watch carefully and follow along as best they can.

Supplies Needed: Internet.

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Objective: Students will be able to use teamwork to create Oobleck.

Standard: 1-PS4-1. Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that dense materials can have different textures.

Assessment: After students finish making their Oobleck, they will demonstrate how it works to the teacher by showing how it can be both a solid and a liquid.

Link: https://www.naturalbleachliving.com/how-to-make-oobleck/

Instructions:

1. Students will be put into groups of three or four

2. Each group will be given a cup of water, green food coloring, cornstarch, and water.

3. They will add 8-10 drops of green food coloring into the cup of water, they they will pour that into the cornstarch.

4. With their spoons, they will carefully mix them together until it starts to solidify.

5. After the Oobleck is complete, they will take it out of the bowl and start playing with it.

Supplies Needed: One cup of water, green food coloring, one cup of cornstarch, mixing bowls, and spoons.

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Objective: Students will be able to use counting skills to separate and count different colored cotton balls.

Standard: KY.K.CC.2 Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence within 100.

Assessment: After students complete the activity, they will be asked how many red cotton balls they had, and how many white cotton balls they had.

Link: https://continuallylearning.com/dr-seuss-activities-for-toddlers-and-preschool/

Instructions:

1. Students will be grouped into groups of three or four, each group will be given a red cup (the "Cat in the Hat) hat), white cotton balls, and red cotton balls.

2. Students will work together to separate all the white balls in one hat, and red balls in the other hat.

3. After they are finished separating the different colored balls, they will count how many there are of each color.

4. When they have completed the activity, they will return the hats and the cotton balls to the front of the classroom.

Supplies needed: Red solo cups, white paper, white cotton balls, and red cotton balls.

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Objective: Students will be able to identify and state what they want to be when they grow up in the "Oh the Places You'll Go" activity.

Standard: (K.I.UE.2 C): Construct responses to compelling questions about oneself and one’s community.

Assessment: Students will be assessed by stating what they decided what they want their future career to be on their hot air balloon, the hot air balloons will be collected and pasted on a display paper.

Link: https://lessons4littleones.com/2018/03/02/dr-seuss-oh-the-places-youll-go-craft/amp/

Instructions:

1. At each table, paper plates, tissue paper, construction paper, glue, and scissors will be passed to each student.

2. Students will crumple the tissue paper squares and glue them to a paper plate,

3. Then, they will glue 2 strips of construction paper to the back of the plate

4. After students finish making their hot air balloon, they will write what they want to be when they grow up on the construction paper.

5. All the hot air balloons will be collected and put on display.

Supplies Needed: paper plates, tissue paper cut into squares
glue, construction paper, and scissors. A copy of the book "Oh the Places You'll Go" too.

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Objective: Students will be able to use motor skills to cut and paste paper and tissue paper to create a Truffula Tree.

Standard: (MA:Cr3.1.K) Form and capture media arts content for expression and meaning in media arts productions.

Assessment: After students complete their Truffula Tree, all the trees will be collected to make a Truffula Tree forest. Students will learn how

Link: https://www.aboutamom.com/truffula-trees-craft-dr-seuss-the-lorax/#google_vignette

Instructions:

1. Students will be grouped into groups of three at each table.

2. Paper plates, tissue paper, and Popsicle sticks will be handed out for each table. Students will put their name on the back of their paper plate

3. With the guidance of the teacher, as a class the students will pick one color of tissue paper for their Truffula Tree and glue it onto their paper plate.

4. After students finish gluing their paper on their plate, they will glue a Popsicle stick on the back of their plate.

5. After everyone completes their Truffula Tree, they will be collected by the teacher and put on display while the class follows along the reading of "The Lorax"

Supplies Needed: Pink, yellow, and blue tissue paper, paper plates, Popsicle sticks, marker, and a copy of the book "The Lorax".

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Objective: Students will be able to use finger paint to create a Thing One and Thing Two painting.

Standard: (MA:Re8.1.K) With guidance, share observations regarding a variety of media artworks.

Assessment: Students will complete their painting by drawing either "Thing One" or "Thing Two" on their painting, and then they will find a partner who has the matching pair.

Link: https://musthavemom.com/dr-seuss-crafts-thing-1-and-thing-2-handprint-painting/

Instructions:

1. Students will be split into groups of three. Each table will be given a plate of red paint, a plate of blue paint, sheets of paper, and a paintbrush.

2. Students will put their name on their paper, with the assistance of the teacher, each student will carefully dip their right hand into the blue paint and their left hand into the red paint.

3. Then, students will carefully leave a blue handprint on top, and a red handprint upside down below the blue handprint.

4. While waiting for the paint to dry, we will read "The Cat and the Hat" by Dr.Seuss.

5. When the paint has dried, the students will use markers to draw a face and, "Thing One" or "Thing Two" on their painting.

6. After they complete their art, thing one's will pair up with thing twos.

Supplies Needed: Red paint, blue paint, plane white paper, paint brushes, black markers, and "The Cat in the Hat".

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Objective: Students will be able to understand and follow along to the reading of "The Sneetches"

Standard: P.IQ.G3.A: With guidance and support, apply academic learning to the real world by making connections with personal interests.

Assessment: Each student will be asked the question "How did the behavior of the star-belly sneetches affect the plain-belly sneetches?"

Link: https://racismnoway.com.au/teaching-resources/anti-prejudice-activities/kindergarten/sneetches/

Instructions:

1. Students will be called on individually to walk to the center of the room and sit in a circle

2. The teacher will introduce the class to the book, "The Sneetches", by restating that we have been learning about Dr.Seuss

3. The book will be ready out loud by the teacher.

4. After we finish reading the book, the teacher will ask, "How were the plain-belly sneetches treated?"

5. Each student will be called on individually to go back to their assigned seat.

6. When everyone has returned to their seats, the teacher will ask the students, "How did the behavior of the star-belly sneetches affect the plain belly sneetches?"

Supplies Needed: "The Sneetches" book by Dr.Seuss.