There's Something in My Pocket {Freebie}

This weekend I scooped up There's a Wocket in my Pocket from Target.  Now my darlings love the book as much as I do!  I created a fun response to the book last night.  It's a freebie file!

Lesson...

 

I began the lesson discussing rhyming words.  There's a great brainpopjr video on rhyming for building background.  In the above freebie, I have images of a plane, bag, and a web.  I glued the picture cards on chart paper.  The kids called out various words real or nonsense that rhymed.  Students quickly identified that changing the beginning sound created the funny rhyme.

 

After we charted for the three picture cards, I read There's a Wocket in My Pocket.  We identified each of the words and the rhyming non-sense word used to name the creature. 

For a fun response, I had the kids choose a classroom object.  My students were asked to illustrate the object.  In order to name their creature, they needed to come up with a fun rhyming non-sense name by replacing the beginning sound with another sound.  My kinders were giggling throughout share chair.

Classroom Makeover: Seuss Style

The kids are going to flip out.  I transformed my room into Seussville.  Whatcha Think???

Check out Elisabeth's patterns here.

Sneetches Freebie

Today I introduced the SNEETCHES to my students.  We had wonderful discussion that connected to our Black History Content.  We began with understanding the theme of self worth and acceptance while facing those who are prejudice.  After making deep and meaningful connections, I introduced a few vocabulary words.  We followed our discussions with collecting data and determining if any one group was more important than others.

We followed up with a sheet comparing two different people that LOVED the same things!

Grab your Freebie Copy by clicking the graphic below...

Oh.MY.GOODNESS!  I have to share a secret.  I found an etsy shop that I adore!!!  Jaymee of Bubbles and Bugs makes the cutest shirts.  AND...She will fill a custom order.  Jaymee and I started our discussions on Sunday and I've already received one of my shirts.  She rushed the order so that I can wear this BAD BOY on Friday!!  I highly recommend you contact her to pick up your own cutie patootie design!!!  You can also follower her on Facebook.

I'm looking forward to day four of SEUSS!!

Fox in Socks and The Foot Book Freebie

Today we wore funny socks to celebrate Fox in Socks and the Foot Book for Seuss week.  I searched online for a video of The Foot Book and found this reading of the story.

The kids LOVED his deep voice and expression!

I found this cute freebie on Buggy for Second Grade.

After Seusstastically describing feet with the above freebie, the kids created their own funny feet antonyms.

Flinstone Feet (with warts) and Regular Feet

Animal Feet/Human Feet AND Loud Feet/Quiet Feet

Love Feet, Mad Feet

Bone Feet/Skin Feet

Up Next...Fox in Socks!  Love this book.  We are working on measurement with various units.  The kids are using centimeters, inches, feet and working on 1/2 inches.  The kids got a kick out of the Ginormous Fox in Socks! 

Here are a few pages I made to support our learning.  Hope you find useful!!

Fox-Socks and Foot Books

PS.  I have blog followers from my county and had the GREAT opportunity to go to their school today and observe their classroom.  These ladies are PHENOMENAL teachers!  I really enjoyed both Mrs. McLeod and Ms. Thompson.  My favorite moment was watching the kids play I have, Who Has.  Their kids play everyday.  Students are timed for 3 minutes on their double digit subtraction.  Once they beat the time, their teachers introduce a new I have, Who Has game.  The kiddos broke the record at 2 minutes and 20 seconds!  HUGS TO YOU BOTH!!!  I hope we can meet for lunch in the future.

Seussville in the Making...

Today was a ton of fun.  I wanted to share a few pictures from the freebie I posted yesterday. 

Mr. Weird teaches pigs to moo and cows to fly.

Mrs. Trampoline teaches kids to jump.

Mrs. Starfeel teaches the kids to watch the stars.

Mr. Explosive teaches kids to blow up things!

Mrs. Plastic teaches the kids to recycle.

Mrs. Bouncy teaches the kids how to jump.

I've been working secretly to change my room into Seussville.  My friend Elisabeth Delk has the BEST patterns available in her store.  When she released her top selling unit, I email and asked if she would package just the patterns.  I'm overwhelmed with the amount of STUFF I have to do this week and wouldn't have the time to incorporate an entire unit...although it looks FAB!  She immediately responded with an uploaded pattern pack.  MUCH.LOVE.TO.YOU.ELISABETH!!!!  I projected her patterns on the Elmo and made patterns larger than me...NOT KIDDING!  The kids are really going to flip out!

I plan on finishing the rest of the Seuss friends tomorrow.  When I arrived at school, my vice principal had decorated the workroom with Truffula Trees.  The book of the month for March is The Lorax.  My school does a fabulous job at transforming the school to match the theme of our book of the month.  Check it out...

A Styrofoam ball on a plunger with a boa glued to the the ball.  Easy!!

Diffendoofer Day

Hooray, tomorrow is Diffendoofer Day!  My class is wearing different hair styles and excited to celebrate a week of Seuss.  

Click the graphic to download a freebie file and celebrate with my class!  Link here for a video reading of Diffendoofer Day!

See pictures here.