Easy Activities for Seuss Week

The first week in March is often celebrated as Seuss Week, and March 2 is Read Across America Day in honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday.

It’s a great time to pull out some of his books and pair them with activities, whether you and the kids are at home or in a classroom.

Check out this pairing of Seuss books and activities from We Are Teachers to get you started. Make oobleck as you read Bartholomew and the Oobleck, make a turtle craft for Yertle the Turtle, measure your feet with The Foot Book and more.

These ideas are sure to get you thinking of other activities you can do around the books, or keep it simple with these projects.

I’d love to hear what activities you do to celebrate Seuss!

[Photo via We Are Teachers.]

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Celebrate Reading with Read Across America Day

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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