Literacy Activities to Celebrate Dr. Seuss

February 23, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Dr. Seuss’ birthday is celebrated as Read Across America Day (or week) in early March. It’s a great time to have fun with rhymes and Seuss-style silliness. Here are some great literacy activities inspired by Dr. Seuss.

If your little ones are working on letter recognition, grab this Cat in the Hat inspired alphabet game printable from Tot Schooling. It includes both upper and lower case letter options, with printable cards you can mix up so kids can match and cover up the letters with counters, pompoms or whatever you have on hand.

Or try a red fish, blue fish alphabet matching game like this one from Growing Book by Book. This one is DIY because it’s not a printable, but it’s still pretty fast to pull together, especially if you don’t do all the letters.

Learn more about word families with these printable word family hats from This Reading Mama. Of course there’s a -at one, but there’s also an -an and -ap list. When all the words that have those letters are laid out, it makes a red and white striped hat.

For older kids, Minds in Bloom has a fun set of Seuss-inspired writing prompts. These touch on lots of different books, so you can focus on a book that you’ve read together or pick a prompt at random. Or do this writing prompt and art project in one inspired by Oh the Places You’ll Go from Schooltime Snippets.

Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? is a book full of fun sounds. You can learn more about and play with onomatopoeia with this fun printable pack based on that book from Rock Your Homeschool (signing up for emails is required). You can use them to review words, match the thing with its sound, or to help make up stories.

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Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

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.

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