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Literacy Activities to Celebrate Dr. Seuss

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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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Earth Day Printables and Activities

I know doing printables for Earth Day doesn’t sound very eco friendly, but it does give you a chance to talk to kids about how you can make the classroom or the home a little greener by only printing what you need, using low ink or only black and white printing, printing on the back of other pages, using recycled paper and recycling what you can when you are done.

These Earth Day printables help kids learn about Earth Day or use earth designs.

Pre-K Pages has Earth Day math printables, including a dice rolling game with a recycling theme, graphing, number grouping and sequencing activities.

123 Homeschool 4 Me has a variety of printables for Earth Day including writing prompts, plant life cycle worksheets and links to other activities.

A Dab of Glue will Do has a little printable emergent reader book that explores the basics of Earth Day and some things we can all do to be kind to the planet. You can print it in color or black and white and have kids color it themselves.

Speaking of coloring pages, Preschool Mom has a collection of coloring pages with color versions that you can use as posters in the classroom as well as having kids color the black and white ones.

I love all the printable hands on activities from Differentiated Kindergarten, which help kids build fine motor skills with an Earth Day twist. You’ll find printable mats for use with playdough, geo boards, snap cubes, pattern blocks and Legos, as well as a Q-tip painting activity. You can get these when you sign up for emails.

Here are a few more quick printable Earth Day activities for your kiddos:

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