Oobleck

Today we read Oobleck by Dr. Seuss. It is a really good book! I hadn't read it until this year.
I love the message....we talked alot about how magical these simple words can be....I'm sorry...it's all my fault.
My students are so precious this year. They are truly made with the the most sweet compassionate hearts. I am so proud to be their teacher. 
Ok...so after I melted over how sweet they are
We got down and dirty and made some oobleck of our own!
Plain old cornstarch & water.
Very messy = Very fun!

The Lorax

How cute is this little guy?! We made him and put magnets on the back. My students hung them on their lockers to remind them to not be wasteful or greedy.
Then we all loaded our arms with old papers and took a walk out to the  recycle bin. They were very proud of themselves and are excited about going a little "green!"

Horton Hears a Who!

We made giant elephant ears for Horton hears a who & Horton hatches an egg. Fun!

Can you save whoville?

They are all ready and excited to race and save all of the Whoville's! They can only use chopstick and realy back and forth to see which team can get the most whoville's in their bucket! This was so funny to watch!It is actually harder than it seems for them to use chopsticks---I even got the plastic kids ones! They had a blast!





THEN! when we got back to our room it started hailing tiny little ice pellets outside! The kids all said..."Whovilee's are falling everywhere!" How perfect was that weather for us today?? Love First Grade!

More Seuss Decor Fun!

Our grade loved all the Dr. Seuss stuff we found so much that we are learning with a book a day for 3 weeks! So much fun! I love how the halls of the little ones is looking so Seussy!

Seussy Decorations!

Cute Seuss decorations in my hall!

1 fish 2 fish - blue jello, red fish!

So on tuesday this week I'm focusing on one fish two fish red fish blue fish. I saw this idea and had to try it! I made them for my class and my boys liked them so much I made some for their classes as well. Super easy! I got about 6 cups per package of jello.

Fox in socks

Today we all wore silly socks! We read Fox In Socks & Oh Say Can You Say. We practiced saying other tongue twisters like .....
How much wood could a wood chuck chuck
Peter piper
And my favorite...you need unique New York
They were cracking me up! Then we ate popsicles & got our tongues really cold & tried to say them again.....whoa! We were all getting the giggles from how silly we sounded.
Fun day in first

Green eggs and ham candy

Made these for my sons kindergarten class. Thanks Denise for the stuff!

Wacky Wednesday

Would your like them at school?

Cat in the Hat day!

I'm so excited about Dr.Seuss week!
I think we are going to have to celebrate for 3 weeks to have time to do all my favorite things!
Thing one and thing 2 craft, I tweeked it a little, but got the idea on pinterest!
When it dries we will make a face!

This was our snack today! YUMMY! Red Velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing and cotton candy! (Thank you Fisher and Tracy for the cupcakes!)
I did this last year too! I am not sure where I originally got the idea from, but it is now all over pinterest and easy to find!

Other things we did today...
Watched Justin Beiber read "The cat and the Hat" on you tube!!! The girls loved it so much! i told the boys not to worry because tomorrow we will be watching Tim Tebow!
Played cat/hat tic tac toe!
And of course we squeezed in math, handwriting and writing complete sentences with punctuation and capitals!!! Oh and a visit to the Library!
phew! busy day!