Friday is Dr. Seuss's birthday.
We will be celebrating Read Across America day in the classroom on March 2
& are celebrating at home today.
In honor of staying home and reading we wore jammies. As Liam says, "lets have a jammie day."
He really has to twist my arm on that one.
I was able to shoot a quick video of Liam *reading.*
{ Teacher hat: ON. Liam is obviously not decoding. He has memorized a few words, and knows the story well enough to read it back. He isn't READING. yet. }
I improved a Cat in the Hat snack: an apple cut in a circle, eyes and noses with raisins, ears with whole almonds, whiskers with almond slices, and a hat cut out of a strawberry. The boys stuck it all together with almond butter and assembled it themselves. Wish I were so creative all the time!
I love Aaron's abstract Cat in the Hat.
What's a party without a party hat??
I copied an image of the internet to print.
We colored, glued, and stapled a head band on.
I have made COUNTLESS Cat in the Hat hats and I now vote for whatever is the easiest.
Here is My Little Cat A
(you would have to read "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back to know who cat A is)
&
My Little Cat L
Who doesn't know that Cat L is much, much tinier than Cat A.
Since this was imbedded into Liam's school time we also worked on rhyming words.
Here is the worksheet I made for him.
Liam chose a "rake" and a "cake" as his two rhyming words, drew them in the cat's hands, and then colored the pictures. I wrote his words in the sentence and Liam has had fun reading the sentence that he wrote. 
By this time, it was almost lunch, and my little wiggle buns was having no more of this sitting still. After a few book breaks and Cat in the Hat-pokey, we finished with my last activity, which is something that I love to do with my students.
He begged me to let him blow the pieces when he was done.
I let him.
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