Seuss & A SALE!

This week we are celebrating Dr.
Seuss.  Each day we have a different theme based on a Seuss book. It’s tons of FUN! Before the week started, I did a few prep things to get ready. First, I made this chart for us to work on word families as we read our books. After we read one of the books, I pass out the cards and students all help to fill them out with that particular word family. I will probably glue them to a chart tablet when we are done for future reference. 

I also printed out these sight words from Tammy at Live Laugh Love. It’s serves as two functions. First, students can sort words in a center by the number of letters in a word. Then, I created a group game for us to play. I printed off a few Cat in the Hats and hid them behind three words. I called on students to pick a word, read it, and take it if they get it correct.  If there was a Cat in the Hat behind the word, they got a sticker. We have played this every day and they LOVE it. It wasn’t rocket science on my part but really anything we can do to practice sight words is fine by me. They words that Tammy created totally fit my Seuss theme too. Love!

All of our kinder classes have been busy doing fun artsy things too. Aren’t these cute?

Monday all students were allowed to wear hats. We read the book 500 Hats. I’m not going to lie, that book was longgggg. What was I thinking making that a theme day? I mean, hats are fun and all but I could have picked a better book.  Several of my kids didn’t bring hats so we made some. It was quick, easy and the loved it. Score! I told them to hide their faces because I was too lazy to put that many smiley faces on their picture. 🙂  This is not our entire class but you get the picture. 

Tuesday we read Fox in Socks. Talk about a tongue twister! We all wore silly socks. They had to promise to wear clean socks and I let them take off their shoes ALLLL day. It was fun. We also talked about what we would do if there was an emergency and we were shoeless (is that a word?).  Always prepared (not really…fake it until ya make it!). 🙂 When we were looking at our library books, one of my students said, “Hey! My book is like our day..about socks!” I screamed out “Text to Self Connection in the House!” Haha! I’ll take any learning opportunity I can get. 🙂

Today everyone dressed like they were 100. I don’t have a picture to share because you really can’t see the cuteness with a smiley face covering their granny glasses and powered hair. Let’s just say there was a LOT of cuteness today. I just rocked my gray roots and my old lady hip!

This afternoon we wrote a letter to the Cat in the Hat. I passed out the paper, wrote the words “Dear Cat in the Hat” on the board, and told the kids to write a letter asking him to come to your house and what you would do. Oh. My. Goodness. I just LOVED their work. They were so funny and creative. Here are a few. I will share more later this week. Holy cuteness batman! I also gave them a small piece of paper to draw their own Cat in the Hat. They were so focused and love this assignment. 

Here is my poem for the week. I just took an excerpt from a Seuss book and added a few pictures.  It works. 🙂

 Oh, I almost forgot, TPT is having a huge sale Thursday and Friday. I have already put my store on sale at 20% off but if you use the code TPT3 you get an additional 8% off. I’ll do the math for you since you are tired, that is 28% off everything in my store. Haha! You can click this pic to go to my store. 🙂

Just in case you didn’t see on facebook (and if you didn’t, why aren’t you following on FB? I post funny stuff there. LOL), I posted a new set last night.  My kids have been really struggling with addition and subtraction word problems so I created a set. Y’all know how much I love my rings that I have hanging everywhere in my room, so what’s one more? I printed, laminated, cut, and hole punched each set and put them on rings for quick review.  I really think that helps me remember to do it EVERY day which is what my kids need. Click the picture to see more!

And, you’re welcome for putting Vanilla Ice in your head for the rest of the night. If you are too young to know what that means, then it’s past your bedtime. Go to bed! Haha! 

Before I go, I will share a funny with you. Well, not so funny when you throw in my dramatics. Haha! So, my sister came over Sunday afternoon. I was meal prepping for the week, already had my work out clothes on and tearing up my kitchen. Anyway, she just stopped by to say hi. You can do that when you live a block away. She was also in her work out gear (I’m pretty sure she sleeps in that though). She said she was going to go run and I asked her if she wanted to go to the track with me. Side note, I NEVER offer to run. Anywhere. With anyone. 

Moving on, she asked if I wanted to go the the trail which is a few miles from our houses. Sure, I said. I had never been. Well, let me tell you that this beautiful trail is from the devil. It totally tricks you. You start and it never ends. Never. I thought it would loop around. Nope. Not so much. We went at 2:30 and granted it wasn’t a hot day but all of those beautiful trees around the trail did not offer an INCH of shade on the trail. 75 degrees started to feel like 100. Lins has one of those fancy watch thingys that tell you how far you’ve gone, whether or not your heart was about to explode, etc. So, I asked her after a bit how far we had gone and she answered ONE mile. What? It felt like TEN. By the way, I walked, she ran in front of me and then back to me and then back in front on me…stopping to do push ups and lunges. If I didn’t love her so much I wouldn’t have been able to resist my urge to kick her when I walked by. Haha!

So, after we had walked 1.5 miles it dawned at me that this stupid trail may never end. How in the heck was I going to get back. Light bulb…I had to turn around and walk back. So I am doing the math in my head. Now I realize that this means I would have walked over THREE miles. Um, I have never done that before. Granted, I have been “training” for a 5K and had been doing 2 miles for the last few weeks and planned on bumping that to 2.5 miles this week but geez louise. I hadn’t exercised at all for the last five days because of bronchitis (steroids and  breathing treatments, yuck!). Lindsay looked at me said, man you are red. Are you going to make it? UMMMM…do I have a choice? Are you going to be able to carry me back? No! So I walked (she continued to run, do push ups, yada yada). And I walked. Praise God I did a breathing treatment right before we left my house. Oh, did I mention that because we thought this whole trail was shorter and we would come back to our cars sooner than later that we did  NOT bring any water with us? Dehydration started to set in. We still had a good 1/2 of a mile to go. I really felt like we had broke down on the side of the road and had to walk ten miles to a gas station. I told you I was dramatic. 

I will say that my sweet sister (with her never ending energy) ran ahead of me (see a pattern here) and went to the car and ran back (again with the running) to bring me water. She said she looked at the bridge and didn’t see me and started to worry. Haha! I made it. 

I walked a little over three miles, Lindsay ran over four. I want to be like her when I grow up. My total time was one hour. That doesn’t seem long as I write it but it felt like eternity. Yes, dramatics. I get that. 🙂  At least now I know that I can survive my 5K. 

So, I am not going to back to less distance. The last three nights I have walked an hour on my treadmill. It’s much easier to do when the sun isn’t beating down you and you have WATER. I hope that in the next month I can just improve my speed. I am terrified of being the last person to cross the finish line at the 5K. Wish me luck!

That’s all I have the energy to type tonight. Remember I have been on the treadmill. It’s a hard life! Haha! I will be back later with more Seuss pics and other stuff we are doing in kindergarten. 

Love and virtual hugs (and shop til ya drop!)!!