Green Day

The children had great fun exploring oobleck on "green day"!  Oobleck is made by combining corn starch and water. We added green food coloring to the water before adding it to the corn starch. Oobleck has properties of both liquids and solids. It's name comes from the Dr. Seuss book, Bartholomew and the Oobleck.  While they explored, I asked such questions as:

"How does oobleck feel?"

"What happens when you squeeze it?"

"What happens when you let go of the oobleck?"

Essential Question:

What do scientists do?

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Green Eggs Rhyming Game

Mrs. Levasseur incorporated the Dr. Seuss theme into a rhyming game! Her game was designed to develop the children's ability to recognize rhyming words when heard. As you know, Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, wrote numerous books with rhyming text.  The back of Mrs. Levasseur's game cards looked like the eggs from the story, Green Eggs and Ham! There are many wonderful preschool books with rhymes that you may want to read at home.

MA.ELA-Literacy.RF.PK.2.a: With guidance and support, recognize and produce rhyming words (e.g., identify words that rhyme with /cat/ such as /bat/ and /sat/).

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

We've been having a lot of fun celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday!

The children colored the Cat in the Hat and glued it onto a large piece of yellow construction paper.

After listening to Green Eggs and Ham, they made green eggs out of baker's clay.  Each child added an ingredient and practiced using a roller.

Our classroom door looks great! Each child described his/her footprint (e.g., happy foot, slow foot) after listening to The Foot Book.

On March 2nd, we had a special guest reader from Topsfield Fire and Rescue! The children were very excited to meet Tall Tom and listen to him read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. He was accompanied by Jen, also from Topsfield Fire and Rescue. It was a very special day!

MA.ELA-Literacy.RL.PK.10: Listen actively as an individual and as a member of a group to a variety of age-appropriate literature read aloud.

MA.ELA-Literacy.RF.PK.2.a: With guidance and support, recognize and produce rhyming words (e.g., identify words that rhyme with /cat/ such as /bat/ and /sat/).

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