Dr Seuss' Birthday/Read Across America Day

Today, we celebrated a very special birthday. We celebrated Dr. Seuss' 108th birthday. We did several Dr. Seuss activities. In reading groups, we made Cat in the Hat "hats" with -at words written on them.
Here are some of them holding up their "-at hats":












We also made special Cat in the Hat masks that they loved.
Here are two, cute class pictures with the Cat in the Hat masks :


Later we enjoyed reading Green Eggs and Ham and watching the original, cartoon version of The Cat in the Hat. In math, we had lots of fun with a Cat in the Hat glyph. Here are the questions to this glyph:
1. Are you a boy or a girl?
Girl- Color the bow pink
Boy - Color the bow red
2. Do you like Dr Seuss books?
Yes- Red and White hat
No- Black and Blue hat
3. Do you think cat and hat rhyme?
Yes- Color the nose black
No- Color the nose orange
4. Do you like Thing One and Thing Two?
Yes- Color the cat's face brown
No- Leave the face white
5. Do you want the Cat in the Hat to visit your house?
Yes- Color the cat brown
No- Color the cat black
Here are some of them holding up their finished Cat in the Hat glyphs:












At the end of the day, we went to Mrs. Johnston's kindergarten room to celebrate Read Across America Day with 3rd grade. The 3rd graders partnered up with the kindergarteners and read Dr. Seuss and other books to them. It was a lot of fun and very sweet sight to see. This 3rd grade class was my first kindergarten class, so it was a very heartwarming and special event.

Egg Experiment

On Monday, we watched a neat DVD from Colgate about Dental Health. Then, we did an egg experiment. We took five eggs and put them in five, different cups of soda. We made a guess (hypothesis) about what would happen to the eggs, if we left them in the cups for one, whole day. We had many good guesses including:
The eggs becoming rotten
The eggs developing a hole
The eggs turning black, green, or purple
The eggs cracking
Someone even thought that the eggs might blow up
We wrote down our guesses and then waited until Tuesday. When we took them out of the soda on Tuesday, the eggs were brown! We talked about why they turned brown. I also explained that these eggs were like their teeth. I told them their teeth would turn brown, if they drank too much soda. Also, the experiment showed them how important it is to brush their teeth twice a day. Next, we took toothbrushes and toothpaste and tried to brush the eggs white. It was very difficult. Again, it reinforced brushing their teeth daily instead of letting food and drink sit on their teeth for long periods. Each student even received a toothbrush from my dentist to help with their daily brushing. We had a lot of fun with this experiment. We even wrote about the results. They are becoming such good writers, and I really enjoy reading their writing.
Here are some of their guesses and results:








I think that it will be rotten, when I get up and it will be brown.

Brushing the eggs with toothbrushes and toothpaste






She did a good job brushing. It's looking much whiter.




This is fun but very hard to do! Some friends even thought it was a little bit gross. :-)