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Hats Off For More Dr. Seuss Activities

1-2-3 Come Do Some More Cat In The Hat Activities With Me

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cat in the hat activities, seuss activities, cat in the hat crafts, common core seuss, common core cat in the hat, seuss crafts, seuss centers, place value activiities, grammar activities, seuss bulletin board ideas, seuss poem, cat in the hat bulletin boards, math games, seuss games, seuss math activities, fact families, elements of a story, graphic organizer templates, math centers, math games, seuss games, seuss math games, I've had a few requests for more place value items, so I designed the Cat Hat Place Value Mat activity.  After running off the hat template, you can make it more durable and add some red to the hat,  by gluing it on a sheet of red construction paper, then trim and laminate.

Run off the number tiles on Seuss colors like red, yellow and turquoise.  Each number needs its own color.  Laminate and trim. 

I would do this as a whole group activity, so every student needs 10 of each of the 3 kinds of number tiles.   Store the set of 30 tiles in a Ziplock snack Baggie and make a class set.  By having 10 of each in the Baggie, you’ll have extras incase students lose one.

Have students take turns calling out 3-digit numbers.  Using a dry erase marker, children write that number on the hat brim and then put the correct number of tiles in the appropriate columns.  This is a quick, easy and fun way to whole group assess.

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Students can put the "How many ways can I show the number ______." hat brim strip, on their hat and then place all of the Popsicle stick equations, that make that number, on their Seuss hat.

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Students can show addition and subtraction as pictured, or to expedite things, just addition OR subtraction equations.

This is an easy and fun way to whole group assess a variety of concepts. 

I've included number tiles from 0-120 with a blank sheet for you to program with even higher numbers.  I've also included pages so students can work on fact families.

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Challenge your students to figure out which books I've used.   Click on the link to view/download the I Can Read Dr. Seuss bookmark-writing prompt.

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The packet includes pocket cards, a beginning-middle-end graphic organzizer, plus sentence strips to sequence the story. 

cat in the hat activities, seuss activities, cat in the hat crafts, common core seuss, common core cat in the hat, seuss crafts, seuss centers, place value activiities, grammar activities, seuss bulletin board ideas, seuss poem, cat in the hat bulletin boards, math games, seuss games, seuss math activities, fact families, elements of a story, graphic organizer templates, math centers, math games, seuss games, seuss math games, Students arrange the sentences in the correct order and glue them to their hat. 

Click on the link to view/download the Cat in the Hat story elements packet. 

Finally, because the punctuation pocket cards have been so popular, I decided to tweak this idea, and make the "cards" into stripes for the cat's hat. 

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Run off the sentence strips on white copy paper.   Students underline the letters that need to be capitalized and add punctuation.  They cut their stripes and glue them to their hat in an ABAB pattern, leaving room so that the hat will look like it has alternating red and white stripes. 

If you want, have students re-write the corrected sentences on the red stripes.  So that each students' hat could be different, I made up 108 sentences from a variety of Dr. Seuss stories. 

Completed projects make a nice bulletin board.  A caption could be: "Hammer, slammer, whammer; ___________'s class really knows their grammar!"  Click on the link to view/download the Cat's Hat Grammar "craftivity" packet.

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"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells." -Dr. Seuss

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More Butterfly Caterpillar Activities: Studying Adjectives

Making Adjectives Awesome

Do you need something fresh to go over adjectives with your students or something easy for them to work on independently while you do assessing?  You’ve come to the right place.

butterfly activities, caterpillar activities, grammar activities, adjective activities, adjective lessons, adjective worksheets, writing centers, daily 5 activities, adjective assessment,Since spring has finally sprung, tis the season for caterpillars and butterflies.  I hope your kiddos will enjoy butterfly and caterpillar adjectives.

It’s a nice way to build vocabulary and work on those describing words that will enhance their writing and nail that core standard.

Students color their caterpillar and butterfly, trace the adjectives, add a few of their own, cut them out, sort them to whatever sheet they feel is appropriate, and glue them down.

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This makes a fun writing center or Daily 5 activity.  Click on the link to view/download butterfly caterpillar adjective worksheets.

You may also want to download my new grammar posters to use as anchor charts.  Grammar poster-anchor charts

butterfly activities, caterpillar activities, grammar activities, adjective activities, adjective lessons, adjective worksheets, writing centers, daily 5 activities, adjective assessment,Thanks for visiting.  Feel free to PIN anything that you feel might be helpful to teachers and parents.

 "What a teacher doesn't say...is a telling part of what a student hears." -Maurice Natanson

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