1-2-3 Listen and Follow Directions, and Make a Shamrock Glyph With Me!

A glyph is a quick and easy way to whole group assess listening and following directions. 

The photo shows a completed glyph by a girl.

Glyphs are also a fun way for students to collect and analyze data.

When everyone has completed their shamrock glyph, hang them up on a bulletin board, or hallway wall.

Using the data collection sheet, students choose a partner and interview them.

They ask as many questions as they need to figure out their partner's glyph. 

To make the game more exciting, encourage students to use as few questions as possible, to see who can solve the mystery with the fewest questions.

The packet includes 6 graphing extensions + a data collection sheet.

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"The man who does not read good books, has no advantage over a man who can not read good books." -Mark Twain

1-2-3 Come Be a Leprechaun and Make a Venn Diagram With Me!

Making a Venn diagram is an easy and fun way for students to practice the concept of comparison and contrast.

It's also a time-saving way you can learn more about your students, and make an adorable March bulletin board at the same time.

Students partner up and discuss their similarities and differences and then make their Venn Friend Diagram.

To help them think of similarities and differences, I've included a list of questions students can ask their partner.

To make the Venn Friends extra cute, have students color their leprechaun and add a photograph of their face.

Click on the link to view/download the Leprechaun Venn Friends packet.  I also made some Venn diagrams comparing the different holidays, including St. Patrick's Day.  Click on the link to grab this FREEBIE.

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"Be the light that helps others see." -Unknown

1-2-3 Come Feel the Wind and Watch the Clouds With Me!

March is known as the windy month, so many of the books we read had to do with that theme. 

I wanted to have my students transition to a related activity after we read The Wind Blew, by Hutchins as well as It Looked Like Spilt Milk, so I designed these 2 easy readers. 

In The Wind Blew, students enjoy cutting and gluing the pictures to their matching pages.

This packet includes a graphing extension and 2 optional choices for the flag and balloon pages.

Click on the link to view/download The Wind Blew packet.

The second booklet, has to do with clouds; an interesting and fun science theme. 

Since clouds take on different shapes, I thought it would be fun to make them into 3D shapes.

Students trace & write the shape word and then glue the appropriate cloud to the page.

This packet includes 2 graphing extensions, and is a great activity to do after reading It Looked Like Spilt Milk, or Eric Carle's Little Cloud.

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"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it, nothing great was ever accomplished." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

1-2-3 Come Go Away With Me! 240 Ways To Travel

One of the themes that quite a few people have requested is transportation, although I have bus, train, and Seuss's, Oh The Places You'll Go activities on the site, working on specific activities for transportation was on my "To Do" list. 

I wanted to think up as many vehicles as I could, in order to compile an alphabetical list of them. 

After several hours of research, I came up with a list of 240 vehicles + 26 means of getting from here to there. 

When you're looking for vehicles that start with the letter Q, X, and Z you are bound to increase your vocabulary. 

Do you know what a palanquin, quinquireme, xebec or zebu are? I didn't;  I so enjoy increasing my vocabulary, and hope you and your students will too.

You can use the list to help build vocabulary (ask students to circle all of the means of transporation that they have used in one color, the modes they've never tried or heard of in another, and finally the modes of transportation they'd like to try in yet another color. )

Introduce a selection of words a day and have students write them in a vehicle dictionary.  Any words that they don't know, they should look up and then add the definition to their booklet.

You can also feature a daily vehicle word and then discuss it.

Click on the link to view/download the List of 240 Vehicles.

After I completed my list, I chose some favorites and designed a Vehicle Alphabet Anchor Chart Poster.

Hang it up in your room, or run off copies for your students. You can use it as an "I Spy A..." game to help increase letter as well as word recognition.

Click on the link to view/download the Vehicle Alphabet Anchor Chart Poster.

Once I had these things done, I made the easy reader Transporation Alphabet Booklet.

I used over 40 sight and Dolch words, added rhyming words, and incorporated lots of Common Core State Standards. 

With the help of picture clues, students read the simple  sentences, circle the capital letters, and add end punctuation.

Remind them that they are reading from left to right, top down, and that there are spaces between the words, and you've covered even more Standards.

Students also trace and write the mode of transportation word, cut and then glue the pictures to their matching numbered box in the booklet.

Also in this packet, is a Transporation Class Book.  It's a nice writing activity to go with Seuss's Oh The Places You'll Go story.

Click on the link to view/download the A to Z Easy Reader Transporation Booklet.

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"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children." -Charles Swindoll

1-2-3 Go Places With Me!

This Seuss-hat bucket, provides 2 different March, writing prompt "craftivities," perfect go-alongs with Seuss's Oh The Places You'll Go book.

On the large bucket, students think of 5 places they want to go.  They write the place, followed by what they want to see there, or what they want to do there.

On the small bucket, students think of all of the things they'd like to do. 

This can be for the month, year, in 5, 10, 20 years, or a "bucket list" of all they want to do before they die.  They include this time commitment on their hat.

Students can color their large bucket to look like an upside-down Seuss hat, or color the stripes the color scheme of the story: pink, powder blue, purple, light green, orange and yellow.

Completed projects make sweet bulletin boards for March is Reading Month or Dr. Seuss. Click on the link to view/download My Bucket List Seuss Writing Prompt Craftivities

Seuss Hat Candy Bar Wrappers:

If you're looking for a Seuss treat to give you students, I designed 4 different, Seuss sayings, candy bar wrappers. 

You can print them in color or in black and white. They fit a Hershey candy bar.

I made them this size so that you could slip in any other smaller size candy bars, a stick of gum, lollipop, packet of M&M's/Skittles etc.

If you don't want to tuck in a treat, then use the printed half as a bookmark.

These make a sweet surprise left on your students' desks, or use as a reading incentive or reward for March is Reading Month.

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"To teach, is to learn twice over." -Joseph Joubert

1-2-3 Come Learn Contractions and Color Words With Me!

I wanted to make another activity to help students learn and practice contractions.  Since spring is just around the corner, I thought I'd design contraction eggs.  You can use them for Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham lessons or someting related to spring or Easter. 

Because they are often seen "cracked" open, the halves aspect of the egg was a perfect vehicle to show the contraction on one half of the egg, and the words that are involved, on the other half.

If you need a transition activity after reading Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham, then run the templates off on various shades of green.  You could also revisit this activity for St. Patty's Day too.

If you'd like it to be an activity students can do through out spring, then run off the templates on a variety of bright and pastel colored construction paper.  You can keep the laminated eggs in a basket.

I've included a blank set of eggs for you to program with upper and lowercase letters, word wall words, spelling words, equations or whatever else you can think of, to make games for your students.

The "Contraction of the Day" poster egg, is a way you can feature a different half egg each day. Students figure out what contraction or set of words should be on the other half. I've also included over 20 other ideas that you can use these contraction eggs for, in a tips list, which includes games like Kaboom.

Click on the link to view/download the Egg Contraction Packet.

Another egg activity that I think your students will enjoy is an egg color matching game.

Students can match either the colored egg yolk to the color word, in a face up fashion, or flip the cards over and match a colored egg with a color word egg, as a Memory Match game.

If you have plastic eggs, have students twist them apart and match the colors and color words that way.  Students can also play "I Have; Who Has?"  i.e. "I have the color word egg yellow.  Who has the yellow egg?"

Click on the link to view/download the Egg Colors Packet. 

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"Why fit in, when you were born to stand out!" -Dr. Seuss

 1-2-3 Come Fly Away With Me!

This adorable hot air balloon is a quick and easy writing “craftivity.” The 3 sides of the balloon each hold a different writing prompt, that your students will enjoy doing.

One side says, A place I’ve been is . . .  I like it because . . . Another side says: My favorite place to go is . . . because . . . Finally, the 3^rd balloon says,  A place I’d like to go is . . . because. . .

To make these cuties, simply run off the balloon templates on a variety of colored construction paper.  If you want the balloons to be of the same color scheme as the book, then you need to run off pink, powder blue, light green, orange, yellow and light purple.

Students take one of each writing prompt and complete it.  Remind them to have spaces between their words, use proper capitalization and include end punctuation, so that you're covering those common core state standards as well.

Afterwards, students fold the balloons and glue, ½ of each one, to the other, so that the balloon now has 3 sides.   This is a lot easier for students to do, if you demonstrate how it’s done.

If you look closely at the photograph I took in the mirror, you can see the green side of the balloon in the picture as well as the back of the basket.

Run off the basket on brown construction paper. Students need a right and left basket, so that when they glue it together they fit, so that you can also view the basket from the front or back.

Punch a hole at the top of the basket, on either side. Tie a piece of yarn on both sides. So they don't show, these ends will be tucked inside the rectangular opening of the balloon.

It's nice if students can have 2 of the same photo, so their "body in the basket" also has a front and a back.  Insert yarn ends INSIDE the base of the balloon. You may want to use a bit of Scotch tape.

Punch a hole in the top of the balloon, in the middle, and tie on a piece of yarn. These look wonderful suspended from the ceiling.  Click on the link to view/download the Oh The Places You’ll Go Writing Prompt Balloons.

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“The task ahead of you is never as great as the power behind you.” -Unknown

1-2-3 Come Tell Time With The Lorax And Me!

I think the Truffula trees are really cute.  When I was paging through the book, The Lorax, I loved all of the pastel colors.  What a pretty place to visit.  

The trunks seemed to be a great vehicle for digital time, so I decided to design a telling time game, with a Lorax clock, that would be nice practice for telling time to the hour. There are 2 different games in the It's Truffula Time packet.

In the first game, students play in groups of 2-4, taking turns spinning the Lorax clock.  Whatever analog time they land on, they trace the digital time on their Truffula tree trunk. 

Students can also use the Lorax spinner clock, to write numbers on their mini-clock recording sheet. For this game, they can substitute dice for a spinner, rolling first 1 die for clock times 1-6.

After they have filled in all of those times, students then roll 2 dice, and add them together, to get the times greater than 6. 

If you want students to practice more analog time, simply add a small paperclip with the larger one, to make hands on the clock. After students have recorded their number, they show that time on the Lorax clock.

Students can use your sample clocks that you've made for the game, or if you have time, allow students to make their own clocks.  It's a great way to whole-group assess.

You can run the Trufulla tree tops on copy paper and have students color, cut and glue their tree top to their digital answer sheet, or to expedite things, and add a bit more pizzazz, you can run the master off on yellow, turquoise and pink construction paper. 

Students choose a top and trim it. Click on the link to view/download the Lorax Truffula Telling Time packet.

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"...and you will succeed!  Yes! You will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.) -Dr. Seuss

1-2-3 Come Shape Up With The Lorax And Me!

Since the Silly Shaped Penguins have been such a huge success, I thought I'd try to make something similar, with a Seuss character.  The Lorax, because he's already an oval, was the perfect fit.

You can make a set and simply use them as shape anchor charts, for a fun review, during Seuss Week or March is Reading Month, or you can have students choose their favorite shape and make their own. 

I've included 2 different mustache patterns for you to choose from.  One says, "I mustache you what shape am I?" and the other one is plain. 

I personally love the play on words and think students will think that is sort of cornball fun too.

If you want to add a bit of keepsake value to their shape, have them pick a partner, so they can trace each other's hand, on a folded-sheet of yellow construction paper. 

Keeping the paper folded, they only have to cut once, making 2 hands that are perfect for a Lorax mustache.

Start off by reading The Lorax and asking students what shape he is. Show them your samples and ask them which they like the best.

You could graph this for an easy math extension.  Simply hang the Lorax shapes on the white board, and write students' names under whatever one they like the best.

Tell the students that the Lorax ate some leaves from the Truffula tree and has Truffulaitis, which made him lose his normal shape. 

They can help him return to the real Lorax, by completing the Lorax Shape Mystery easy reader. 

Show your sample and explain what you want them to do.  i.e. circle the capital letters, add end punctuation, trace and write the shape word, trace and draw the shapes etc.

As children complete their Lorax easy reader, they can make a Lorax shape of their choice.  Run the templates off on orange paper.

Children can add wiggle eyes, and accordion folded, construction paper arms and legs.  Suspend the Lorax shapes back-to-back from the ceiling, or mount them on a pastel blue bulletin board, flanked by truffula trees.

Your caption could be: "Reading Really Gets Us In Shape!"  Click on the link to view/print the Lorax Shape Packet.

Finally, another sweet Lorax "craftivity" is making a mustache/moustache to launch a writing prompt.  It's an interesting and "Suessical" way of doing things that I think your students will enjoy.

For an adorable bulletin board, take everyone's photograph wearing their mustache and put it next to their writing.  Your bulletin board title could be the same question you are asking: "We mustache you, would you save a truffula tree?" 

Flank the board on either side, with 2 colorful truffula trees, made out of strips of neon-colored tissue paper, and rolled up green bulletin board paper for the trunk, that you can stripe with brightly colored boarder.   Click on the link to view/download the Lorax Writing Prompt packet. 

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"Fill your house with lots of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks." -Dr. Seuss

1-2-3 Come Do All Sorts Of Fun Activities With Elmer, Horton and Me!

I am so excited to share this 42-page Horton and Elmer activity packet with you.  I've been working on it all week, and it's finally done! Woo Hoo!

I've tried to design things around quite a few Common Core State Standards so you'll be able to review all sorts of things.

Since students have to compare and contrast, explain data etc.  I thought it would be fun for students to compare 2 of my favorite elephants: Horton and Elmer.

The packet includes:

• Horton 3 character, setting, event cards
• A Horton begginning, middle, and end graphic organizer or anchor chart
• Horton retell the story bookmarks
• Horton who, what, why, when, where, how anchor chart
• Horton who, what, why, when, where writing prompt craftivity
• 15 "Fix the sentence" (with capitalization and end punctuation) Horton cards.
• Label the Horton bookcover anchor chart activity.
• 2 Venn diagrams. 1 compares Horton Hears a Who with Elmer.  The other compares the character of Horton with that of Elmer.
• 2 Hexagon adjective practice activities.
• An Elmer Color Spin Game
• Black & White, and Color Spinners
• 4 graphing extensions
• An elephant mask craftivity
• A find the letters elephant craftivity
• Tally mark activity
• 30 elephant color cards + a cover so that you can make an Itty Bitty booklet. Great for playing all sorts of games.
• Rhyming-alphabetical order worksheets with 47 words that rhyme with who and
• A Horton-Elmer Lollipop certificate of praise.

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"A person's a person no matter how small!" -Horton, from Dr. Seuss's book Horton Hears A Who