The Foot Book

• Create your own Foot Book by painting your students feet
• Count the number of feet in your class, then recount by 2s.
• Play Twister.
• Graph shoes according to characteristics.
• Play a matching game with different types of feet.
• Have students measure their footprints with Unifix Cubes, paper clips, or any other small objects
• Play Opposite Simon Says

Dr. Seuss’s ABC

• Play matching games with upper and lower case letters.
• Matching beginning letter sounds to pictures/objects.
• ABC Bingo
• Line up in ABC order by first name and last name.
• Make an Alphabet class book.
• Read other ABC books.
• Write lettings in shaving cream after reading
• Have students come up with as many things as they can for each letter
•  Have each student create an imaginary animal, draw it, and name it.

Green Eggs and Ham

• Make green eggs and ham in your class.
• List green foods.
• Play rhyming Bingo
• Discuss animals that lay eggs other than the chicken.
• Create a class book with students drawing themselves eating green eggs and ham and writing how it tastes
• Sequence Sam’s green eggs and ham adventure using sequencing cards
• Discuss prepositional phrases, find some in the book, and record them on a chart
• Have students write their own eating adventure about a food they don’t like
• Make a persuasive poster to encourage people to eat green eggs and ham.
• Come up with words that describe foods you do and do not like. Then come up with synonyms.
• Draw pictures of different food items that are unusual colors

Horton Hears a Who

• Put a speck of dust on a microscope slide and examine it.
• Order pictures/objects in by small, smaller, smallest.
• Discuss the value of all people regardless of differences.
• Rewrite the story from Horton’s point of view.
• Discuss similes. Come up with multiple to describe the size of something
• Investigate ways that we can make our voices louder / travel further.
• Write a diary that tells the day in the life of a Who.
• Have students draw what they think the Whos look like.
• Compare sizes to the size of an elephant and a speck of dust.
• Talk about the different types of punctuation used in the story.

The Lorax

• Discuss the importance of trees for people and animals.
• Design a poster to discourage the destruction of the rainforest.
• Plant a tree.

• Make your own truffula trees
• Learn to recycle:  Have students draw or cut photos of everyday items from magazines and glue them onto index cards. When the deck is made, kids sort cards into trash or recycling bins.
• Write a story using “If I were the Lorax, this is how I could help our Earth…”
• Find examples of alliteration in the story
• Identify the rhyming patterns used on each page in the book
• Make an advert for a Thneed, explaining the different ways that it could be used.
• Have students write their own sequel to the book.
• Write a letter from the Lorax to the Once-ler about why he should stop cutting down trees.

Cat in the Hat 

• Discuss “home” rules for being at home when parents are gone.  Do all your students know their addresses in case an emergency occurs while they are there alone?
• List things you can do on rainy days in the house.
• Count and list objects that the cat can balance.  Have a relay race balancing an eraser on the heads of students.
• Write the story from the Cat’s perspective.
• Ask students to design a machine that would clean up their rooms.
• Teach rhyming by stacking words written on red and white paper to make the cat’s hat.
• Have students write a story about what they would do if Thing One and Two came to their house
• Write a sequel to the story. Ask students to write about what they think the cat will do next.