We go all out for Seuss!!
One year we decorated a separate room. My mother is also a teacher at my school. She had been our reading specialist, but now teaches 2nd grade. It used to be that teachers would sign up for time slots to have their classes visit our very own Seussville. We would read a book or share some facts. We've given out birthday cake, cookies, cupcakes, but we always give out bookmarks. They ask you to name your top three books. Oh I forgot to mention, I dress up at the Cat in the Hat. ;)
You see all the books on the floor? They usually go around our room. I have collected almost all of his books.
So I took book covers of all of the books we own put Seuss Cat in the Hat hats under them. The children get a black and white copy of the book sheets. When children read that book, they color in the hat.
Then there is this recording sheet. We record the date, book title, favorite part and then the "hat" rating system. As a class we decide what each "hat" means.
Rating System in this case hats. Here is an example:
1 hat- means the book was okay and I would only tell one friend about it.
2 hats- means it was good and I would only tell a couple of people about it
3 hats- means it was amazing and I want to tell everyone I know!!
We made an anchor chart with hats for display.
Currently, we cannot make copies in our building, so I just, display this one as a guide the first few days, and the kids record in their Daily Five journals. I do have copies made for the books read pages though :)
Other Author Studies to come:
*Mo Willems
*Marc Brown
Which other author studies do you do? Leave me a comment or message me and perhaps I will make that one next :)
