All this week we will be celebrating Dr. Seuss, leading up to his birthday on Friday, March 2nd. Today our focus was on "The Cat In The Hat." As the kids were coming in this morning, they watched on TV a live theatrical performance of the story. That was fun for me to see, too! :) Then we sat down together and read the book, with the kids pointing out differences and similarities between the pictures in the book versus the live version. Don't they just surprise you sometimes with how ob When our story was done, I had a few different Cat In The Hat sorting and pre-writing worksheets that they could color, cut, and glue on while I pulled one child at a time aside to make the cute little "Thing 1" and "Thing 2" handprint pictures that you see above. I love how they each take their turn squealling and telling me "it tickles!" whenever I paint their hands! :)
Next, we got out what used to be our candy cane playdough, but today turned into Cat In The Hat playdough (I told you this stuff lasts a looong time!) and used it to make some letters, and then faces.
Somehow this eventually evolved into driving the toy cars and tractors over the playdough as I heard little whispers of "Let's see what it looks like when you drive this on it!" I just love those curious minds!
One of the kids brought some cookies to share today, so after nap time the kids will get to have a try at making those cookies into some little Cat's hats. This probably would work much better with big marshmallows cut into slices, but I didn't have any of those on hand so the little ones will have to do. Pretty sure the kids won't mind! :)
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