It's Seuss Time

We're having a series of activities and reading of Dr. Seuss books next week. I created a lesson plan that's full of fun for the kids, and plan to join in on as much of it as I can, although I want the kids to do most of it. :)

I was working on the plan on Thursday afternoon. I drew a picture of  The Cat in the Hat, and added it to the little poster I was making.

Evan* was watching, and as I added a photo of Dr. Seuss, he said, "Didn't he die or something?"

When I answered in the affirmative, he said, "Why did he die?"

I told him that I didn't know, but, "I think he just got very old."

He looked at the photo again as Amy* joined us.

"Oh." he said, "He doesn't LOOK old."

Amy said, "Well DUH, he's not dead in this picture!"

So I've been looking around on the internet, and will take in a huge box of Dr. Seuss books that I've saved for the kids to read during our Read Around week.

We'll do a few activities here and there.

I am currently trying to decide what sort of snack would be fun to make, and some activities that would be fun for them to do.

The Seuss website suggests doing activities all about The Lorax, but I don't care to be all preachy about the environment and ignore the absolute fun of Seuss. I think we can do better than that, or at least I hope we can.
:)

I'm hoping to get the company camera back to catch some of our activities in photos. Definitely would be good for the crazy hat contest I have planned.

And totally OT, if you have word recognition on your blog, I am going to stop leaving comments until you either remove it or blogger fixes it... I can't see them correctly for whatever reason, and I'm not willing to spend five minutes trying to comment. Don't take it personally, it's not you, it's your blog.
:)