Read Across America

Read Across America is one of my favorite events that happen throughout the school year. The excitement it brings to literacy and to reading outside of school is amazing. This year I decided to head up the read across america commitee at our school. It has been a whirl wind and busy, but well worth it!

We kicked off last week with a door decorating competition. Each teacher that chose to participate decorated their door like a different Dr. Seuss book. As the doors were going up throughout the week, the students were able to walk around and vote for their favorite doors! Once the whole school had submitted their votes the committee tallied the votes up and picked our winner! Of course we had a tie! We had so many amazing doors it is to hard to pick!

 

  My horton door "We are Here, We are Here!"

 Winning Door The Lorax

 Other Winning Door Oobleck...yes you can actually touch the oobleck on the door so cool!

Last week for Dr. Seuss's birthday the kindergarten team along with many other teachers decided to dress up in their best Seussical gear. I put on my hat, ears, and tail to become Cat and the Hat. My co-teacher and her student teacher dressed up as Fox in Sox! All the outfits were so fun. 

Throughout his birthday we filled the day with Seuss activities. We read about who Theodore Giesel Seuss was and why is so important to literacy. We did some 1 fish, 2 fish sorting and graphing, hop on popcorn snack, and a creative free draw of a Dr. Seuss character. Boy was I one tired teacher at the end of the day!

                       

 

  

These snack tags will be listed as a freebie on my blog and in my TPT store soon!

As we continued through our week, we ended with book character day! This was one of our school wide spirit days! The kiddos did a amazing job in dressing up. In my class alone I had 18/21 students participate. My costume was probably one of my favorite things I have ever dressed up as....Chica Chica Boom Boom. My team mate dressed up as Chica Chica 123! So much fun and the students loved it! My class ended up winning the spirit day count! We now get a giant stuffed frog in our class for the next month! We are the Penny Creek Frogs so the students are super pumped about it!

             

   (co-teachers kiddos all in my class)

The fun continues for read across america as we are doing a full sprint week this week, everyday is seuss themed dress up day! Tomorrow is Yipes its Stripes day. We are also doing a school wide reading log competition, where the students keep track of how many minutes they read. At the end of the month there will be a overall winner for primary and intermediate!

What does your school do for read across america? I would love to hear about it and get ideas for next year! Have a great evening! Heres to another crazy Seussical day ahead tomorrow!