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Cross-curricular activities for 15 Dr. Seuss books, including The Foot Book, Dr. Seuss' ABC, If I Ran the Zoo, The Lorax, and more!
Plan: Page Contents The Foot Book
Dr. Seuss's ABC
The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
Green Eggs and Ham
Yertle the Turtle
The King's Stilts
The Butter Battle Book
Horton Hears a Who
Horton Hatches the Egg
The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
Bartholomew and the Oobleck
Hop on Pop
If I Ran the Zoo
The Lorax
The Cat in the Hat
The Foot Book TOP
- Paint with the kids' feet and create your own Foot Book.
- Count the number of feet in your class, then recount by 2s.
- Play Twister.
- Graph shoes according to characteristics.
- Pile shoes and have a race to see who can get their shoes on first and tied.
- Make a pattern with the kids' shoes.
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The Foot Book
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Dr. Seuss's ABC TOP
- Alphabet dot-to-dot worksheets.
- 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.
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Dr. Seuss's ABC
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The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins TOP
- Count to 500 by ones, twos, fives, and tens.
- Create math problems to see which combinations make 500.
- Bring a collection of hats to graph.
- Discuss hats worn by people in various occupations.
- Design and make your own hats.
- Using tally marks, count the number of: girls in your class, cars that go by the school, pencils in your class, etc.
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The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
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Green Eggs and Ham TOP
- Make green eggs and ham in your class.
- List green foods.
- Rhyming Bingo
- Discuss animals that lay eggs other than the chicken.
- Eggshell Art
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Green Eggs and Ham
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Yertle the Turtle TOP
- Play follow the leader, keeping the same leader all the time--how does that make the rest of the kids feel being bossed around?
- Look for turtles in the Secret Garden.
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Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
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The King's Stilts TOP
- Make a pair of stilts out of coffee cans for each student.
- Pretend you are the king or queen of a country. Write about your responsibilities and the fun parts of your job.
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The King's Stilts
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The Butter Battle Book TOP
- Decide if you want to be a Yook of a Zook and defend your reasons
- Eat bread with the butter side up or down depending on the above choice
- Discuss reasons for war and the effects on all involved.
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The Butter Battle Book
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Horton Hears a Who TOP
- 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.
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Horton Hears a Who
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Horton Hatches the Egg TOP
- Create some new animals by "crossing" two--What would you get if you crossed and alligator with a giraffe? Make your own combinations and draw them.
- Discuss the qualities that made Horton a good choice to sit on the egg.
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Horton Hatches the Egg
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The Shape of Me and Other Stuff TOP
- Color/Shape Bingo
- Show silhouettes of objects/animals and have kids name the shapes.
- Sort various shapes of gum and then graph it and then eat it.
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The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
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Bartholomew and the Oobleck TOP
- Make oobleck.
- Discuss your favorite kind of weather.
- Make a weather graph.
- Practice reading thermometers.
- Brainstorm "weather" words and then categorize them.
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Bartholomew and the Oobleck
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Hop on Pop TOP
- Rhyming Bingo
- One student says a word and another says a word that rhymes with it, and a third adds another, etc. See how far your class can go.
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Hop on Pop
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If I Ran the Zoo TOP
- Discuss responsibilities of a zoo keeper (Dr. Seuss's dad was one).
- Using clay, make animals real and imaginary.
- Design a new animal for the zoo. .
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If I Ran the Zoo
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The Lorax TOP
- Discuss the importance of trees for people and animals.
- Design a poster to discourage the destruction of the rain forest.
- Plant a tree.
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The Lorax
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The Cat in the Hat TOP - 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.
- Would the story be different if the Cat in the Hat told it? Write it from his perspective.
- Ask students to design a machine that would clean up their rooms.
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The Cat in the Hat
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Copyright © 1999 by Kyla Case Also see our Celebrate Dr. Seuss Theme Page Visits since 7 March 1999
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