SPECIAL DELUXE A LA PETER T. HOOPER: Today's no ordinary day. It's "Read Across America Day," and darn near a national holiday. The annual event is a reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of children's author Dr. Seuss.Born in 1904, though Geisel/Seuss has been gone for a few years now, his memory is alive and well!
We started our day with a contest to see who could name the most Dr. Seuss books. I won. :) The kids did respectably though. :)
From there, we moved to the computer to watch an animated version of my favorite Seuss book, "Scrambled Eggs Super." I vividly remember my dad reading it to my sister and me over and over. How I loved the pattern of the silly rhymes and the crazily colored eggs in that book!
Afterward, we moved over to the kitchen island, where I had some hard boiled eggs waiting for the kids. I encouraged them to be inspired by the "super de duper" eggs pictured in the book while coloring them.
CJ chose a red and black striped pattern. Bee was in the mood for polka dots.
SEUSSVILLE: After the eggs, we moved back to the computers. I pointed each of the kids in the direction of the official Dr. Seuss Web site, Seussville.
I told the kids they had 20 minutes to explore the site, and their job while doing so was to write down 5 facts they could share about Dr. Seuss.
Annabelle went straight to the "author" tab and then clicked on "timeline" and quickly found five things to write down. She noted that he was born in 1904, that he had a toy dog as a child in 1910, that he had a sister named Marnie and that Dr. Seuss's ABC was published in 1960.
CJ had a slow start. He seemed to think his assignment was to do a Web site review. He wrote, that it was slow loading and about some of the site features. I reminded him of his assignment, suggested he click on the "author" tab and he finally came up with some facts, such as Dr. Seuss makes up animals, his birthday is Mar. 2, that one of his most popular books is The Cat in the Hat, that he wrote 44 books for kids and that he probably used a "tipwriter" for his books (since he wrote in the pre-computer age).
SCIENCE REPORT: After a week of no Shoreline class, we were back at it today. We got to the school early enough for Annabelle to check out the library. She was still in full Seussian regalia, and attracted a bit of attention there, BTW. ...
In addition to having more fun with marbles, tunnels and tape in science, we got to hear all about their teacher's exciting trip to see STS-133, the launch of space shuttle Discovery. So cool!
CJ chose a red and black striped pattern. Bee was in the mood for polka dots.
SEUSSVILLE: After the eggs, we moved back to the computers. I pointed each of the kids in the direction of the official Dr. Seuss Web site, Seussville.I told the kids they had 20 minutes to explore the site, and their job while doing so was to write down 5 facts they could share about Dr. Seuss.
Annabelle went straight to the "author" tab and then clicked on "timeline" and quickly found five things to write down. She noted that he was born in 1904, that he had a toy dog as a child in 1910, that he had a sister named Marnie and that Dr. Seuss's ABC was published in 1960.
CJ had a slow start. He seemed to think his assignment was to do a Web site review. He wrote, that it was slow loading and about some of the site features. I reminded him of his assignment, suggested he click on the "author" tab and he finally came up with some facts, such as Dr. Seuss makes up animals, his birthday is Mar. 2, that one of his most popular books is The Cat in the Hat, that he wrote 44 books for kids and that he probably used a "tipwriter" for his books (since he wrote in the pre-computer age).
SCIENCE REPORT: After a week of no Shoreline class, we were back at it today. We got to the school early enough for Annabelle to check out the library. She was still in full Seussian regalia, and attracted a bit of attention there, BTW. ...
In addition to having more fun with marbles, tunnels and tape in science, we got to hear all about their teacher's exciting trip to see STS-133, the launch of space shuttle Discovery. So cool!FEAST: This evening we made green (deviled) eggs from our colorful hard boiled eggs, and had some ham, too, of course. 
Rather unfortunately, I turned my back when CJ was adding the industrial strength green food coloring. Yikes!
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