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Gregory Wins Read Across America Hats
3.3.2010NDEA Member Colleen Gregory, a teacher first grade teacher at Minot's Washington Elementary won the hats NDEA gave away for Read Across America Day on March 2, 2010. Here is the e-mail that Gregory sent to win the hats for her students:
Oh the things we will do on that day of all days...
Will make learning fun in so many ways!
We'll read books that rhyme and have a good time with the Cat in the Hat and all of his friends...and that's that!
We plan to:
Read lots of books-for sure! (Parents and grandparents are usually invited in to read during the week of March 2.)
We will make Yertle the turtles from paper bowls. We'll stack them up high and then measure them and record on a graph and table as a part of our Math lesson.
We'll play a Seuss Game called-I Can Do That!-We do lots of wacky things with lots of wacky things (props) and have fun like the Cat did on that rainy day in his story. You might have to...Slide under the trick-a-ma-stick with a cake on your head! Some not so serious fun that even THE CAT himself would try.
I have my first graders draw a picture of the cat in a draw with me lesson. Yikes! That means I need to practice again. Last year the students' cats turned out so cool!
We'll have a snack of red fish/blue fish and green eggs and ham. We'll make a graph to practice our graphing skills.
We will use some of the online Seuss games on our Smart Board
I usually get dressed up in my cat costume and go out in the Commons with the Breakfast crowd and read Seuss Books while they eat. (There will be a few students who will join me in reading...I am sure!) Just a little Seusstastic Fun!
Oh the Places we'll go with Dr. Seuss and the Cat. And what fun it would be to have hats for my class! Yes...we make our own hats but to have the real thing would be seusstastically wonderful!
Thank you! Thank You!
For the chance to win hats!
You'll make my class happy!
You'll make my class glad!
We'll have one of the best Seuss Days
We ever have had!
