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Dr. Seuss Week Student Assignments

Monday- Reading Day Introduction to The Cat In The Hat On this day, students will be introduced to the Cat In The Hat lesson. For 30 minutes students will take out their copy of the Cat In The Hat and read. After they finish reading, the remaining time will be used to complete the Cat In The Hat word search found here: [|The Cat's Word Find]. With this word search, they will learn the basic words that were used in the story. All this will be done in the reading center.

Tuesday- Movie Day The Cat In The Hat Movie On this day students will watch or listen to the Cat In The Hat. They can use the audio CD on the computer and listen to it. Or they can watch the video below. After they have heard the story a second time, they will summarize what went on in the story. They will incorporate words they learned from Monday's word search. They will focus on the characters of the story and where it took place. This will be done in either the listening center and the computer center. media type="youtube" key="u6GAEdtCNJk" height="315" width="560"

Wednesday- Writer's Workshop Retelling Stories with Drawings During a Kindergarten Writer's Workshop, students will use their summaries to retell the story of the Cat In The Hat in their own words. They have the freedom to change up the story all together but they have to use detailed drawings. I will share a sample drawing of a retelling to show how colorful, detailed drawings can be. Students are encouraged to use at least three drawings to retell the beginning, middle and end of the story. This will be done in the writing center. An example of a drawing can be seen below:

Thursday- Kid Pix 3D On this day students will use Kid Pix 3D Software to convert their drawings to multimedia platform. All activities will be completed in the computer center. You follow the directions being read to you by me.

Friday- Presentation Day I will help each students record their voices reading their story in order to complete the Kid Pix assignment. Before it is your chance to be recorded, you must practice saying your story out loud. After it is completed students will present the video they have created on Kid Pix to their audience that evening and dress up as their favorite Dr. Seuss character. Parents are invited as well.