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Monday, February 18, 2013
Wacky Wednesday by Dr. Seuss
Welcome to the February edition of the Virtual Book Club for kids! This month we are featuring books by Dr. Seuss. March 2 is Dr. Seuss's birthday. This is a great month to start thinking of fun ways to celebrate! We have many favorite Dr. Seuss books. Choosing one was difficult. Luckily the Virtual Book Club for kids linky party will be open until March 17th, so I'll have several more Dr. Seuss books and ideas to link up. The first book I am sharing is Wacky Wednesday.
Wacky Wednesday was written by Theodore Geisel, "Dr. Seuss", under the pen name Theo LeSieg and illustrated by George Booth. Wacky Wednesday is a very clever book because it provides picture puzzles for readers along with the classically well written rhyming text of Seuss. In this story, a child wakes up to see a misplaced shoe... on the wall. As the child moves through the morning, the book becomes a counting book of wacky items. Your little readers will be eager to help the main character solve the problem and find the wacky items in the picture puzzles.
After reading the book, Wacky Wednesday, we created wacky pictures, did some wacky counting, and investigated the letter w. I also created a Wacky game that didn't work well at home with my preschool boys, but would be great for a classroom Wacky Wednesday celebration or a library story time.
Wacky Wednesday Pictures We are HUGE fans of the "That's Silly" pages in the Highlights High Five Magazine each month. These pages are silly pictures that are similar to Seuss's picture puzzles in "Wacky Wednesday". With my youngest boy, I still have to point to the pictures and say, for example, "See that penguin selling popsicles, that's silly." And then I have to laugh. He likes when I laugh. My older son (4 1/2) now points out all of the silliness to me. He thinks he's super funny. He also likes when I laugh... at everything he says.
According to the Highlights Parent Teacher Guide, the "That's Silly" pages can help children's vocabulary grow, help children make inferences, and help children make sense of visual information.
We created our own wacky pictures. This was definitely too hard for my three year old, and it was a challenge for my four year old, but with a lot of modeling he could do it. I let him clip some sillies and then create some of his own by pasting pictures together. For instance, we took a picture of a girl walking a dog, clipped out the dog and put in a shark. He also drew a door in the road like he had seen in the book and added a shoe to the door, like in the book.
Wacky Wednesday Counting
Since Wacky Wednesday is a counting book we did some wacky counting. Here were some of the "wacky and wild" ways we counted.
Count backwards count by 2s, 5s, 10s, etc. count while spinning Count while hopping on one foot Count while holding your nose
Wacky Ws After reading Wacky Wednesday, we talked about the words "wacky" and "Wednesday", and what letter we would expect to see at the beginning of the words wacky and Wednesday. After discovering it was "w" we did a letter w maze to practice letter recognition.
Wacky Bingo To celebrate Wacky Wednesday with a class or during a library story time, you might want to play wacky bingo. In this game, students are given a bingo board. They must find someone who has completed one of the wacky tasks on the game board. That person must sign the game board. Once the game board is filled up, the student sits down. The first person to fill the game board wins the game!
Some of the wacky tasks included are: I can pat my head and rub my tummy at the same time. I can write with both hands. I can make a wacky face. I can balance 3 books on my head.
Wacky Wednesday Free PDF Wacky Wednesday is a wonderful Seuss picture book that can be used to explore language concepts, counting, and letters. It is also a funny book that will make kids love reading! If you'd like all of these Wacky Wednesday activities in one packet, you can get that free by clicking the picture below. These activities really span a lot of age groups and could be beneficial to reading specialists who are looking for Seuss activities to pass along to an entire building of teachers. If you are a classroom teacher or homeschool parent, just use the activities that benefit your child on his or her level!
Don't forget to link up your favorite books to the Virtual Book Club for Kids and check out other favorite Seuss books.
1. Gluppity Glup & Schloppity Schlopp
2. Silly Phonics Game - On Beyond Zebra!
3. Bartholomew and the GLOWING Oobleck
4. Prewriting and Sensory Play ABC
5. Ten Apples On Top
6. Fizzy FootprintsThe Foot Book
7. Wacky Wednesday Activities
8. Make a 10 Apples Up On Top Poster
9. Dr Seuss’ ABCs – Gross Motor
10. The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
11. Cat in the Hat Practical Life Activities
12. I Can Read With My Eyes Shut
13. 3 Treats for Green Eggs and Ham
14. The Foot Book Movement Activity
15. The Cat in the Hat Patterns
16. A Very Curious Class
17. Bartholomew and the Oobleck--DIY oobleck
18. Teaching Diversity with Dr. Seuss
19. Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
20. Big World Fun W/ The Lorax
21. The Cat in the Hat fun!
22. MontessoriInspired Lorax Activities
23. Dr. Seuss with a Touch of Montessori
24. Green Eggs and Ham pretend play and omelettes
25. 10 Ways to Explore Dr. Seuss
26. The Foot Book Opposites Activity
27. Hop on Pop balloon game
28. Dr Seuss book cover bowling
29. Thing 1 and Thing 2 Puppets
30. Dr. Seuss Inspired Reading Chart
31. Make your own family foot book!
32. Dr. Seuss Birthday Dinner
33. Fox in Sock Tweetle Beetle Battle Bottle
34. One Fish Two Fish DIY Magnets
35. Ten Apples Up On Top Tot School
36. Hop on Pop Rhyming Game
37. Dr Seuess Push Pops
38. Create & Imagine New Games with Dr. Seuss
39. learning about Dr. Seuss
40. Celebrating Seuss
41. Fox in Sox Puppet
42. Hop on Pop Dr. Seuss Games!
43. Dr. Seuss Pizzas
44. Paper Hat - 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
45. Stacking like the Cat in the Hat
46. "Natural" Green Eggs & Ham
47. Cat in the Hat Ice Cream
48. Making Oobleck and an Oobleck Snack!
49. Seuss Kids Yoga Printable
50. My Many Colored Days Kids Yoga lesson plan
51. Green Eggs & Ham Kids Yoga
52. Dr. Seuss Activities for Kids
53. Grinch Kids Yoga
54. DIY Truffula Trees & Lorax Bin
55. Make your own Lorax characters for play
56. Seussical the Musical: listening with kids
57. Wacky Wednesday Activities
58. One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Lunch
59. And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
60. Yottle in my Bottle Craft
61. Oh, The Places Youll Go! Quilt Wall Hanging
62. One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Math
63. The (Accidental) Lorax, red ted art
64. Presidents Day Playgroup
65. Lorax & Truffula Tree Stick Puppet Set
66. 30 Ways to Have Fun with The Lorax
67. The Foot Book & MORE!
68. Daisyhead Activities
69. Bartholomew and the Oobleck
70. Create a Wump
71. 1 Fish 2 Fish Lunch
72. Green Eggs + Ham: 4+ Ways to Play (and Eat)
73. The Foot Book footprints in the snow
74. Green Eggs and Ham A Dr. Seuss Bath
75. MontessoriInspired One Fish, Two Fish Math
76. The Foot Book Letter F
77. If I Ran The Zoo @ The Usual Mayhem
78. Dr. Seuss and Parenting
79. Go, Dog. Go! Activities
80. Dr. Seuss Tot trays
81. Lorax Truffela Tree Activity
82. One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish fun day
83. Sound Hunt Inspired by Mr. Brown Can Moo!
84. One-fish Counting Game {free printable}
85. Countdown to Dr. Seusss Birthday
86. Dr. Seuss Recipe Ideas
87. One Week with Dr. Seuss
88. Wacky Wednesday!!
89. Mrs. Karens Class
90. A vehicle for Marvin K Mooney
91. Truffula Tree Math Inspired by The Lorax
92. Thing 1 and Thing 2 Puppets
93. Fun is Good
94. Cat in the hat peg dolls
95. A Week with Dr. Seuss
96. Celebrating Dr. Seuss
97. One Fish, Two Fish
98. Happy Birthday To You, Dr. Seuss!
99. 6 Dr. Seuss Activities from The Kids Co-Op
100. My Many Colored Days
101. Kid Created Rhyme Game
102. Torn Paper Truffula Trees
103. Green Eggs and Ham Activities
104. Dr. Seuss inspired - Green Eggs & Ham Treat
105. Seuss ABC’s alphabet (kids yoga & literacy)
106. Dr. Seuss Unfinished Manuscript and More
107. Dr. Seuss eBooks and Why I Love Them
108. Preschool Book Club: Dr Seuss
109. Celebrate reading with the Cat in the Hat
110. Celebrate Dr. Seuss & Reading
111. Thidwick the Big Hearted Moose
112. light table & letters
113. Cat in the Hat Ice Cream
114. Dr. Seuss Sneetch Fruit Snack
115. Cat in the Hat Breakfast
116. Wacky Day
117. Bird Name Generator
118. Foot Painting
119. My Book About Me: Expanding Speech & Language
120. ABC Play the Dr. Seuss Way
121. One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
122. Dr. Seuss Activities Roundup
123. Dr. Seuss story time & craft
124. 6 Activities for 10 Apples Up on Top
125. Thing 1 & Thing 2 Dress Up
126. Ten Apples on Top Tot Bag
127. How to Create Your Own Wocket in Your Pocket
128. Ten for Tuesday: Things That Go-Seuss Edition
129. 5 Dr. Seuss Fitness & Gross Motor Activities
130. DrSeuss and Social Skills
131. FREE printable Seuss MASKS! Lorax & Horton!
132. Cat in the Hat Word family hats
133. The Foot Book Shower Activity for Kids
134. Green Eggs and Ham Crafts and Experiment
135. Yertle the Turtle
136. Truffula Tree Pens
137. The Lorax Munchie Mix
138. obSEUSSed Activities & Roundup
139. HOP on POP math and literacy activities
140. The Doctor of Rhyme
141. Dr. Seuss Birthday Celebration!
142. Cat in the Hat Contact Paper Craft
143. Green Eggs and Ham Baby Activity
144. Crazy WhoVille Hair Day
145. The Hobbit inspired Dragon Diorama
146. Dr. Seuss Poem creation!
147. The Lorax Speech Materials
148. Dr. Seusss ABC Book Activity for Baby
149. My Many Colored Days Mixed Media Project
150. Bartholomew and the Oobleck
151. Celebrating Dr. Seuss
152. Happy Birthday to You! Gift Tradition
153. Cat in the Hat bath fun
154. Lorax Sensory Bags
155. Cat in the Hat Sensory Bottle
156. 3 Posts with Free Seuss
157. Green Eggs and Ham Party Food
158. The Shape of Me + Other Stuff Felt board play
159. Cream caramel & maths
160. Celebrating Dr. Seuss On His Birthday
161. One Fish, Two Fish Bath Activity and Snac
162. Truffula Treats
163. Healthier Green Eggs
164. Dr. Seuss at Playschool
165. Green Eggs and Ham in Italian!
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Posted by Jackie Higgins at 12:52 PM
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5 comments: Janine LaTulippe February 18, 2013 at 4:06 PM I have never heard of Wacky Wednesday before. Thanks for sharing all of these Seuss activities! Reply
Raising a Happy Child February 19, 2013 at 9:23 PM You found a lot to do with this wonderful book. I have to ask Anna which Dr Seuss book is her favorite, so we can read it for the book club! Reply
Mia February 21, 2013 at 6:49 PM Love Dr. Seuss! Thanks for hosting the blog hop linky! Reply
Crystal Mcclean February 23, 2013 at 5:39 AM I have downloaded your Wacky Wednesday ideas and look forward to using them with Tristan! Reply
Sara Ella March 4, 2013 at 11:51 AM So many fun ideas! Thanks! Reply
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