Dr Seuss' birthday is a great way to promote reading English books.
In March, I plan on getting the primary school excited about reading English books by hosting Dr. Seuss’ Birthday party. I believe Dr. Seuss’ real birthday in on March 3rd, but you could throw a birthday party anytime in March.
ehow.com has some fantastic ideas for how to host a Dr. Seuss party, birthday party ideas, and birthday party project activities.
ehow also has suggestions on how to make homemade Dr. Seuss costumes, Thing 1 and Thing 2 costumes, and a Cat in the Hat costume. Of course, no proper Dr. Seuss birthday party would be complete with out the famous Cat-in-the Hat hat.
Costumzee.com is a fantastic resource for all things Dr. Seuss.
More ehow resources to make your party a sucess:
Additional resources to use in the classroom:
- AtoZteacherstuff.com has a page with links to cross-curricular activities for 15 different Dr. Seuss books
- One Fish, Two Fish Venn diagram lesson plan and Phonics lesson plan
- 10 Apples on Top lesson plan
- Diffendoofer day teaching and activity guide, Diffendoofer activity kit, and song lyrics
- Horton Hatches an Egg lesson plan
- I Can Lick 30 Tigers lesson plan
- You’ve Got a Wocket Where? lesson plan
- Seussology website
- The Sneetches phonogram lesson plan
- Cat-in-the Hat at word printable hat, large blank hat printable, large striped hat printable, and half page hats
- printable feet patterns that go with The Foot Book
Here are some ideas to promote Dr. Seuss’ birthday and the love of reading using Dr. Seuss’ quotes:
- Assign quotes to the students and then hold a poster contest. Pick the best illustrated posters to prominently display on the bulletin board and all around campus.
- Take the quotes to a sign maker and have them create colorful banners that can be reused.
Quotable Dr. Seuss quotes:
The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
- Dr. Seuss
- “A person’s a person, no matter how small. “- Dr. Seuss
“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”
- Dr Seuss
“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.”
- Dr. Seuss
“Think left and think right and think low and think high.
Oh, me thinks you can think up if only you try.”
- Dr. Seuss
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter,
and those who matter don’t mind.”
- Dr Seuss
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”
- Dr. Seuss
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
- Dr Seuss
“You are you. Now isn’t that pleasant?”
- Dr Seuss
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