YOU ARE IN SEUSSVILLE!

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YOU ARE IN SEUSSVILLE!

• Power Point Created By Angela McNaught

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Seuss Questions

• Who is Dr. Seuss?
• What is The Cat in the Hat?
• How do you feel on rainy days when you cannot go
  outside?
• What are some activities we can do on rainy days?
  
• How would you feel if you were left at home
  alone, and a stranger came in?
• Which words rhyme in the story?

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Dr. who? DR. SEUSS! Biography

• Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Geisel on March 2,
  1904
• Graduated from Dartmouth College in 1925
• Attended Oxford University for a doctorate in
  literature
• Married Helen Palmer in 1927
• His cartoons appeared in major magazines such as
  Vanity Fair
• Gained national exposure when he won an
  advertising contract for an insecticide called
  Flit
• In the military he created an Oscar winning
  cartoon character Gerald McBoing-Boing
• The Cat in the Hat, was an inspiration to help
  children learn to read because of a May 24, 1954
  column in Life Magazine
• He has written and illustrated 44 children's
  books that are widely known throughout the world
• Theodor died on September 24, 1991, but his
  memory lives on
• through is widely loved books ?
• To Find out more about Dr. Seuss go to
• http//www.seussville.com/main.php?sectionhomeis
  bncatalogIDeventID

Back to Seuss Questions
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Hat-tivities!

• Class Project Each student will have the
  opportunity to make their own cat in the hat!
• Materials needed
• Construction paper
• Glue
• Scissors
• Cat face shape and hat shape stencils
• The Cat in the Hat Book (used as references if
  desired)
• Out come The students will have made their very
  own version of the Cat in the Hat, but it can be
  any color they want!

• To get the Cat in the Hat cut outs go to To print
  out the Cat in the Hat cut outs go to
• http//www.hubbardscupboard.org/dr__seuss.html

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Hat-tivities!

• Small Groups Rhyming Activity
• Make multiple patterns of a hat and cat.
• On the cat cut-outs write the words - play, cat,
  two, sunny, said, ball, say, pot, you, hall,
  cake, go, fox, now, bump, yes, so, fish , sit,
  you, and hot.
• On the hat cut-outs write words that rhyme with
  the above (example day, mat, funny, tall, etc.)
• Laminate the cards and place them in an envelope
  for the rhyming center.
• The children will place the hat on the correct
  cat!

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TEKS!

• 110.2. English Language Arts and Reading,
  Kindergarten.
• (5) Reading/print awareness. The student
  demonstrates knowledge of concepts of print. The
  student is expected to
• (B) know that print moves left-to-right across
  the page and top-to-bottom (K-1)
• (C) understand that written words are separated
  by spaces (K-1)
• (D) know the difference between individual
  letters and printed words (K-1)
• (E) know the difference between capital and
  lowercase letters (K-1)
• (F) recognize how readers use capitalization and
  punctuation to comprehend (K-1)
• (H) recognize that different parts of a book such
  as cover, title page, and table of contents offer
  information (K-1).

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TEKS!

• 110.2. English Language Arts and Reading,
  Kindergarten.
• (3) Listening/speaking/audiences/oral grammar.
  The student speaks appropriately to different
  audiences for different purposes and occasions.
  The student is expected to
• (C) ask and answer relevant questions and make
  contributions in small or large group discussions
  (K-3)
• (6) Reading/phonological awareness. The student
  orally demonstrates phonological awareness (an
  understanding that spoken language is composed of
  sequences of sounds). The student is expected to
• (C) produce rhyming words and distinguish rhyming
  words from non-rhyming words (K-1)

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Blooms

• Knowledge Arrange, define, duplicate, label,
  list, memorize, name, order, recognize, relate,
  recall, repeat, reproduce state.
• In Action the students will be able to list and
  name words that rhyme.
• Comprehension Classify, describe, discuss,
  explain, express, identify, indicate, locate,
  recognize, report, restate, review, select, and
  translate.
• In Action The students will be able to describe
  what they would do on a rainy day, and other unit
  questions.
• Application Apply, choose, demonstrate,
  dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret,
  operate, practice, schedule, sketch, solve, use,
  write.
• In Action The students will illustrate their own
  Cat in the Hat with the materials given.

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REFERENCES

• http//www.seussville.com/lb/bio.html
• http//www.nea.org/readacross/resources/seussbiogr
  aphy.html
• http//www.hubbardscupboard.org/dr__seuss.html
• http//www.nwlink.com/donclark/hrd/bloom.html
• http//www.teachingheart.net/miniunitcathat.html