Dr. Seuss STEAM

Hi everyone!  I'm excited to start blogging about my years in Kindergarten!

Last week was Dr. Seuss' birthday.  Like many of you, we spent the entire week working on Dr. Seuss!  Throughout each subject, we incorporated Dr. Seuss books.  Even during our S.T.E.A.M. time, we spent all waking moments on Dr. Seuss.

Our favorite activity started with our Science "phenomena."  A phenomena is something that sparks questions for the students.  I showed a bunch of pictures from Dr. Seuss books.  All of the pictures were interesting buildings Dr. Seuss has drawn in his books.  The students were amazed by all of the pictures and how things were standing and if they could really look like the Dr. Seuss books.

This obviously sparked many questions for the students so we had our "Question Session."  We wrote down many questions, but we only investigated one.  How can I build a Dr. Seuss building?

Each student began his/her drawing of what "Seussville" would be best to build.  The table had to come together to discuss what they wanted to do as a table.  Once they were ready, I gave them plenty of materials right from home - yogurt containers, juice boxes, paper towel rolls, paper, etc.



The students immediately wanted to build Seussvilles that were tall and lean and quickly found out that the weight of the items were too much to actually hang the way some of Dr. Seuss buildings were.  They had to rethink, revisit and try again.

Eventually, our Seussville creations were a success.  Day 1 was over and we completed the building stage.

Day 2 consisted of creating a name for our town and painting our Seussvilles.  Some of the names were so cute - Rich World, Sunshineville, We are all Winners 'Ville!  We looked through pictures of some of Dr. Seuss' earlier books - the ones that consisted of only a few colors.  We especially look at the Cat in the Hat.  We noticed how the two main colors are red and blue.  At this time, we picked 1 color that we wanted to paint our town and began finishing step 2 of our Seussvilles.

Day 3 will be writing our own creative story about our own town.   Stay tuned for our writing papers!