How we Homeschool: Dr. Seuss Day

In honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday and Read Across America Day, yesterday's school was centered around his books and characters.  Even though my kids are a little older than when schools would typically have a Dr. Seuss day, we had a blast making it a little "older."   It was a nice change to our routine, and yet we accomplished all of our basic subjects and still had some time at the end of the day for some free play with the "oobleck."  :)

We started the day with just some time for me to read aloud to them.  Even though they are getting older, they still LOVE to be read to, so I try to take advantage of that any time I can!  We are currently in the middle of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.   Edmund just wandered off to meet the White Witch!!

Next came an episode of "The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot about That" on Netflix during breakfast.  It's a little young for them, but it reviewed some subjects we have learned this year and entertained the 21-month-old we were babysitting.

While the baby napped, we read several of Dr. Seuss' "lost" stories and compared them to the originals we had read before.  We also read Bartholomew and the Oobleck, which they had never seen.  After lunch, we made our OWN oobleck, and they were quite fascinated as they tried to decide whether it was a solid or liquid!  We made lists of why seemed more like a solid and why it seemed more like a liquid, and then read some explanations of it being a non-Newtonian fluid.  They played with it for over an hour and begged to continue when we finally had to stop!

I put together a packet of some Dr. Seuss word problems for math, and they giggled as they solved how many stars the Sneetches received, how much money it cost, and how many daisies Daisy Head Maisy would pick from her garden.

For spelling, we found a Dr. Seuss font/alphabet and printed several copies of it in color.  Then we cut out the letters and the kids would have to rearrange the letters to spell a word I called out.  We used their current spelling list, and they begged to keep going when we quit.

We didn't fit geography into Dr. Seuss, but tonight was our "Peru" meal, so we decided that was okay. :)

All in all, we had a great day, and the kids are hopefully refreshed and ready to get back to "normal" this morning!