Celebrate Dr. Seuss's Birthday
March 2, 2008

You're never too old
Too wacky, too wild,
To pick up a book
And read with a child
In churches and chambers,
Let's gather around
Let's pick up a book,
Let's pass it around.
So join us March 2nd
In your own special way
And make this America's
Read to Kids Day

 

Click on the for links
NEA is the sponsor of Read Across America - your FIRST stop as you plan your day/week celebration Dr. Seuss Activities
Ted Geisel's 100th Birthday State Book List from a second grade teacher for Read Across America
Green Eggs and Ham Lesson - Kindergarten One Fish, Two Fish, Red Rish, Blue Fish Lesson - Kindergarten
Seussisms Lunch with Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss images Dr. Seuss Lesson Plans and Activities
Reading Adventures - Poem and Song A Reader's Oath
Bartholomew and the Oobleck Lesson Plan - Grades K-3 Random House's Seussville - games and activities
Bartholomew and Oobleck - Lesson Plans About Dr. Seuss (KidsReads.com)
Initial and Final Sounds with Hop on Pop - students make a flip book Meeting and Reading Dr. Seuss - Gr. 2 - Lesson Plans for Dr. Seuss Week
The Lorax CyberGuide Cat in the Hat Lesson Plan
Teaching Phonograms Through The Sneetches A fifth grade unit on Dr. Seuss's biography Oh The Places He Went
Cut Loose With Dr. Seuss - Author Study - book activities Who's Who and What's What - extensive list of characters and words used in Dr. Seuss' books (published by Dartmouth College)
Dr. Seuss National Memorial - Springfield, MA What is Dr. Seuss's Real Name? (activity)
Biography of Dr Seuss Carol Hurst's Author Study Page
Hop on Pop ideas Cat in the Hat mini-unit
Lots of ideas, duscussion topics and activities for Hooray for Diffendoofer Day Grades K, 1 - lesson using a Venn Diagram with One Fish, Two Fish...
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day ideas Oh the Places You'll Go ideas
Math Activities Grades K-2 - Students will listen to a story, then use the same format to write a class book

 

To Dr. Seuss

Theodore Geissel, friend of my youth
provider of wisdom, laughter and truth

Yertle the Turtle, the Cat in the Hat
The Grinch and the Lorax and creatures like that

all taught me lessons I’ll never forget
and I thank the good doc I ain’t forgotten them yet.

Strangely named felines and odd colored fishes
If I ran the circus and other fun wishes

they led me to wonder about what I would be
when I got much older like a hundred and three

Would I ever like Green Eggs and Ham
Would I ever dislike the Sam I Am?

I found that the world was a funnier place
And his stories put many a smile on my face

And now I’m grown up and have kids of my own
and I read the good doc when I have them at home

and pass on the lessons I learned at his knee
though I’m not that much older, just thirty and three