Ten apples up on top and other stories by Dr.Seuss

Enjoy our this year's activities related to Dr Seuss books.Nursery children chose and  colored their favorite character  from the book Ten apples up on top. They wrote the number of apples pasted. 

Craft by Nursery

We gave newspaper cutting for apples and faces.

Lower Kindergarten busy pasting

Craft by Lower Kindergarten 

Our tortoise puzzle was handy in making the outline and children wrote their favorite lines,

From the book Miles and Miles of Reptiles

Collection of opposites

U KG child reading  Green Eggs And Ham

My voice

While I was making these hats I wondered if I am overdoing this kind of activities like -making teaching materials, giving to children, taking photographs and posting. But it’s my heart which says continue and don't stop. It’s my recently developed passion and I am enjoying every bit of it. I thank my preschoolers who are always hungry for new activities.

In Nepal we have course books for preschoolers. We are confined to these books and try to complete the course on time. We even mark them fail and do not upgrade them. I did the same until recently when I started my own preschool.

I remember I had 38 preschoolers to handle all by myself and even if I had made these kind of materials it won't have being possible in such a large group.

Right now I have pressure from parents who want their children get through reputed schools in Kathmandu. There are coaching centers running classes for entrance exam in grade one. I feel they are teaching more than what a child would learn in grade one.

As for me I feel preschoolers mean getting ready for school and not learning grade one course.

Well I am trying to make few changes even if small to make each child’s moment here in the preschool enjoyable and memorable.

I made these colorful hats for matching inspired by Dr. Seuss-“The Cat In The Hat”

Making Sentences

  I am  glad I  introduced Dr. Seuss books to children in the school. I overheard them  keeping  track of the books they read. Now they are learning to make sentences from these books. I made few word cards-large ones for the titles and small ones for the sentences. They look in the basket for a sheet with sentences written on it.

searching cards to make title

few sentences

word cards

title cards

busy  making sentences

Later they will learn to put correct sentence cards under the correct title cards. For this they need to read the books thoroughly.

I am adding U KG activities  related to the book-"My Foot Book". They traced their feet, outlined with board marker, cut the shape and wrote opposite words with colored sketch pens. They giggled while I traced their feet. 

opposite words 

Happy U KG

Dr. Seuss books

This is the first time ever  I am using Dr. Seuss books  in the school. Playgroup enjoyed listening to Green Eggs and Ham. Ham is a new word for all the children here in the school. For the Nursery I made felt green eggs number matching and felt green egg whites matching. I stuffed felt pieces while making green eggs and blanket stitched.

felt green eggs white  for matching

green eggs number matching

L KG made a egg shaped booklet. Teacher traced the template and children cut the shape and searched for rhyming words from the book Green Eggs And Ham.  They  have  c-v-c booklet  made earlier but this has  few  longer words. The only problem during making of this booklet was that they had just one book. 

 U KG drew hat using the template I made for them. They searched   for  rhyming words

from different books by Dr. Seuss.  They have reading session in the afternoon and its fun to see them wear hats and read. 

card board template for hat

felt pieces to make rhyming word hat

U KG  wearing hats and busy reading 

U KG ready with hand prints for Thing One and Thing Two

Thing One and Thing Two by U KG

I would love to read more of  Dr. Seuss books to children  in the school. I do  not want to put too much burden on children so we will do more fun activities related to the stories.