Horton Hears a who Activity

 Hello!!!

As promised, here is the "Horton" activity that I completed with my students. 

Since I didn't have a "Horton" book, I found this abridged version of Horton hears a who on youtube:

After the video, the students started on their activity. 

There were many components to this activity. 

Materials:

1. Writing Prompt

2. Copies of ELEPHANT NOSE 

3. Construction Paper

4. Pipe Cleaners

5. Pom-Poms

6. Dicuts:

-Medium hearts (2 per students) [ears]
-Mini Hearts (2 per student) [inner ears]

-Circle (head)

-Half Circle (2 per student) [feet]

7. googly eyes

These were the items that I used based on my school's resources. I found a template that used the same shapes HERE!!!

Instead of making my students "CUT" a lot, I went ahead and made these dicuts for them.

DIRECTIONS TO YOUR HORTON: 

The students had to complete their WRITING PROMPT FIRST.

2. The students were given their ELEPHANT NOSES. I drew my elephant nose, and copied it on cardstock. The students were told to color their noses, any color they wanted to (THIS IS ALL ABOUT CREATIVITY/FINE ARTS, students should be given the opportunity to be creative and not complete things in 1 way). 

3. The students were given their construction paper. I used Yellow. The construction paper serves as a background. 

4. The students were given a Ziploc bag that contained their DICUTS and THEIR GOOGLY EYES. 

5. The students were told to glue their pieces down in whatever order/location they liked. If they wanted to turn their paper vertical they could, or if they wanted it landscape, they could do that too. The students should also glue down their writing prompt. 

6. Once the students were done, I called them to the back to glue on a "clover" flower. Since I ran out of green pipe cleaners, I made 3 different colors of clovers. 

The Original "Horton-Pink/Green clover"

Thing 1 and Thing 2-blue/red combo

Orange and Green-Like Green eggs and ham! 

I hot glued the students' clover, wherever they wanted it. After everyone had a clover glued down,  I gave them an extra "clover" to keep!! 

To make the Clovers: 

-Take a Pipe Cleaner (twist it up).

-Take a colorful pompom and hot glue it to the end of the pipe cleaner. 

NOTE: Make sure you know which end of the pipe cleaner OR pompom has clue on it.. With you get something like cotton balls or pompoms stuck to you with hot glue it's a big scabby mess (as mentioned in my MLK day fiasco). 

Found below are the pictures of materials and student work...ENJOY!!

Thing 1 and Thing 2 Clovers 

Classic Horton Clovers!! 

Green Eggs and Ham Clovers! 

Bag of Materials 

Materials

MR. Haggard's Example! Look and see how creative my students were in their placement of everything!

BLESS,

MR. HAGGARD 

Dr. Seuss Week! Wacky Wednesday

TODAY for DR. SEUSS DAY, we read "Wacky Wednesday (because it was Wednesday DUH!). 

In Wacky Wednesday a young boy wakes up to  find many wacky things, it starts off with 1, and by the time the book ends, it goes to 20 something. The students had to respond to Wacky Wednesday, by telling what they would see....Found below are MOST of my students' work.

On Wacky Wednesday, It was a worm chasing a cat. 

There is a Desk on the Ceiling on Wacky Wednesday.

On Wacky Wednesday there was a house upside down and a person walking in upside down with the bed on the ceiling upside down. PLEASE NO MORE WACKY WEDNESDAY!!!

ON Wacky Wednesday there is a baby with 5 heads. On wacky wednesday, there is a cat chasing a dog. There are three houses on top of each other. On Wacky Wednesday there is a Chihuahua marrying a person. 

On Wacky Wednesday there is a straight up and down very skinny and twenty-five cars are going up the road (there was a picture of this in the book). A ant running faster than a cheetah. A flower getting nectar from a bee. The word hot dog saying dog hot. And the word Ice Cream is Cream ICe [many took it as opposite day]. A Rat chasing an OWL. A truck running away from a basket, and the sun was on the ground. "END THE"

On Wacky Wednesday a motel was swimming in an outdoor swimming pool. It would be Wacky. BAD-HI [opposite of Good-bye]...

ON Wacky Wednesday an octopus was in a house and people were in the sea. 

On Wacky Wednesday a house was on a house. One day there was a bus on a car. One day there was a house on  car. One day a kid fell on a city. One day a bird was on a little cat. 

On Wacky Wednesday a bird is "Pooping" Money.....[I guess THEY HAVE SEEN the GA Lottery Commercial, with the Goat]. ON Wacky Wednesday, a dog is marrying a person! 

ON Wacky Wednesday there was a shoe in a lunchbox. 

ON Wacky Wednesday, everything is weird. A shoe is on the wall and a car is on my house. A desk is on a desk and a fish is in a cup. And a Dog is on the wall.And a Dog is on a Cat. 

ON Wacky Wednesday a weird guy that has no head and walk through the door and he has no hands and he was ugly. He has no eyeballs and he can't figure it out. END THE! 

On Wacky Wednesday a car was on a house. The end! 

ON Wacky Wednesday at school there was 4 wacky stuff. there were 3 desk stacked on one another and the teacher was wearing roller-skates and a desk was turned the wrong way. after school lots of wacky stuff. there was a giraffe coming out of the water drain in the middle of the road and a house upside down and a tree with a chimney and a girl with no head and 100 houses stacked on top of each other upside down. That was 9 wacky stuff. 

On Wacky Wednesday a bus is on a tv. On wacky Wednesday a snowman is saying, "hello." ON wacky wednesday a apple ate a fish. On wacky wednesday a person turned into a love heart and had been thanking home.

ON Wacky Wednesday a bus driving upside down and no wheels. On Wacky Wednesdays 10 houses stacked on top of each other. On wacky Wednesday a baby chasing a truck. On Wednesday a boy chasing a school. 

ON Wacky Wednesday "Mr. Haggard is crazy, because Mr. Haggard is crazy he chases a monkey, the end!"



These were turned out cute and humorous!!!!
Dr. Seuss week is almost over.....expect to see our Final Activity featuring Horton the Elephant!

Bless,
Mr. Haggard 

DR. SEUSS-OMANIA!! Because a bug went kachoo.

HELLO--This week as we all know was Dr. Seuss' Birthday. NEA's Read Across America week!! Found below are activities as well as writings that we completed everyday this week. Note: Tuesday was another "rain day" for us, so we were unable to do  an activity!! 



MONDAY
All Because a Bug Went Ka-Choo!



To Introduce the lesson, I read "All Because a Bug Went Ka-choo!" 

After Reading, The students and I discussed cause and effect some more. The students already know from their reading skills that an effect is something that happened and a cause is why it happened! I told them to think about some cause-and-effects similar to the story we read! I told the students to try to make it Rhyme Like Dr. Seuss  (if they could)....These are just a few!! I thought they turned out great!! 

"Because a Cat fell off a tree, a boy skint his knee and it was in the city." (she used a high-frequency word of the week). 

A Little Dog got stuck on a log then it saw a green frog!

"Because a little bug went Ka-choo! A crown hit a city and sat it down and a man cried, "Ha, I'm taking a lovely nap here!" 

"Because the Bug Fell out of the tree, he scared me!" 

Because a Little Nut hit me on the head, I went OUCH!  But it hurt me so I got on the Couch! 

Because a Little Bug Went Kachoo, it blew a house down hit a ship fail in the ocean blue! Hit a starfish and went Kachoo! 

A little bug went Kachoo because a cat fell out of a tree and the boy fell and skint his knee. Because a Monkey jumped out of the zoo!! 

Because a Clown Ran to Town, everyone sat down! 

One day, a monkey got out of the tar, and ran in the street  and hit a car!!......(hahaha!! LOVE HIS'!!)!!! 



HOPE These find you in great spirits~~


Bless,
Mr. Haggard