Dr. Seuss Toddler Week

Dr. Seuss week was a busy week for these little toddlers! We had a Dr. Seuss spirit week where the children were to wear something special each day. Our Bible lesson for this week was to discuss the importance of reading your Bible every day.  It is important to read books every day, but the most important book to read is the Bible.  Our goal was to read through our kids Bible throughout the two weeks.

Monday: I introduced Dr. Seuss and read a few of his stories and introduced some of his friends from his stories.  (Kohls stuffed animals that go with each book)

Tuesday: The children wore their favorite, silly hat.  We read The Cat in the Hat while the kiddos sat in front of the big living room window like in the story. 

 Other activities to go along with the story include: building a fort out of cardboard boxes,

riding on an indoor teeter totter, and making the Cat in the Hat hat out of strawberries and bananas.


Wednesday: The children wore silly socks. We read the Foot Book, Wacky Wednesday, and started Fox in Socks. The children tried on 'clown' shoes and tried walking in them.
The children played sensory play in flour.  They pressed the animals and people into the flour to see the different footprints.

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Some tried matching up socks while others enjoyed feeling the different textures of socks.


Thursday: We had a snow day and no one showed up.  The toddlers were to wear shirts with words on it.  We were going to read ABC Book and review letters and letter sounds.  We had play dough with letter stencils to practice seeing letters.

  Instead my son and I painted snow inside with food coloring and water,

colored,

played in old formula,

did some fine motor practice, and eventually went out to play in the snow for awhile.


Friday: PJ Day! The students wore their pajamas, and we watched "Horton Hears a Who" in three different segments while laying on blankets and pillows on the floor.  We glanced through The Sleep Book. Again it was a little long for toddlers.  We read I Do Not Want To Get Up Today.

Monday: We read Green Eggs and Ham.

 The toddlers ate green eggs and ham for lunch and played sensory play with plastic Easter eggs.  They tried matching up colors and some even tried shutting the eggs as they found a match.


A couple other activities, we hope to enjoy later this week as we began talking about St. Patrick's Day along with Dr. Seuss is:
   
We are hoping to have an aunt who is a dental hygienist come in and read the Tooth Book to the children and discuss with them about taking care of their teeth and show them the proper way of brushing.

We are also hoping to have a dad who is a worship pastor, read the story the Ear Book and teach the children about sounds and instruments and even add in some worship songs.  (We try to sing worship songs daily while I prepare lunch.)
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