1-2-3 Come Do Some Dr. Seuss Activities With Me Do you read “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” by Dr. Seuss? It’s one of my all-time favorite Seuss stories. “Oh the Places You’ll Go” is not only perfect for March is Reading Month, Read Across America, or a Ce...

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It's never too early to think of a graduation gift. Yes, my boys are 3- and 5-years old, but, still, it's never too early. A fairly traditional graduation gift is a copy of Dr. Seuss' book Oh, the Places You'll Go! I came across a fantastic idea online to make this gift much more personal. Secretly, have all of your child's teachers write a message in the book and give it to your child on their graduation day. Fantastic, right?! This gift is easy to get going, inexpensive overall, but absolutely priceless for your child. I tried finding the original source for this idea and came across many news articles about a girl, Brenna Martin, who received this gift for gradation. Read the Daily Mail article HERE and watch the Today Show interview HERE. Here's what you do... Buy a hardcover copy of Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss. Type out your own directions OR use the template on the blog Lisa's Workshop. My Process: I downloaded the blank tag template from the blog Lisa's Workshop. Copied the image into a Word document. Resized the image. Before adding the instructions, I printed three (3) blank templates, to help make the sleeve. Then, I pasted the instructions into the Word document on top of the template. I found a cute Dr. Seuss font called Green Eggs and Spam at 1001fonts.com. When finished editing, I printed the instructions, cut the pages down to size, and taped all four pages together to form a sleeve. My New Process (updated 06/08/20): Click HERE to make a copy of a Google Template. Edit the text and print. Attach the instructions to the book. Place book in a manilla folder. At the end of each school year, give the book to your child's teacher(s). Set an annual reminder in your phone (or on your calendar), if you are afraid you'll forget. Make sure you give the teacher(s) at least a couple weeks (the end of the school year is a busy time for teachers). Hide the book until the next year. Repeat until your child graduates from high school. Isn't this a fun idea? My son had two years of preschool, so I got to start his book very early in his education. But you can start this gift at any time (even if your kids have already been in school a few years) or just have your child's high school teachers and coaches sign. The options are endless. Before adding the instructions, I printed three (3) blank templates to make a book sleeve. My son's graduation gift in the making. This is the template and text from the blog Lisa's Workshop. My son is young enough to mule his book to school, but I'm not sure how much longer I can get away with that. I started this project last year, with my son's preschool teacher. So, what do you think? Are you going to give this one a go? Today is your day, you know. I'd love to hear about what you come up with.

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I am in love with the Dr. Seuss book Oh the Places You'll Go. So much so, I used it as the basis for the 5th grade culmination ceremony two years in a row. Now, I know what you are thinking. It is ONLY February. We haven't even gotten through testing! Why are you talking about culmination?? Well, let me tell you. I was on year-round for 12 of my 14 years of teaching. I was usually on the "early" track and we were done with school in April. But since the rest of the world didn't end school until June, no one ever thought of poor little us. We were always left out in the cold, scrambling. Well, I am here to give those year rounders a head start (and the rest of you too) Here are a few ideas from the ceremony that I wrote that you can adapt for your own culmination, or even to use at a different time of year (for those of you who aren't teaching 5th grade) Thinking About the Future The whole idea behind this book is that there are endless possibilities ahead of the reader. The reader has the choice to make the most of his life (or not). So, in keeping with the theme, I had the students think about where they would like to be in 10 to 15 years from now. Where do they envision their lives? The students brainstormed 5 different things they would like to see happen in their lives. They then wrote paragraphs detailing how they would get there. To present it all, I had the students create a crossroads scene with direction marker. The signs pointed in all different directions, with the places they would like to be as the destinations. I then took a picture of the students looking at the signs and we pasted it on. I then had the students think of ONE of the places and create an "I will go..." statement that they were to read during the culmination. They wrote things like, "I will go to college to become a veterinary tech. I love animals and want to devote my life to saving them." or "I will go to the army and follow in the footsteps of my brother." (since I only had 25 students the first year..and I was the only class on track at the time, this worked for all of my students. When we had 3 classes graduating last year, we choose 5 from each class to present during the ceremony) Hot Air Balloons One of the recurring images throughout the book are hot air balloons. These symbolize opportunity and adventure ahead (which we discussed in length to get to this realization!) So I had the students create foil balloons in the shape of hot air balloons. I would love to tell you how easy these are to make (and I have been making them in some incarnation for years, so *for me* it is now easy), but I know the first few years I made them, they weren't quite so simple. I have written out step by step instructions here for you to follow. (they will be coming...I can't get the doc to work right now) These really are great to make for any theme (I have made them in the shape of fish for an ocean unit, swallows for our CA Missions unit, piggy banks for a unit on money, even in the shape of the US for a unit on the civil war) but here in the Oh the Places You'll Go, hot air balloons are perfect. This isn't a great picture, but you can see the balloons hanging from the ceiling. They have a little dixie cup attached on the bottom to give it that "hot air balloon" effect. They were attached to the ceiling with fishing line so that there was the illusion that they were floating in the air. The Song We used the song, On My Way by Phil Collins. It fits so nicely in with the theme! (the song talks about going somewhere in the far off, not really knowing where you are headed but you will be surrounded by people you love. Read the lyrics here). While the students were singing, I had them do "Glee"-style choreography while a slideshow was playing the background. It was cute and both the kids and parents loved it (although in my head the dancing was far more broadway-esq than I think it actually came out! hee hee) And, for some reason, you can't just purchase the song on its own. You have to buy the whole CD. :( But, it is $10 on Amazon, and it is a really good CD.... The Script I wove the book theme into the script. There were quotes galore throughout. Here is the script for you to use as a guide while creating your own (as I am sure you would want one that is personalized to your own school and situation) It is in both English and Spanish, and has A LOT of children participating. That is just how we liked to do it at my school. After all, it IS the students' culmination. They should be the ones doing it all. And now for something NOT teaching related (although it *could* be) This was from my son's first and second birthday party. Yeah...I didn't remember to get different colored pens for each year here. Oh well! Every year, for my own children's birthdays, I have had this book out for guests of the party to sign. It is similar to a yearbook but each year the stories get added to. Since the same people come to each party (well, so far since my oldest is now going to be 5 in March....wow! Where does time go?) they get to see a teeny bit of progression and reflect upon how things have changed. I try to used different colored pens each year, but some parties, I just plain forget to get a new color. It is so wonderful going back and reading what people wrote at the first and second year parties. I hope my children appreciate this as much as I do when they are older.

Just when you thought a Dr. Seuss classic couldn’t get any better, it does! It doesn’t matter how old you are, the words from Dr. Seuss are loaded with wisdom that provoke deep thinking. But, when you add scripture, the stories of Dr. Seuss are taken to the next level and become so much better. Like a bazillion times better. All I did here was put scripture on each page that matched up with the text from Dr. Seuss. This is a great gift for someone who is starting a new chapter in their life (e.g. moving, graduating, new job, etc.), but also for young children to start learning scripture. I “made” this for my babies this year for Christmas and gave as gifts for a few of our favorite kiddos. I use the word “made” very loosely since I didn’t create any of these words; I just matched up words from some of the greats. This is so easy and filled with deeply encouraging intentions for someone else. It takes a book with many great life lessons and adds the message of the Greatest book of life lessons. So that you can have this too, I made a document that you can download with all of the verses for each page for FREE!!!! Seriously y’all can do this. All you need is a pen :-) I chose to add the wording to each page within the art. Check it out!!!! Click HERE to get your FREE copy of the scripture so that you can get started making one of these books!!!

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