Dr. Seuss, Read Across America Day, Super Cool Science (and some math) Find!

I hit the jackpot around 2:30am when I couldn't sleep!
I found out that Dr.Seuss has stuff for math and TONS more for science!
There are some videos and full episodes of Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! On http://pbskids.org/video/

Below I copied all the math problems I fixed specifically for my class from another sites story problems ( http://www.mathstories.com/bookstories/Book_12_Dr_Seuss.htm )


I also found a neat prezi to show my kids this morning to introduce Dr. Seuss!
http://prezi.com/w6nomihkxqxw/drseuss/


Seussville ( http://www.seussville.com/Educators/educatorPlanningCalendar.php ) has activities for everything including neat programs like The Lorax Project
http://www.seussville.com/Educators/lorax_classroom/educatorlorax_discuss.php

There are so many neat science resources I had no idea about... I am considering the whole month of march doing a small lesson everyday to review and go along with my science curriculum! My kids LOVE The Magic School Bus and many times they have seen the same episodes year after year (not that they or I complain) I believe they will be intrigued for another cartoon/ books about science. These are the books that I am going to use as my intro (some of which are going to be VERY hard to find!) into lessons and reviewing.
http://www.librarything.com/series/The+Cat+in+the+Hat's+Learning+Library

Here are some more resources to use with The Cat in the Hat's Learning Library http://www.seussville.com/Educators/educatorCITHLearningLibrary.php

Here are some lessons that have math activities also that I found!
http://lessons.atozteacherstuff.com/80/dr-seuss-activities/

Pictures to come!

Dr. Seuss Word Problems
1. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am. You do not like them, so you say. "Have you tried 24 blueberry pancakes with 48 dollops of dream whip on top of 32 green eggs and 16 ham chunks altogether," I asked. If you round these to the nearest ten, how many things would you be eating?
2. The more things that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. If you read 25 pages in 45 minutes on Monday, 25 pages in 42 minutes on Tuesday, and 25 pages in 41 minutes on Wednesday, what is the time in minutes that you read in all 3 days?
If he continues this pattern, how many pages would he have read in the month of February?
3. Poor Mayzie had a daisy sprouting right out of her hair. It grew 3 inches each day. How many inches was this daisy in 2 weeks? In 3 weeks?
4. Congratulations! Today is your day! You're off to Great Places traveling at 160 miles in 4 hours. You're off and away! How many miles would you have traveled in an hour?
5. The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. It rained for 2 inches on Tuesday, 4 inches on Wednesday, 8 inches on Thursday, 16 inches the next day. So we sat in the house all those cold, cold, wet days. If this pattern continues how much will it rain on Sunday?
6. The Cat in the Hat wanted to show the kids tricks. He could hold up 12 cups, 2 bottles of milk, 3 pink cakes, 1 dozen books, 1 goldfish on a purple rake. He could hold 2 toy ships and 2 dozen toy men, and with his tail he could hold a red fan. How many items were The Cat in the Hat holding before he fell?
7. Deep within the woods I spied a pair of pale green pants with nobody in them!!!!!! I wasn't scared. But, yet, I stopped. For if I moved I would have completed a total distance of 200 feet around the square forest. How much would each side of the forest be in feet if all four sides were equal?
8. "Cause you never can tell what goes on down below! This pool might be bigger than you or I know!" If the pool is 16 feet wide and 24 feet long, what is the total perimeter in feet?
If they wanted to fill the pool that is 5 feet, how much water will they need to fill the pool?
9. Left foot, right foot feet! feet! feet! How many, many feet you meet. With 25 classmates and 2 teachers in your room, how many total feet are there?
10. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! "Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store." But our presents do. At Wal-Mart I spent $145.25 and at Toys R Us I spent $200.05. If I started with $500, how much money did I not spend?
11. My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. "To eat these things," said my uncle, "You must exercise with great care." If my uncle burned 25 calories each mile he jogged, then how many total calories did he burn jogging 7 miles?
12. Fame had knocked on Mayzie's door. Now she had it all-and more. Piles of money, stacked in tens, but what is money without friends? If Mayzie gave Ralph a stack of 13 tens, Judy a stack of 24 tens, and Phil a stack of 33 tens, how much money (in dollars) did Mayzie give away?

I have a picture of my door for Dr. Seuss!

Straight haired Blonde Ms. Frizzle?

We are currently learning about ecosystems and biomes in my class and without even thing about it I wore a dress on Wednesday with leaves, brown tights and cheetah print shoes and headband. My students pointed out that I was dressed as my own ecosystem and even talked about how the leaves represented a tree (one child talked about habitat and we haven't even learned that yet!) as the producer, my shoes represented the consumer, and then proceeded to call me Ms. Frizzle. I was ecstatic, proud, and crazy just as Ms. Frizzle usually is in the videos with excitement!

Valentines day!

Like many teachers I was blessed with multiple presents from my students, some of which were carnations the high school classes were selling for a fundraiser, and with no vase in my room I had to improvise. One of the latest things on twitter right is #--this where you insert the description of you--problems
For example not having a vase in the room I would say #scienceteacherproblems
I believe this would be
#scienceteachersolutions

Measurement Humor

My students may go home and talk about MARY and RIC who aren't members of the class that knows each other and all 25 students very well, some of which have been in the same class since prek.
They will be talking about our new friends of the measurement system.... custoMARY and metRIC.
They are still undergoing "surgery" as I say and are an ongoing process but here are brief pictures from the beginning.

The baseball diamond will soon be on metRIC's stomach.
It stands for
King--kilo
Henry-- hecta
Drank-- deca
Base-- m, L, g
dark-- deci
chocolate-- centi
milk-- milli

I also told my students that getting to 3 (3rd base) is bigger than 1 (1st base) so Kilo is the biggest and goes to milli the smallest.

Here are some updated pictures...

The feet are 1 foot each and the legs are each 1 yard. I have thought about toes at an inch....

Science visuals!

As I have said before I love visuals! Here are a few more. Maybe one day I will organize the pictures on here in categories for easier access.

Math Word Problem Operation books!

So today in class we made books to tape word problems into.
Here are some pictures of the original I made....
There is a 2 with a step to represent two step problems, subtraction, addition, division, and multiplication symbol.
They seem to like the idea of this. We will see who actually uses them as references and how much they like it after a few weeks..... I plan on giving bellwork word problems that they can tape in on the appropriate symbol.

my new obsession.... jogtheweb.com.... A great resource NOT just forTEACHERS

Here is my recent creation for science for my kids to use.

http://www.jogtheweb.com/run/Uk6RSj3tqesy/Ecosystems

There are many ways that jogtheweb.com can be used! I personally use it to organize websites to print things off, one stop spot to show someone multiple sites. This can be used for everyone not just in the classroom for teachers and students. It is a great site to just organize links (for recipes with cooking, DIY projects and websites you wish to purchase for one specific project) in one window without having too many tabs open. The options are endless for this site!

I haven't really viewed other jogs that have been posted in categories other than education but I imagine there is something for anyone and everything possible for all languages.

Enjoy and hopefully you can find a way to use this in your classroom, home, or place of work. : )