Gerald McBoing Boing

Next week is Read Across America and of course Dr. Seuss' birthday. At our building, each classroom signed up to make a poster of a favorite Dr. Seuss story. Our class chose one of my favorites: Gerald McBoing Boing!

We read the story last week and watched a short video clip. We also created onomatopoeias to go along with the silly sounds Gerald makes in the story.  This week we used fabric to make a graffiti type background by spraying and splattering paint on the cloth... What a mess but a good connection to our art investigation! Today some students made word bubbles and we took pictures of the kids making different sounds. We also had a group of friends write a small excerpt from the story.  Our poster turned out pretty nice!

Here are the students spraying the fabric with spray bottles outside.

Each student made an onomatopoeia complete with a photograph of the sound they make.

These are the word bubbles and pictures.

Here is the excerpt from the story.

This is the completed poster and the display in the hallway.

Everyone did a great job! We can't wait to celebrate next week!