Green Eggs and Ham

We had lots of Dr. Seuss fun this week.  I was very proud of my kidlets.  Most were willing to try our Green Eggs and Ham today (and a majority discovered that they do LIKE Green Eggs and Ham).  I made a simple and yummy egg and ham casserole.  This was the recipe:

Green Eggs and Ham Casserole

5 slices of bread cut into 1/4" cubes

4-5 slices of ham cut into small pieces

5 eggs

2 cups milk

green food coloring

6 oz grated cheddar cheese

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp dry mustard

Arrange bread in bottom of greased 8x8 pan. Add ham and cheese. Mix milk, eggs, salt, dry mustard and food coloring. Pour over casserole. Refrigerate overnight.  Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees. The recipe can be doubled but I've found that a small taste is enough for most of my little ones.

It really looks and tastes better than this picture shows.
 I only had neon green food coloring and forgot to
take a photo until the end of the day.  

Of course, we graphed whether we liked the green eggs and ham.  We also made Cat in the Hats with rhyming hats and took silly pictures with the free "Cat Cam" app on my iphone.  We had lots of good fun!

I can read here or there, I can read anywhere!

                                          
        I love making class books.  A few years ago, I made a class book with my kindergarteners and our reading buddies from 2nd grade.  Our book was titled I Can Read Anywhere!  First I read Green Eggs and Ham to the whole group.  We then talked about writing our own rhyming book and decided on a reading theme because that is what we did together (and because I steered the enthusiasm that way:)  We then came up with a really long list of places we could read (I figured that was a good exercise in and of itself). Although we had initially planned to have the kids draw pictures of reading in rhyming places, the kids suggested that we use photographs of them reading.  Although this made the book a little harder because we had to find rhymes that we could take pictures of around our school, I think it made it easier for my kindergarteners to read the very predictable book.  The result was really cute and a favorite in our class library.