The first time I read this story the children noticed I said "up" a lot of times. On another day I said, "Wouldn't it be fun to find out exactly how many there are?" so I read it again and they made a tally mark on their own white board every time I said "up." What a fun way of making tally marks and counting by 5's! -Mrs. Jones

At the end of the book there is a page with 4 lines of letters without any spaces that spell words from the book. Another day, as the task in our morning message, I copied the same letters on my large whiteboard. The children used their own whiteboard to write as many of the words as they could recognize. It surprised some how good they were at finding the hidden words. -Mrs. Jones
Fun Activity- Cut out a square of bubble wrap for each child. Every time they hear a word that rhymes with **** they get to pop a bubble and at the end if they have any bubbles left they get to "hop" on their square to "pop" all their bubbles.

Cats in Hats Poem used in the Read Aloud above 1 cat on a sunny day put on his hat and went out to play 2 cats when the sky was blue put on their hats and went to the zoo 3 cats on a rainy day put on their hats, but had to stay 4 cats when the snow came down put on their hats and went to town 5 hats on a windy day put on their hats and blew away