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I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! – Virtual Book Club

February 18, 2013 • 7 Comments

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It’s time again for the Virtual Book Club.  Each month a different author is featured.  Everyone participating then selects a book by the chosen author and creates an activity to accompany the book.  The featured author for February is Dr. Seuss.

There are so many fun Dr. Seuss books to choose from.  In fact, in most libraries you will find a whole shelf devoted to the beloved author.  For this post, we settled on I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! celebrates all the things we discover from reading.  The story is told by the Cat in the Hat as he shows us all the fun that is to be had from keeping your eyes open and reading.  I just love this quote from the book.

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” 

After several readings of the book, we were inspired to create two literacy activities to compliment the text.

Book Collector

As a classroom teacher, I liked to show my kids how many books we were reading over the course of the year.  One year I created this gum ball machine to showcase our reading.  Each time we read a book as a class, we wrote the name of the book on a gumball and added it to our machine.

I’ve also seen this done with paper links to create a chain that can wrap around the room.  During the first year of my boys’ lives, I kept a journal of the first 100 books I read to them.  What other ideas can you think of to keep track of how many books or topics  your kids are learning about?

Reading Glasses

Reading can be so much more fun with a groovy pair of reading glasses.  You can even embelish a plain pair for some extra zing.


Don’t forget to check out other books and activities centered around work of Dr. Seuss at one of the great blogs listed below.  You can also add your own Dr. Seuss idea below.   And, join us next month for Julia Donaldson books!

Toddler Approved – Rainy Day Mum – Adventures in Reading with Kids – 3 Dinosaurs – Royal Baloo – The Educators’ Spin On It – Inspiration Laboratories – Pleasantest Thing – Edventures with Kids – Two Big Two Little – Playing With Words 365 – Kitchen Counter Chronicles – Outlaw Mom – Mommy and Me Book Club – Crafty Moms Share – No Twiddle Twaddle – The Good Long Road – Ready. Set. Read 2 Me – Reading Confetti – Mama Smiles – Juggling with Kids– Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas – Creekside Learning – Creative Family Fun – The Usual Mayhem – Teach Preschool – PlayDrMom – CraftoArt – Here Come the Girls – Being a Conscious Parent – Smiling like Sunshine – Crayon Freckles – Train Up a Child – Smile Play Learn – Having Fun at Chelle’s House

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About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

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  1. Renee C. says

    February 28, 2013 at 11:36 am

    I love how all the Dr. Seuss books and projects are coming out at this time of year! I LOVE your gumball idea. I might even use that in our house as a way to keep track of how much my kids are reading. Thanks for linking this into the Kid Lit Blog Hop!

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  2. Randy Coates says

    February 23, 2013 at 11:32 am

    I think that the onus here is not only on loving to read but also loving to collect books. When I look at my own library, I am proud of my collection and what I have read. In this digital world, people do not collect hard copies so much; however, they can still have a digital collection. I think it important, as others have said, that we have books available to reread. We continue ordering the same meals in the same restaurants because we love them so much. Books can be used in the same analogy.

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  3. PragmaticMom says

    February 21, 2013 at 7:56 pm

    I love how this blog hop is featuring Dr. Seuss’ lesser known works! Many are new to me and I’m enjoying reading about them and the activities!

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  4. Lynda @ Rhody Reader says

    February 21, 2013 at 7:19 pm

    I like the book tracking ideas–I’ve never thought of that–and Marissa’s goal of 1000 books is awesome. I’d like to do something like that, but we tend to read a few books A LOT of times. How would you count that?

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    • JodieRodriguez says

      February 22, 2013 at 8:18 am

      You could easily add a gumball each time you reread a book too. Reading a book over and over has so many benefits.

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  5. Marissa says

    February 18, 2013 at 1:32 pm

    I really love your idea for recording books. We have a goal of reading 1,000 books and this would be a neat, visual way to display it. We could even do 10 gumball machines of 100 books and work in a little math lesson. Thanks for the great idea!

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    • JodieRodriguez says

      February 18, 2013 at 3:51 pm

      That’s a great idea and fun goal! Good luck!

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