Upon your first visit to Seussville
(http://www.seussville.com/), you are
greeted with a whimsical, interactive homepage. The homepage sponsored by Penguin Random
House Company requires Adobe Flash capabilities because there are animations
and sound. If you explore the website
during the Christmas season, you will be able to choose from the Grinchmas
webpage (https://www.grinchgooddeeds.com/),
which is a movement with Dr. Seuss Enterprises, Random House Children’s Books,
and Universal Studios committed to ending hunger in America. These organizations help fund year-round
meals given to families in need through their generous donations to Feeding
America(FeedingAmerica.org.).
Should you choose to enter
Seussville, you will be able to play and learn through interactive games,
activities, videos, and view books from Dr. Seuss’s many collections. If you decide to view a book, you would be
able to filter the titles by you learner’s age, characters in the books, choose
from Dr. Seuss’s bestsellers, as well as listen to audio recordings of the
books, read various biographies of Dr. Seuss, view the collections of Dr. Seuss
books, and view the books when Dr. Seuss wrote under his pen name “Theo LeSieg”. The downfall about this portion is that you
are required to buy most of the selections, so it would be best if you read
books you own and then connect it to the website’s games and suggested
activities.
The second to the last button is a
tab for Educators. You may sign up to
receive the latest news and resources from the website if you are an
educator. Under the educator tab, you
may select from a Planning Calendar, Classroom Resources, Author Study, Books,
Events and Programs, and Newsletters.
The Planning Calendar tab takes you to the Educator’s Timeline, which
lists all the months of the year. You
may select a month and three different stories that you may incorporate in your
classroom appear along with a brief description of how to use the book. For example, in February on Random Act of
Kindness Day, you may read Horton Hears a
Who where you may teach kindness and perseverance.
One of the best tabs in the
Educators section is the Classroom resources tab. The website provides vivid, colorful, and
free downloadable resources. You may
choose from the many pdf printables and activities, lesson plans, and the Cat
in the Hat’s Learning Library. The Cat in
the Hat’s Learning Library contains non-fiction resources that encourage
literacy and learning about science. The
companion books are listed, but are not available on the website, so you would
have to purchase the books separately.
Seussville is a fun website that
offers colorful, whimsical, and nostalgic resources for parents and
educators. Although Dr. Seuss’s beloved
books are not available online for free, you are given free resources and ideas
to incorporate in your classroom. Your
learners may also play two games related to the books Fox in Socks, and What Pet
Should I Get? Learners may also earn
points when they play the games. They
may create a personalized Who and redeem the points for prizes.
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