Songs

and
Poems
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Oh the Places You'll Go
You're off to great places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So ... get on your way!

Dr. Seuss On the Loose

(Tune: Old MacDonald)

Dr. Seuss is on the loose,

And this how we know.
Cats, hats, eggs, and ham,
Cats, hats, eggs, and ham,
Cats, hats, eggs, and ham,
We love his fun books so!
 The Cat in the Hat
(Tune: The Adams Family)
The cat in the hat (snap! snap!)
The cat in the hat (snap! snap)!
The cat in the hat
The cat in the hat
The cat in the hat (snap! snap!)

He causes so much fun

But when the fun is done
You will be the one
To send that cat AWAY!

Repeat chorus
 How Did It Get So Late
By Dr. Seuss

How did it get so late so soon?

It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?

Have You Ever Seen a Cat?

(Tune: If You’re Happy and You Know It)

Have you ever seen a "cat" in a "hat"? (clap clap)

Have you ever seen a "cat" in a "hat"? (clap clap)
No I've never,
No I've never,
No I've never, never, never,
No I’ve never seen a "cat" in a "hat"? (clap clap)

Have you ever seen a “fox” wearing “socks”? …

Have you ever seen a “wocket” in your “pocket”?...

Have you ever seen a “fish” make a “wish”?,,,

(Make up your own rhyming verses!)

DR. SEUSS-
SEUSS-Y
(Tune: Hokey Pokey)

You put one fish in,

You put one fish out,
You put one fish in and you shake it all about.
You do the Dr. Seuss-y and you turn yourself about…
That's what it's all about!

IF YOU LOVE DR. SEUSS

(Tune: If You Love Me and You Know It)

If you love Dr. Seuss, clap your hands

If you love Dr. Seuss, clap your hands.
If you love Dr. Seuss, clap your hands.
If you love Dr. Seuss and
Thidwick the Moose,
If you love Dr. Seuss, clap your hands!!!

…stomp your feet,

…say Happy Birthday!
 Green Eggs and Ham

Green eggs and ham

Green eggs and ham
I like mine fried nice and brown.
I like mine turned upside down.

Green eggs and ham

Green eggs and ham
Flip them, flop them,
Don’t drop them.
 Famous Dr. Seuss Quotes
“You have brains in your
head. You have feet in
your shoes. You can steer
yourself, any direction you “If you never did, you should.
choose. “ These things are fun,
and fun is good.”

"Think left and think right

and think low and think high.
Oh, the things you can think up
if only you try!"

“Today you are you, that is truer than

true. There is no one alive
who is youer than you.”
“Today was good.
Today was fun.
Tomorrow is another one.”

“The more that you read,

the more you will know.
The more you learn,
the more places you'll go. “
The Grinch
By Dr. Seuss

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet

ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how
could it be so?

It came without ribbons. It came

without tags. It came without
packages, boxes or bags.

And he puzzled and puzzled 'til his

puzzler was sore.

Then the Grinch thought of

something he hadn't before.

What if Christmas, he thought,

doesn't come from a store.

What if Christmas, perhaps, means a

little bit more."
 Read Across America Poem

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild,

To pick up a book and read with a child.
You're never too busy, too cool, or too hot,
To pick up a book and share what you've got.
In schools and communities,
Let's gather around,
Let's pick up a book,
Let's pass it around.
There are kids all around you,
Kids who will need
Someone to hug,
Someone to read.
Come join us March 2nd
Your own special way
And make this America's
Read to Kids Day.
Reader’s Oath
by Debra Angstead

I promise to read
Each day and each night.
I know it’s the key
To growing up right.
I’ll read to myself,
I’ll read to a crowd.
It makes no difference
If silent or loud.
I’ll read at my desk,
At home and at school,
On my bean bag or bed,
By the fire or pool.
Each book that I read
Puts smarts in my head,
‘Cause brains grow more
thoughts
The more they are fed.
So I take this oath
To make reading my way
Of feeding my brain
What it needs every day.
 The Cat in the Hat
By Dr. Seuss

"We looked! Then we saw him step in on the

mat! We looked! And we saw him! The Cat in
the Hat!"

“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny.

But we can have lots of good fun that is
funny!”

“Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW!

It is fun to have fun But you have to know
how.”

“'Have no fear, little fish’, said the Cat in

the Hat. 'These Things are good things.'
And he gave them a pat.“

"Then our mother came in and she said to

us two, 'Did you have any fun? Tell me.
What did you do?"

“And Sally and I did not know what to say.

Should we tell her the things that went on
there that day?"
"Well...what would YOU do
if your mother asked you?"
 Horton Hatches the Egg
By Dr. Seuss

“…I meant what I said and I said what I

meant….
An elephant’s faithful
one hundred percent!”

“My goodness! My gracious!” they shouted.

“MY WORD!

It’s something brand new!

IT’S AN ELEPHANT-BIRD!!”

“And it should be, it should be,

it SHOULD be like that!
Because Horton was faithful!
He sat and he sat!”
 Yertle the Turtle
By Dr. Seuss

“I’m Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me!

For I am the ruler of all that I see!”

“Your Majesty. Please… I don’t like to

complain. But down here below, we are
feeling great pain.”

“And the turtles, of course… All the

turtles are free As turtles and, maybe,
all creatures should be.”
 The Sneetches
By Dr. Seuss

Now, the Star-Bell Sneetches had bellies with stars.

The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.
Those stars weren’t so big.
They were really so small.
You might think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all.
But, because they had stars,
all the Star-Belly Sneetches
Would brag,
“We’re the best kind of Sneetch on the beaches.”
With their snoots in the air,
they would sniff and they’d snort
“We’ll have nothing to do with the Plain-Belly sort!”
And, whenever they met some,
when they were out walking,
They’d hike right on past them without even talking.
Happy Birthday to You!
By Dr. Seuss

If we didn’t have birthdays,

you wouldn’t be you.
If you’d never been born,
well then what would you do?
If you’d never been born,
well then what would you be?
You might be a fish!
Or a toad in a tree!
You might be a doorknob!
Or three baked potatoes!
You might be a bag full of hard
green tomatoes.

Or worse than all that…

Why, you might be a WASN’T!
A Wasn’t has no fun at all.
No, he doesn’t.
A Wasn’t just isn’t.
He just isn’t present.
But you…You ARE YOU!
And, now isn’t that pleasant!

Today you are you!

That is truer than true!
There is no one alive...
...who is you-er than you!
Too Many Daves
By Dr. Seuss

Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave

Had twenty-three sons, and she named them all Dave?
Well, she did.
And that wasn’t a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one, and calls out “Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!” she doesn’t get one.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!
This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves’
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn.
And one of them Hoos-Foos.
And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot.
And one Sunny Jim.
Another one Putt-Putt.
Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O’Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate…
But she didn’t do it.
And now it’s too late!
 Tongue Twister
from
Oh Say, Can You Say
By Dr. Seuss

If your daddy’s name is Jim

and if Jim swims and if Jim’s slim,
the perfect Christmas gift for him
is a set of Slim Jim Swim Fins.

But if your daddy’s name is Dwight

and he likes to look at birds at night,
the gift for Dwight that might be right
is a Bright Dwight Bird-Flight
Night-Sight Light.