Mittens and a New Friend

Tuesday we read the book The Mitten by Jan Brett.  It's a really cute story about a boy who looses his mitten and then animals in the forest find the mitten and climb inside to stay warm.  Eventually the mitten gets completely filled up and a little mouse climbs  and tickles the bear's nose.  Ask your child what happens next...it was all of their favorite part of the story!  We had so much fun hearing the story we decided to act it out.  We used our parachute as the mitten and each child picked an animal to act out.  

Here we are acting out the mitten.  This is what happened after the mouse climbed on the bears nose!

Here we are climbing into the mitten to stay warm!

This activity was great for reading comprehension because we had to remember the order the animals went into the mitten.  We needed to go back and reread several parts of the story to figure it out... (An important reading skill to learn....rereading for information)

Link to Jan Brett reading The Mitten

We also had a new friend join our class this week.  Welcome Saanvi...we're so glad you've joined us. We played several getting to know you games and songs this week.

Snack Time with our new friend.  We're now up to 10 in our class!

We worked on lacing mittens all week long for our art project.  Then we had a sheet of animals from the mitten that we could color, cut out and put inside!

On Thursday we learned the nursery rhyme The Three Little Kittens.  In it the little kittens lost their mittens and their mother told them they would get no pie; however eventually they found their mittens and got a piece of blueberry pie.  Naomi brought in fresh blue berries for us to eat as a special treat!  Thanks Naomi...yum!