Lesson Planning with Me!: The Mitten

Lesson Planning with Me

Hello! I teach an integrated preschool classroom, which means I am responsible for students ages three to five with special needs of all types as well as typical developing students. My students range in ability from a toddler to a typical kindergartener. Therefore, my activities must be able to reach a wide range and be easily adjusted for multiple ability levels.

I created this blog as a way to keep track of the fantastic ideas I have gathered over the years. Because I just randomly add activities to the blog, use the search, standard list, or theme list on the left side to find the activities you are after!

I also create and sell resources that can be found at TeachersPayTeachers and Teacher's Notebook.

Sunday, December 16, 2012

The Mitten

This week, I started lesson planning using The Mitten by Jan Brett. I love lesson planning around books. The kids enjoy listening to the same story several times and then "reading" the story on their own later. There are lots and lots of resources online, but I also made a packet for Teacher's Notebook that you can get here. A few freebies are below:

Skills

Speech and Language

· Increase vocabulary

· Retell a familiar story

· Story map

· Rhyming words

· Positional/location terms

· Answer “who,” “what,” and “where,” and “why” questions

Math

· Shape naming/matching

· Big/little sorting

· Size sequencing

· Patterning

· Numeral/sets matching

· Order numerals/sets in order

· Matching sets to numerals

Motor

· Throw balls of yarn into a basket

· Shaving cream play

· Crystal painting

· Mitten lacing

Cooking

· Mitten Toast

· Hot Chocolate Mix

Science

· Touch and tell mittens

Lesson Planning with Me!