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

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Colored Cloud Dough

From: Inner Child Fun

Walking on Water

From: I Can Teach My Child

Sandpaper and Yarn

From: I Can Teach My Child




Use this to make shapes, numbers, or letters.  You can also sort by length or color!

The Five Senses

From: Mrs. Bremer's Kindergarten

 

Here's a cute activity that is a great review of the five senses.

Students cut and paste the parts onto the body, identifying the parts and which of the 5 senses it is connected to. 

I came across the idea on Pinterest, and used some outlines based on play2learnprintables and some from another website, but all tweaked a bit.

 

The outlines from play2learnprintables are actually meant as a 'Roll a Mr. Potato Head' game, which is a fun activity too, and can be found here. 

From Head to Toe

From: Mrs. Bremer's Kindergarten

To wrap up our 5 Senses unit, we read a fun book that talks about movement from head to toe...called From Head To Toe by Eric Carle.

Students L.O.V.E to act this book out as it is read. They also love to chime in on the repetitive phrases, especially answering the question "Can you do it?" with a loud "I can do it!"

We discussed how we have all been blessed with healthy bodies that can move in many ways, realizing that not everyone in the world is physically able to do these things.

The story lesson lead into a great class book.

Here are some of the entries from my students:

Five Senses Unit

From: Bunting, Books, and Bainbridge


I ran copies of the hand on many colors of paper and passed out pieces of sandpaper, waxed paper, cotton, beans, and macaroni. We talked about the texture and what the best describing word would be to tell about the texture of each of those pieces of matter. We glued a piece on each fingertip and wrote the texture word on the finger. They LOVED it!

Five Senses Poem

I found this poem here.

If a bird you want to hear,

You have to listen with your __­­________.

If you want to dig in sand,

Hold the shovel in your __________.

To see an airplane as it flies,

You must open up your __________.

To smell a violet or a rose,

You sniff the fragrance through your __________.

To bite and chew or scream and shout,

To eat or talk you use your __________.

Depending on the ages/abilities of your students or children, you can ask them to write in the appropriate body part, or cut and paste a picture of the body part.