The Mitten

We started our first week back at school reading the story The Mitten by Jan Brett.  In the story, a little boy named Nicki drops his mitten in the snow.  A bunch of different animals crawl into the mitten to keep warm. The last animals to go in is a mouse. The mouse make the bear sneeze and all the animals fly out of the mitten.  At the end, Nicki gets his mitten back. 

We have been doing lots of learning and having fun with all kinds of mitten activities.  Here is what we have been up to all week.

At group time we learned a new song.  
Here is the morning class.
 
 And here are the afternoon kids.

At the math center we played a dice game.  We had to role a dice and then cover up as many mittens or hedgehogs as the number on the dice said. We were really good at counting!

At the writing center we got to make our very own mitten story book to add to our Daily 5 buckets.

Then at the art center we got to make an animal from the mitten out of plasticine.  We glued cotton stuffing onto a board to make it look snowy.  Then we got really crafty and sculpted an animal to go into a felt mitten.  We LOVED this center!

Look at our finished animals!

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We also had time in the computer lab with our grade 4/5 learning buddies. Our job was to draw the mitten and put as many animals into as we could.  

Here are a few examples of how great they turned out.

On Wednesday, we got to act out the story of the mitten.  Here is the morning students acting out the story of The Mitten.

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Here is the afternoon drama of The Mitten.

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