The Mitten

We started the new year off by reading the story The Mitten by Jan Brett.  In the story a boy goes out to play and drops one of his mittens in the snow.  While he is off playing, different animals find the mitten and climb in. We used the ideas in the story to help us create, write, count and play this week.


CREATE: We used an app called PicCollage to help us create our own version of the story.  (We found different objects and toys in our classroom, placed them on a big white mitten and then took a picture.  We then labeled each of the things we put in our mitten.)

WRITE:  We are getting very good at writing and we are using many of the sight words we are learning.  As a class we practised making different sentences about the animals going into the mitten, Then each of us got to write our own story/sentence.

COUNT: We are also getting very good at counting different groups or sets of objects.  After we counted, we added the numbers together and wrote down the numbers.

 PLAY: Another fun and interactive way to experience a story is to act it out.  We taped a big mitten on the floor and used some animal masks to re-create The Mitten.  We hope you enjoy watching!