The Mitten

For the first week back to school, we focused on the story The Mitten, by Jan Brett.  In the story, a little boy name Nicki drops his new white mitten in the snow.  While he is off exploring, eight different animals come across the mitten and squeeze themselves in to keep warm. After a sneeze and a big commotion with the animals, Nicki finally gets his mitten back.

At Discovery, we matched mittens together and hung them on a line and designed a mitten using pattern blocks.

To mix things up, we worked in center groups.  The first centre was story telling stones.  After hearing the story read a few times, we practised telling the story to a partner by reading the pictures.  One student read the pictures and their partner would act out the story by putting the correct animal stone into their mitten.

 

For the second center, we counted groups of animals in mittens and practised writing the number sentence.

At the third center, Mr. V taught us how to play the math game  "One More."   To play this game all you need is a partner, a dice and two different coloured counters or small objects to cover up a square.

We acted out the story and became the animals in the story.

A week in Kindergarten wouldn't be complete without an art project.  First, we looked at different mittens on the Smartboard for inspiration.  Then everyone drew a big mitten on construction paper and used pattern blocks and white paint to create a design.   

Just for fun, we painted WITH a mitten on our hand.  We thought it was silly, but super fun too!  Next week, we are going to add designs to the mittens we printed.  

Check back next week to see how our collaborate mitten art turned out!