The mitten

This week we celebrated the talented author Jan Brett by reading her beloved stories, The Mitten and The Hat. We did SO many fun activities with these stories; here are just a few! In The Mitten, a boy named Nikki wanted his Baba to sew him some snowy, white mittens. Reluctantly, she agreed even though she warned her grandson that the mittens might get lost in the snow. Sure enough, he loses a mitten and some clever animals decide to climb in and make it their home.

In conjunction with our math lessons this week, we used the characters from The Mitten to write an equation with a combination to 5.

We laced our own mittens and cut out all the animals in the story, "The Mitten" in order to practice retelling the story.

After reading the story once and getting our "retell mittens" ready. We watched Jan Brett read the story as we "acted" out the story with our mittens. You can watch the video here!

Here we are making our animals climb in the mitten!

Those sneaky little animals!

The students were thrilled to use their NEW "big kid" journals. We wrote "opinion" pieces about the snow. Kimberly wrote that she loved the snow because she can make a snowman with "accessories".

Our next Jan Brett book that we studied this week was "The Hat". This is a delightful tale about some silly animals who steal some clothes from a clothing line and they wear the clothes as a hat!

We became fashion designers as we created our own articles of clothing for the clothing line in "The Hat".

After designing our own clothes, the students were ready to take to the "stage" to act out the story.

Look at those beautiful woolens!

Averie made a cute little Hedgie and Mrs. McLean was our first narrator!

Those silly animals all stole the clothes!

More silly animals!

The students came up with their own animals to crawl into the mitten.