Mrs. Drake's Classroom

Mittens

Our Mitten Glyph. Criteria: Boy color thumb blue Girl color thumb pink Like cold weather color mitten purple. Dislike color mitten yellow. 4 yrs. old add 4 orange polka dots. 5 yrs. old add 5 green polka dots. Place sticker according to fav. center: Art center top of mitten; block center middle of mitten; reading center bottom of mitten; housekeeping on thumb.
We spelled our names using preprogrammed mittens and then hung them on the line.	After reading The Mitten by Jan Brett we reinacted the story using a quilt my children's"Baba" made. The children pretend to be the animals in the story and then crawl into the "mitten". The best part is when we sneeze and pull the blanket off!
We graphed whether we liked gloves or mittens best.	We played a file folder game called the "Big Sneeze". Again best part is after stacking the correct number of unifix cubes on each mitten the child sneezes and blows them all down.
We painted our mittens with water colors. When dried we cut out the back of the mitten from colored construction paper and stapled together. Then we colored and cut out all the animals from the story The Mitten (available from Jan Brett's site).

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