Showing posts with label The Mitten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Mitten. Show all posts

Saturday, February 1

January wrap up!

We made it to February! Oh how I love February! Here are a few of my favorite books to read in January and some of the literature response activities we did.
Here is just one of the activities we did with this book. We worked on building oral language for winter clothing. Then we made a circle map of winter clothing. 
 
Mittens or gloves pictograph
We discussed how animals stay warm in the winter. Here is one of our anchor charts. We circled the animals the kids thought hibernated. Chart inspired by First Grade Schoolhouse.
Hibernation chit-chat message to review what we learned.
Martin Luther King chit-chat message to review what we learned.
We made snow caps and wrote about what we like to do in winter.

Winter bubble map
Have you ever played in the snow graph.
When we returned from Christmas break we made these new year kids and wrote our resolutions. Idea inspired by Julie Lee.

We made snowmen and wrote about what our snowmen would do at night. Idea by Deanna Jump. Love how these turned out.


 

Sunday, January 27

January happenings

Oh my it has been so long since I updated on all my classroom happenings. Can you believe January is almost over?
When we got back to school in January we started with this craftivity. We talked about new year resolutions and wrote what we wanted to do in the new year.

 Then we graphed what time everyone went to sleep on New Year's eve.
 We read The Mitten and graphed which character is your favorite.
 After reading The Mitten we completed the story map on this large mitten cut out.
We retold the story using my retelling rope, story props and a mitten. We discussed the setting, characters, what kicks off the story, the beginning, middle, end, and what ties up the story.
 
On to Martin Luther King . . .
We read Martin's Big Words and leaned about his life by watching a Brain Pop Jr. movie. Then I had the kids tell me words or phrases that described his life. They made this cute TLC style art projects and unscrambled the sentence, Dr. King had a very important dream.

 
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Wednesday, January 26

The Mitten

We read The Mitten by Jan Brett, of course! We did a lot of graphing activities with The Mitten. We graphed our favorite character in The Mitten. We also graphed what you like to wear best, mittens or gloves. The First Grade Parade has so many great ideas to share.

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And my favorite, a mitten themed story map, also from The First Grade Parade.
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