The MItten

We had a new sight word today. It was "SEE". When we introduce a new word, we write it on the board first. The kids are supposed to sound it out. We didn't even finish writing the second "E" today and they knew the word! Then we asked them to go back to their desks and complete their SEE book.

We also read the story called "The Mitten" by Jan Brett. Most of you know this story ... I know this because many of the children knew it. After reading, we did an exercise at our table. They had to put the pictures of the critters that were in the story on the left side of the page and those that were not on the right side. We played a little trick on them, ALL the critters were in the story. Many of them got confused as to what a badger, hedgehog and mole were and put them in the wrong place. Oh well.

We also acted out the story using a large, white sheet as our mitten. The kids got puppet masks that looked just like the animals in the story. Everyone got a turn to SQUEEZE into the mitten. Then, the bear sneezed and the mitten blew away. Boy did they LOVE this.

Our Music Lady was in today. She showed the kids how to use triangles (musical instrument) and they pretended to be an alarm. She sang a song about kids sleeping and they ran their "alarm". One little gal suggested the teachers go to sleep and they would wake us with their alarm. Course, we didn't argue.

We worked with numbers today when we completed a new book about the mitten and how many animals were found in it.

Lastly, the kids made a class book by drawing a picture and writing the name of an item (could be an animal, a food, or anything) they hoped to find in a lost mitten one day.

Have a super Thursday off. Maybe it will snow?!