Hello Bloggies,
"Where are my mittens?! Mom, I've lost my mittens?" Have you heard these words before? These are common phrases that occur just about every winter season. Steven Kellogg underst
ands this quite well as he writes The Missing Mitten Mystery. This delightful story captures the very scenario that many young children have experienced. The neat thing with this book is that it ties wonderful into art or even English. It would be fun to have your students make mittens. They could draw on the mitten a spot where the mitten was lost. For English they could write/illustrate a scenario where they have lost/found a mitten. These are some simple ideas that could be done to accompany this book (at the end of the entry I will attach links to other websites that offer excellent ideas). So without further ado- Pull up a chair, Grab a cup of coffee and Enjoy!
ands this quite well as he writes The Missing Mitten Mystery. This delightful story captures the very scenario that many young children have experienced. The neat thing with this book is that it ties wonderful into art or even English. It would be fun to have your students make mittens. They could draw on the mitten a spot where the mitten was lost. For English they could write/illustrate a scenario where they have lost/found a mitten. These are some simple ideas that could be done to accompany this book (at the end of the entry I will attach links to other websites that offer excellent ideas). So without further ado- Pull up a chair, Grab a cup of coffee and Enjoy!"Oscar, I lost my other mitten. That makes five mittens this winter. I'm in big trouble" ( Kellogg, 1). Meet the child, who like so many others, who has trouble keeping track of her mittens. In this book we journey with her and her dog Oscar as she recalls her day of winter fun. We start with sledding, then snowball fights, then we venture into the unknown possibility that a bird, an eagle, or a mouse have taken it for their own purposes. But their is always the possibility that it was planted in the garden to grow more mittens. The young girls hope is slowly dwindling. Will she find her mitten? That is up to you to discover. Enjoy this book and please share the wonderful activities that you have/ will have done with your students/children.
-Aly
Links for Classroom Use
- http://www.wondersomestorytime.com/2008/02/missing-mitten-mystery-by-steven.html
- http://ourrandomactsofreading.blogspot.com/2010/01/missing-mitten-mystery-by-steven.html
- http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3753191
- http://www.preschooleducation.com/br105.shtml
- http://www.thevirtualvine.com/mittens.html
- www.users.muohio.edu/shermalw/EDP621SM2006/harrison_CLplan2006.doc
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