Thursday, February 27, 2014

Jan Brett Theme

Below are several activities we did for Jan Brett week at our school:

Writing/Reading:
  • After reading The Hat, the students chose an animal to draw and an article of clothing to put on their animal.  They then drew a picture of their animal. 




  • Before reading Town Mouse, Country Mouse, the students made a t-chart with what they thought were the differences between the city and country.  Then we read the story and discussed what some of the differences really were.
  • As a class, we wrote a letter to Jan Brett telling her how much we enjoyed her stories and pictures and our class' favorite stories.  (http://janbrett.com/emailjb.html)

Math:
  • We cut out paper plate hedgehogs and numbered their spikes.  After coloring their hedgehogs and putting a face on them, the teacher called out a number and the students would cut that number to make pointy spikes.
  • The students colored a pattern on their mittens.
  • We measured how long a mitten was using: pennies, unifix cubes, waterbottle lids, pom pom balls, small pencil etc.
  • Each mitten had a number from 1-20 on it.  Then, the students sequenced the mittens in the correct order.

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