After last week's ice storm, staying warm is a big topic here in Texas. Kindergarteners enjoy a storytime based on cold hands and a warm heart with these two tales (and activities) about children who lose -- and find -- their mittens.
THIS WEEK’S TEKS:
1 a, b, f, g Print
Awareness
2
b, c, e, i Rhymes &
Phonological Awareness
3
a Phonics
4
a, b Prediction &
Reading Strategies
6
a Story Elements
7 Poetry
8
a, b Retell Stories,
Story Elements
9 Author’s Purpose
10
b, c, d Predict, Evaluate
& Retell Stories
18
a Oral &
Written Conventions
19
a Generate
Questions
20
a Whole Group
Research
21
a, b Library Procedures
RC(fig19)
a,b,d,f,e Read Assorted
Literature, Generate Questions,
Whole
Group Research, Predictions/Inference,
Pair
Fiction & Non-Fiction, Retell and Summarize Stories
Reading
Comprehension
n/a Book Selection
n/a Book Selection
Intent: STAY WARM IN THE WINTER WONDERLAND… WEAR YOUR MITTENS! A STORY TIME FULL OF FUN AND SONGS AND
STORIES… ALL ABOUT COLD HANDS AND WARM HEARTS.
1. INTRODUCTION
a.
a. Welcome
Song: Welcome to the Library (To “London
Bridge is Falling Down.”)
Welcome to the library, library,
library.
Welcome to the library, please come
inside and read.
We’re glad to have you here today, here
today, here today.
We’re glad to have you here today,
today’s a special day.
b.
Finger
Play: Five Little Peas
5 little peas in a pea-pod pressed (fist)
One grew, two grew, and so did the rest (raise fingers individually)
They grew and grew and did not stop (cup hands, start expanding)
Until
one day, they all went POP! (expanding… on POP, clap hands, throw out arms)
c.
Set Library Behavioral Expectations: (reinforce / commend examples )
d.
Mystery Bag :
a pair of big, fluffy mittens.
(light, squishy)
e.
Word of
the Week:
(Forms a cornerstone of the lesson, aids in understanding and connecting
text themes)
i.
English:
Mittens
ii.
Spanish
Mitones (me TONE ehs)
iii.
ASL
(American Sign Language.) Sign language is a real language where people
use their hands to communicate. Here is the sign for mittens (http://www.handspeak.com/word/search.php?wordID=mitten&submitword=Find) Put your
left hand out and draw a line first around your thumb, then your fingers. It’s like you’re drawing a mitten on your
hand! That’s it!
f.
Intent
& Agenda: Today,
we’re going to spend some time talking about staying warm in winter! Our story time is about mittens. First, we’ll read a funny story about some
animals who find a mitten in the woods.
Then, we’ll watch a video about winter and finally, we’ll make our own
mittens with yarn and construction paper before we get books and head back to
class. Ready? OK!
2. STORY/RESOURCE #1: The
Mitten by Jan Brett (1989, G. P. Putman)
a.
Pre-reading: Look at cover, predict
what book is about by title and picture.
b.
READ: this is a great book
for prediction skills.
c. Reflection: Why is mitten a different size at the
end of the book?
d.
Extension Activity:
Second time we read it, kids have cards with pictures of each of the
animals… they get into the mitten (masking tape outline on the ground…)
e. Jokes: Who Am I winter riddles
- I can swim or walk for miles.
I’m big with thick, white hair.
I live up in the Arctic.
I am a ________
POLAR BEAR
·
I’m usually made of colored
yarn,
By someone who is knittin´.
Unless one’s lost I come in pairs.
Of course I am a ______
MITTEN
By someone who is knittin´.
Unless one’s lost I come in pairs.
Of course I am a ______
MITTEN
·
My antlers tower above my
head.
Where I live--- it’s cold all year.
I can pull a sled or pack a load.
You call me a ______
REINDEER
Where I live--- it’s cold all year.
I can pull a sled or pack a load.
You call me a ______
REINDEER
·
I’m big and white and made of
snow,
So I’ll never have a tan.
When the sun comes out, I melt away.
Each year, I’m a new ______
SNOWMAN
So I’ll never have a tan.
When the sun comes out, I melt away.
Each year, I’m a new ______
SNOWMAN
3. POEM: Antartcica, Antarctico bu Heidi Lee Roemer
from Poetry Friday Anthology
Enrichment ideas for poem this week: Pantomime while reading – raise hand at long
O sound – what is best/worst thing about cold weather?
I’m cold as a snow cone
My toes are like lead
My ears, they’re both frozen
My nose? Rosy red.
Im chilled to he bone
As polar winds blow
The thermometer tells me
What I should have known
It’s zero degrees!
I wish I’d stayed home.
4. STORY/RESOURCE #2:
(Missing Mitten Mystery by Steven Kellogg, Dial Books, 2000)
a. Pre-reading Who do you think has the mitten (from
pics on the cover)
- READ
c.
Reflection
d.
Extension Activity #2: Snowkey Pokey (sung to Hokey Pokey)
Put your Left Mitten in…
Right mitten, scarf, boots, snow suit
(snow self)
5. ACTIVITY (pick one)
a. craft : make-your-own mittens. Students pick color and yarn and decorate/tie
together their own cardboard mittens.
6. Check out books
7. Conclusion
a. Circle:
i. review intent
ii. word of week in English,
Spanish, and ASL.
iii.
Open, shut them open shut them raise
your hands up high. Open, shut them open
shut them wave and say good bye.
b.
Pet the Puppet (lamb)
c.
Line Up By… color of your mitten you made.
