Kinder if You Give a Mouse Lessons

Kindergarten If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Lessons

By Rachel Friedrich www.subhubonline.blogspot.com

How to Use These Lessons

These lessons are intended for use as one-day emergency substitute teacher lesson plans. They can be downloaded by a classroom teacher to keep in a substitute binder or by a substitute teacher to keep handy in your bag of tricks. But they can also be used a lesson at a time. These lessons are written at a kindergarten grade level and include: • A warm-up • A reading lesson

• A language arts lesson • A social studies lesson • A science lesson • A math lesson

Materials Needed

Warm-up: 4” brown construction paper circles, 6” pieces of brown yarn, 1” pink construction paper circles, pink pompoms, googly eyes, glue Reading: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff; finger puppets from the warm-up Language Arts: copies of the sentence template; crayons Social Studies: copies of the Needs/Wants T-chart; copies of picture pieces; scissors; crayons; glue Science: different sizes and shapes of milk containers; two identical bowls or beakers Math: copies of favorite cookie page and the cookies graph; crayons; scissors

Warm-up

Students will make their own mouse finger puppet using the following steps:

1. Fold 4” diameter brown construction paper circles in half and open them back up.

2. Glue the 6” brown yarn “tail” next to the fold and sticking out on one side.

3. Put dots of glue only part of the top curved area, and fold back together.

4. Glue the googly eye and pink pompom for the nose. 5. Glue the 1” diameter pink construction paper circle for the ear. 6. Finished project should look something like:

Reading

Pre-reading: Show students the cover of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and read the title. Have them make predictions about what they think the book is about. Take the students through a picture walk of the book discussing what they see on each page. Read the book aloud, asking for predictions about what he might want next. After reading: Students can use their mouse finger puppets to retell the events in the story. The teacher can record what they say on chart paper or the board, adding pictures to remind students of what the words are. You could also read other books by Laura Joffe Numeroff and compare and contrast them. Other titles include: If You Give a Moose a Muffin If You Give a Pig a Pancake If You Take a Mouse to School If You Take a Mouse to the Movies

Language Arts

Model the sentence pattern in If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Show how what the mouse gets and then what the mouse wants go together (for example: cookies and milk). Help students brainstorm other things that go together (boots and mittens, peanut butter and jelly, glue and glitter, etc.). Students then write and illustrate their own sentence following the pattern using the included template.

Name _______________________________

If you give a mouse a _____________________, he’s going to want a _______________________ to go with it.

Social Studies

Make a list of all the things the mouse wanted in If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Talk about whether these were things that mice need to live or simply things they want. Talk about the difference between a need and a want. Students then color in the pictures on the picture sheet, cut them out and glue them on the need or want side of the T-chart.

Name_______________________________

Needs Wants

Color the pictures. Then cut them out and glue them onto the needs or wants side

of the T-chart.

Science

Show students different sizes and shapes of milk containers. You should have a good variety in sizes of pints, quarts, and gallons. Different brands have different shaped containers. Introduce the word “volume” and tell the students that volume is how much a container holds. We use volume to measure liquid things like milk and water. Have the students make predictions about which container they think holds the most. Take two of the smaller containers that are different shapes. Have students predict which one of those holds more. Then pour each into same-size containers (if you don’t have scientific equipment, you could just pour them into identical bowls; and they don’t have to be filled with milk; you can fill them with water for easier clean up). Students should draw the conclusion that it is the size of the container that matters, not the shape.

Math

As a class, complete a tally chart of which kind of cookie are the students’ favorites. Hand students the My Favorite Cookie sheet. Students color only one type of cookie (their favorite) and cut it out. They will bring their cut-out favorite to the teacher who will tape it to a class graph on chart paper. When all students are finished, talk about which cookie was liked the most and which was liked the least. You can discuss other comparison sentences as well. Students then color in their pictograph according to the class results.

My Favorite Cookie

Color only one cookie that is your favorite. Cut it out.

Chocolate Chip M&M

Sugar Peanut Butter

Cookie Favorites Pictograph

Our Favorite Cookies Chocolate Chip M&M Sugar Peanut Butter