Mitten Centers & a Giveaway!

First, go check out the FAB giveaway at Mrs. Bearden's Class...if you're the winner you will receive my new Playful Penguin Unit and Jamie Mayas' Patriotic Pack..head on over and leave your entries on HER BLOG.  Giveaway ends Sunday night!  


Our theme this week focused around the book The Mitten by Jan Brett.  So do our centers.  Here are some of our centers for the week.  You can find all of these in my Mitten Unit Here.  I have been really bad about taking "action shots" this year during centers, but hopefully you get an idea of what's going on in our classroom.  

A new spin on patterning...using a code

I goofed on this sheet...I will get this fixed...sorry friends! (if you bought the mitten unit)

Have you ever read Move Over Rover by Karen Beaumont?  It's the cutest little story about animals who want to squeeze in the dog's house to stay dry until along comes a skunk...you can probably guess what happens...

We retold The Mitten using our story props and story strip...and this cute little "paper bag mitten" that houses our props...you can find this in my mitten unit too!  :)

this was a fun twist on sight words...challenging

adorable symmetrical mittens...this was a partner activity...their design had to be symmetrical and they had to discuss their design together.

We compared The Mitten and The Hat by Jan Brett

Our 100 year old people...from Deanna Jump's 100th day Unit

Mitten Activities

This week we had so many fun activities that correlated with The Mitten by Jan Brett.  Each of our center activities were mitten themed which reviewed skills.  The kids LOVED this story so much!  And, I have to admit, it is too cute.  My kids know that I'm a book fanatic...sometimes they'll say, "Let me guess, this is one of your favorite books too?"  They know me too well!  Here are some pictures of us in action!  We also have a student teacher in our room who is helping us plan and carry out our activities.

 Learning about odd and even numbers.  If our kittens lost a mitten, we found out that number was odd.  If no kittens lost a mitten, the number was even. (idea from mailbox)

 We counted snowflakes in the mitten

We went on a bear hunt (idea from Suzan)

 This was our sequencing "map" for The Mitten before we completed it.

Here are the kids completing their own snowman maps for The Mitten.

I forgot to take a picture of one completed...they turned out so cute.  Try to post later.

We read sight words to see where the animal was hiding. (I saw a game similar to this one on the growing kinder's blog...I just adapted it to my theme for the week)

We made props for retelling The Mitten.  A white paper sack became the mitten

and it held all of our props.

 Here we are retelling the story using the props

Aaaaaaaaaa-Choo!!  

Our student teacher read us Three Little Kittens.  

After the story, she gave us all a mitten and we had to

find who had the rhyming mitten.

 This was one of our fun math centers.  We matched sweaters with jeans...after we counted the dots and the matching number.

 Last week I posted 2 pages of our winter fact book.

These are the other two pages we added to complete the book.
I got this idea of the winter fact book from my good friend Suzan at KrazyforKindergarten.