The Mitten

Today we read the story The Mitten Jan Brett.  This story reminded us of the story Gingerbread Baby, which we read in November.  When a child reads we ask them to make connections.  We want them to connect the story they are reading to something familiar in their lives, another story, or even an event that has happened in the world.  We call the connections we make to other books text-to-text-connections.

After reading the story the children were broken into centers.    At one center the children sewed a mitten together.  The children also colored the characters from the story The Mitten. We will use the mitten and characters to retell the events that took place in the story.