Patterning with Snowmen, Snowflakes, and The Mitten

    I modeled making and extending several patterns for the students. Then I started a pattern and choose students to continue my pattern. We identified the type of pattern it was. Then I choose students to start a pattern and they choose who continued their pattern.

   
We read Then Mitten by Jan Brett. Then students colored and labeled a mitten pattern book.

Making Connections with The Mitten

    We read The Mitten by Jan Brett. We retold the story with our partner. As we read,  I modeled making my own connections to the story. In the story, Nicki looses one of his white mittens in the snow. I talked about how earlier this week, I lost one of my earrings and how Logan (my kindergartener) found it and brought it to me. When we finished reading, the students shared with each other I time they lost something or had to leave something important to them behind. Then the students went back to their seats and I gave them a white mitten. They wrote and illustrated about a time they lost something important to them.

The Mitten

We read The Mitten by Jan Brett. The students LOVED this story! Everyday they asked me to read it several times. We illustrated and wrote about an animal from the story on a mitten.

We sequenced the animals from the story on a mitten and then labeled the pictures with the animal name and ordinal number for the order they went into the mitten.

We read The Missing Mitten Mystery and created mittens. Then we labeled them by counting by twos. We used our mitten to practice skip counting by 2s. The students also created story maps for The Missing Mitten Mystery in their reader's notebooks.