Smitten With Mittens

Hello Everyone!

My wish for you is that you enjoy some joy and peace this holiday season.  My wish is that you also enjoy this new unit, Smitten With Mittens.  I love to take one piece of literature and center my entire learning environment around it!  After our New Years unit when we get back from break, I thought it would be great to use "The Mitten" by Jan Brett, another of my favorite author/illustrators.  I know kids love her books as well.  I am using this literature to help with retelling, drawing conclusions, interpretations, adding and subtracting, problem solving, and even some quick little science activities.

Here are some pics of a few of the 50 page unit.

6 page problem solving

For your free 50 page mini unit, put on your mittens and click here!


As always, thank you for your support with my attempts at blogging.  You all are the best!!
 Have a wonderfilled week!!

Joyfully!
Nancy

Melting Ice Cube

Hello Everyone!  Our SCI FRI today was a quick, easy, inexpensive experience with ice.  After enjoying Jan Brett's books The Mitten and The Hat, I wanted to incorporate a mini science lesson using mittens.  I decided to find out where the kids were with simple scientific thinking.  I asked them to hypothesize whether they thought an ice cube would melt faster sitting on a mitten or held in your hand. We talked about how scientists use what they know to help them with each hypothesis. The class was split on their ideas. Many thought that because they keep our hands warm the mitten would also cause the ice cube to melt faster.  Ask your kiddo what he/she thought!  Even when we don't hypothesize correctly, we learn!  Incorrect ideas are sometimes even more valuable!

recording sheet

Which will it be? The hand or the mitten?

Tah-Dah!

We may have some future scientists on our hands!

Thanks for taking a peek into our wonder-filled classroom!

Joyfully!

Nancy