Looking for some fun activities to do with your kids in the winter? Check out these hands-on fun for Jan Brett's The Mitten.
A collection of 30+ activities, crafts, and printables to go along with the book The Mitten by Jan Brett.
These adorable FREE activities to go along with The Mitten will be emailed to you within minutes! We love using this story throughout the month of January, and even more activities are included in my unit shown below.
As we enter winter and flu season, taking an unexpected day off as a teacher can always be a time consuming and stressful task. As a teacher, I always dread getting sub plans together since for me, it is such a time consuming task because I want everything to be perfect. I always like to be prepared for my students in case of an unexpected absence. While I am gone, it is important for my students to have meaningful work that reinforces the skills we are learning... not just busy work. My winter themed sub plans are all based on one of my favorite stories to share with my students in the winter, and "The Mitten" sub plans and can be easily printed in advance for a stress free day out. Included are a full days worth of activities for "The Mitten." All you need is a copy of the book The Mitten by Jan Brett (affiliate link), and I always like to copy and prepare my resources in advance. (affiliate link) Or a YouTube version that is read online by the Jan Brett! The activities that supplement the story will keep your students engaged and challenged for the entire day. They cover all subject areas with kindergarten appropriate activities, as well as instruction sheets for your sub. To begin, I always read the story with the students and then sequencing the events to reinforce the story. It is always fun for students to put the events in order in a pocket chart and they always enjoy the participation. Students can then get their own little hands on their own emergent reader, that is a great way for them to help remember the story sequence independently and get a text in the student's own hands. Students at this time are pretty familiar with the story, so we complete a sequencing activity. (This sequencing sheet is a freebie at the end of the post). Also included are quite a few other literacy activities that are common in kindergarten such as labeling, “sentence surgery,” where students create a sentence out of mixed up words and a color by code mitten where students identify the middle vowel sound in a word. Writing is also an important skill in kindergarten. These sub plans cover two different levels of writing activities, based on the needs of your students. Many times in kindergarten, writing may be just be drawing and telling your story, while some students may be capable of writing to answer a question, so included are activities for both levels. As a teacher, it Is also to model for students and see what a "correct" sentence looks like so there is also a sentence copying and sentence "fix it" activity as well. Math is another subject that has so many different skills levels in a kindergarten classroom. I have included a huge variety of easy to differentiate activities for math as well, based on your students levels and what you have taught in the classroom. You will see simple skills such as counting and writing the numbers, ordering numbers 1-10, addition, and counting, counting by tens, teens numbers and graphing. Finally, there are fun "extras" that can be used to supplement or to substitute out an activity if you wish. Included you will also find a "hat," puppets for students to make and retell the story on their own, a crossword puzzle, maze and "which doesn't belong." These activities can definitely last you an entire day out, if not two. Hopefully, these sub plans and everything included will be able to give you peace of mind if you do have to be out of the classroom and your students are able to enjoy the activities while reinforcing skills. You can find the whole unit here: The Mitten Full Day Sub Plans And the FREE sequencing activity by clicking here: The Mitten Sequencing
What a busy and fun week! We had a lot to fit in to our week in just 4 days. Not to mention that it was also the 100th Day of School for us this week too!We had a blast with our Mitten Unit! This is such an adorable story and I really look forward […]
Preschoolers and kindergartners love these story rock activities for The Mitten. Includes a free printable to make your own The Mitten story stones!
Free Mitten printables and hands-on mitten activities to go with the classic children's book The Mitten. Perfect for classroom or homeschool!
Today in our study of the forest animal habitat we read The Mitten. (affiliate link) We read Jan Brett’s book first. Using the beautiful mitten masks by Jan Brett the kids reenacted the story by putting the animal into the mitten (the kids are holding up the masks in the picture above). The mitten is just a file folder, drawn in the shape of a mitten. Jan Brett’s printables for...
Looking for some fun activities to do with your kids in the winter? Check out these hands-on fun for Jan Brett's The Mitten.
We love The Mitten by Jan Brett. Here's a collection of The Mitten Activities and Crafts you and your children will love:
We love The Mitten by Jan Brett. Here's a collection of The Mitten Activities and Crafts you and your children will love:
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
The Mitten activities are perfect for building early literacy skills after enjoying Jan Brett's book. Includes free printables.
Read The Mitten & MLK FREEBIES. Learn math, literacy and writing activities. This unit has addition true or false flip book and subtraction on number line.
Looking for some fun activities to do with your kids in the winter? Check out these hands-on fun for Jan Brett's The Mitten.
This free printable is perfect for preschool, prek and kindergaten classes after they read The Mitten by Jan Brett.
Are you looking for fun, themed The Mitten activities for preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten, and 1st grade? Your students will love these!
Warm kids up to Jan Brett's classic winter book, The Mitten, with one of these 20+ engaging activities and crafts that go with the story.
Are you looking for a fun winter unit for your classroom? The Mitten activities for kindergarten can be used to create a fun thematic unit!
Two versions of The Mitten sequencing activity printable for preschoolers and kindergartners. Such a great extension activity after reading the well-loved book The Mitten. And lets kids work on important early literacy and math skills! Click on the Fun-A-Day.com link for more information and to request your copy of the printable.
1-2-3 Come Do A Mitten Activity With Me Do you read the Ukrainian folktale The Mitten, by Jan Brett? It’s one of my favorite winter stories and perfect for practicing the sequencing and retelling a story standards. With that in mind, I designed this quick, easy and fun, mitten-themed craft.&nb...
Do you need a mitten outline for your next winter craft or project? These free printable mitten templates are perfect for Christmas or crafts and activities!
Do you love using this book in your classroom as much as I do? The Mitten, by Jan Brett, is a perfect read aloud for those winter m...
Item description This is a mitten activity for beginning writers available FREE on Madebyteachers.com. Students write one thing that will fit in their mitten and draw a picture of it. This page has large Print Practice lines. Great addition to your Mitten units.
Are you looking for a fun winter unit for your classroom? The Mitten activities for kindergarten can be used to create a fun thematic unit!
I have more than your hands covered when planning a mitten day for your classroom lol! Here are my favorite learning activities for a fun and n”ice” mitten day! Plan a Mitten Day where all the children wear their mittens to school (if possible bring extra pairs of mittens in case children forget or do not have mittens). […]
These adorable FREE activities to go along with The Mitten will be emailed to you within minutes! We love using this story throughout the month of January, and even more activities are included in my unit shown below.
Preschoolers and kindergartners love these story rock activities for The Mitten. Includes a free printable to make your own The Mitten story stones!
We love The Mitten by Jan Brett. Here's a collection of The Mitten Activities and Crafts you and your children will love:
1-2-3 Come Read The Mitten and Do Mitten Craftivities With Me! I LOVE the story The Mitten by Jan Brett. It was also a favorite of my Y5's. Her illustrations are nothing short of spectacular. To see her at work in her studio, click on this YouTube video link. It's onl...
Are you looking for fun, themed The Mitten activities for preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten, and 1st grade? Your students will love these!
The Mitten by Jan Brett is an absolute favorite book of mine. I remember it from my elementary school days, and I've always used it in my classrooms and with my own children. Today we got snow for the first time, and so it was the perfect day to pull out this book. I'm going to share a couple activities with you that go great with this book. 1. Hunting for the White Objects (Sensory) In the book, Nicki's grandmother does not initially want to make him white mittens because it could so easily get lost in the snow. Find a handful of white (or mostly white) object from around your house, a gallon sized ziploc baggie, tape, and white flour. Fill the bag with a couple cups of flour and all your white objects. Then, tape it shut so curious hands don't leave flour all over your house. Children can use this as a sensory activity and feel around to find the hidden objects. Finding something white in a white bag is hard, just like loosing a white glove in snow! The consistency of the flour really does make it a difficult task! For younger children, you may want to use larger white objects to avoid frustration. 2. Mitten Match & Sort (Math) Gather up all those little mittens for matching and sorting. You can have your children match each glove to its pair, or sort them into piles of like colors or styles. You can also create patterns! 3. Mitten Lacing (Fine Motor) Use your own hand as a template for a mitten. Cut two out, and punch holes around it. Tie string or yarn to one of the bottom holes and let your child practice lacing in and out of the holes. Younger children may need the end of the yarn taped to effectively move the string through the holes. Bonus: Print out pictures of animals from the book and have your child put them inside their mitten as you tell the story! Do you have any other fun activities to go with Jan Brett's The Mitten?
We love The Mitten by Jan Brett. Here's a collection of The Mitten Activities and Crafts you and your children will love:
1-2-3 Come Do Some Mitten Activities With Me Do you read the Ukrainian folktale The Mitten, by Jan Brett? It’s one of my favorite winter stories and perfect for practicing the sequencing and retelling a story standards. With that in mind, I designed some quick, easy and fun, mitten-themed acti...
Preschoolers and kindergartners love these story rock activities for The Mitten. Includes a free printable to make your own The Mitten story stones!
So I (Amber) have had this mitten pattern for years. We always cut two and glue or staple them together and put the characters aside. And honestlybit was driving me nuts! They always got torn, or put too much glue for their animals to fit, and I just really didn't like the project. So this year I changed it up. I decided a paper bag would be the perfect way to have an opening for sequencing the story. I just cut about half of the bag off so that it would be the same size as the mitten tracer I already had. Just turn the bag on it's side and it's perfect! Then I gave each of the students a set of animals to color and we were ready for retell! Erin's class printed the mittens on white card stock and colored them! Below is a fun follow up activity and you can find the mitten and animals there too! Just click the picture to download it! What fun things to do you like to do with Jan Brett's story?
1-2-3 Come Do Some Mitten Activities With Me! Since the other mitten packets to go with Jan Brett's story The Mitten, were such popular downloads, I decided to make a few more language arts craftivities to match that Ukrainian folktale. The Mitten literacy packet contains: an ordinal number worksheet that will help your students with sequencing the characters, a label the cover activity, a beginning-middle-end graphic organizer, 2 sets of pocket cards that review characters, stories and events + 8 bookmarks to prompt retelling of the tale. Click on the link to view/download The Mitten Literacy Packet. Another way to sequence the story is with The Mitten Story Telling Slider "craftivity." Run off the mitten on white construction paper and cut slits for the "window" with an Exacto knife. Children cut out their mitten, add some color to their "slider" and insert it into the mitten. Students retell the story by pulling the pictures on the slider so they show in the window. Click on the link to view/download The Mitten Story Telling Slider. Finally, I made some pocket review cards. Students change the letters that need to be capitalized and add end punctuation. The question cards provide a nice review of the story as well. Click on the link to view/download The Mitten Punctuation-Capitalization Pocket Card Review packet. Thanks for visiting. It's time to don my mittens and brave the cold, so Chloe my poodle pup gets a bit of fresh air. "He had mittens, Minjekahjwun, magic mittens made of deer skin; when upon his hands he wore them, he could smite the rocks asunder; he could grind them into powder." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Library Story Time - The Mitten Activities and Printables.
The Mitten by Jan Brett is a beloved favorite. This is the perfect way to take learning in-depth and bring more of the story to life for young readers. There are 9 activities (25 pages) that focus on the themes throughout the story. Most activities can be done before, during, and after based on your child's interests/needs. This is great to pair with any curriculum, especially a snow or January theme, or give as a gift for someone who loves the book. This is designed for preschool and early readers (K/1st). This pack includes: -An activity guide and the following activities. -Story sequence -Animal 3-Part Card Puzzles -Pull String Story -Opposite Mittens -Snowball Count -Mitten Graphing -Mitten Lacing -Mitten Making -Who Am I? To see a break down of what is inside and how our family is using this packet, visit our Instagram page @Mama_Makes_School and look at our Doing Work and Preschool Pack highlights. If you like this style but need a different level, special education accommodation, or theme message me and I can make it to order for you. You can follow me on Instagram @Mama_Makes_School to follow our homeschool journey and see new products. Also, check out my blog to see how we are using these in our homeschool journey, and for other homeschool ideas and fun. https://mamamakesschool.wordpress.com/ This is a digital download. After you complete your purchase the download will be available to you. This is for one license for personal use only at home or in the classroom. This product may not be sent to others to use within their homes/classrooms. This product may not be copied and resold as a whole or in pieces. Please review the terms of use before using.
Do you love using this book in your classroom as much as I do? The Mitten, by Jan Brett, is a perfect read aloud for those winter m...
10 The Mitten activities for preschoolers to try after reading a favorite Jan Brett book. Be sure to add these activities to your preschool mitten theme.
It’s week 3 of Tot School and I’m going to be real and say this was a tough one for me! So here’s just a little back story on why…We started our week on the road. (If you read last weeks post you’ll see that we decided to take a quick trip to TN, and […]
The Mitten by Jan Brett is an absolute favorite book of mine. I remember it from my elementary school days, and I've always used ...
We love The Mitten by Jan Brett. Here's a collection of The Mitten Activities and Crafts you and your children will love:
As we enter winter and flu season, taking an unexpected day off as a teacher can always be a time consuming and stressful task. As a teacher, I always dread getting sub plans together since for me, it is such a time consuming task because I want everything to be perfect. I always like to be prepared for my students in case of an unexpected absence. While I am gone, it is important for my students to have meaningful work that reinforces the skills we are learning... not just busy work. My winter themed sub plans are all based on one of my favorite stories to share with my students in the winter, and "The Mitten" sub plans and can be easily printed in advance for a stress free day out. Included are a full days worth of activities for "The Mitten." All you need is a copy of the book The Mitten by Jan Brett (affiliate link), and I always like to copy and prepare my resources in advance. (affiliate link) Or a YouTube version that is read online by the Jan Brett! The activities that supplement the story will keep your students engaged and challenged for the entire day. They cover all subject areas with kindergarten appropriate activities, as well as instruction sheets for your sub. To begin, I always read the story with the students and then sequencing the events to reinforce the story. It is always fun for students to put the events in order in a pocket chart and they always enjoy the participation. Students can then get their own little hands on their own emergent reader, that is a great way for them to help remember the story sequence independently and get a text in the student's own hands. Students at this time are pretty familiar with the story, so we complete a sequencing activity. (This sequencing sheet is a freebie at the end of the post). Also included are quite a few other literacy activities that are common in kindergarten such as labeling, “sentence surgery,” where students create a sentence out of mixed up words and a color by code mitten where students identify the middle vowel sound in a word. Writing is also an important skill in kindergarten. These sub plans cover two different levels of writing activities, based on the needs of your students. Many times in kindergarten, writing may be just be drawing and telling your story, while some students may be capable of writing to answer a question, so included are activities for both levels. As a teacher, it Is also to model for students and see what a "correct" sentence looks like so there is also a sentence copying and sentence "fix it" activity as well. Math is another subject that has so many different skills levels in a kindergarten classroom. I have included a huge variety of easy to differentiate activities for math as well, based on your students levels and what you have taught in the classroom. You will see simple skills such as counting and writing the numbers, ordering numbers 1-10, addition, and counting, counting by tens, teens numbers and graphing. Finally, there are fun "extras" that can be used to supplement or to substitute out an activity if you wish. Included you will also find a "hat," puppets for students to make and retell the story on their own, a crossword puzzle, maze and "which doesn't belong." These activities can definitely last you an entire day out, if not two. Hopefully, these sub plans and everything included will be able to give you peace of mind if you do have to be out of the classroom and your students are able to enjoy the activities while reinforcing skills. You can find the whole unit here: The Mitten Full Day Sub Plans And the FREE sequencing activity by clicking here: The Mitten Sequencing
