DRAMA- plays, skits, and role-playing MONSTER MANNERS- This humorous look at etiquette can lead to discussions on behavior and manners. Teachers have used this book successfully as a springboard for role-playing good and bad manners. Use the text for a skit. While a narrator reads the story, the story can easily be acted out, with lots of parts for all. Paper bag masks work well for monster mask costumes and are easy and fun for kids to make.
Using paper bags large enough to fit over a child's head, cut out eyes, and then let the kids paste on noses, mouths, ears, hair, or horns with colorful paper, yarn, pom-poms, glitter, and assorted odds and ends like bottle caps, straws, and fabric scraps.
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The holiday mice put on a Thanksgiving play for their woodland friends. Using the script within the text as a script, your students can put on a Thanksgiving play as well. You will need one good reader to be the narrator. Start with page 11- "Come one, come all, come see our play! Pilgrim mice sailed on a ship. They came from England, far away." Follow up your play with a Thanksgiving feast! Ideas for simple recipes, table decorations, and party games, as well as Thanksgiving tongue twisters, riddles, and an easy-to-read book to make, are on my Thanksgiving Fun Page.
Other resources you may find useful: kidsdomain.com- easy Pilgrim hat costumes.
Indians can just wear a simple headband with a feather, or make vests out of paper bags. (Slit the bag up the front, add neck and arm holes, decorate by pasting on colorful construction paper Indian motifs, or cut fringe along the bottom.) 17th Century Harvest Feast- recipes American Indian stick game- includes instructions
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CREATIVE WRITING- Letter-writing, Poetry-writing WAITING-FOR-CHRISTMAS STORIES-
This is a collection of seven short stories. The first, "Christmas Letters," leads nicely into a letter-writing unit. The mailbox gives tips for things to write about!
The last story, "Christmas Giving," is a good lead-in for poetry writing. Rabbit Christmas , a poem, is an excerpt from this story.
Finished poems could become Christmas cards, for a special gift. Use pictures from old Christmas cards to get them started.
Or brainstorm the phrase "Christmas is..."
Use the poem in the story to demonstrate the concept of refrains, and encourage students to repeat one line in their poem as a refrain.
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THE WIND'S GARDEN
Kids can submit names for the Wind's Garden Dog at SPRING FUN
THANKSGIVING MICE!
Kids can submit what they are thankful for at THANKSGIVING FUN VALENTINE MICE!
Kids can submit poems about friendship at VALENTINE FUN
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HOLIDAYS AND SEASONS-
Throw a holiday book party! The mouse cheese ball party recipe is fun to go with any of the holiday mice books. Recipe at Christmas Recipes. VALENTINE MICE!- This book emphasizes giving valentines to everyone.
For a valentine coloring card from VALENTINE MICE, Valentine stories, poems, jokes, tongue twisters, crafts, party games, recipes, and a place to submit friendship poems, see Valentine Fun.
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CHRISTMAS MICE!- The Christmas mice learn to make friends with their old enemy the cat in true Christmas spirit.
For printable projects using artwork from my books, Christmas stories, poems, sing-along songs, tongue twisters, jokes and riddles, recipes, party and classroom games, a counting game, crafts, easy gifts kids can make, a place to submit Christmas poems and more, see Christmas Fun.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- THANKSGIVING MICE!- the story of Thanksgiving, from a mouse viewpoint, and giving thanks. Good introduction to both Thanksgiving and to theater. (See Drama for skit, feast, and party suggestions.)
Check out my new THANKSGIVING FUN PAGE for printable projects using artwork from THANKSGIVING MICE, simple Thanksgiving recipes and table decorations, a maze, party and classroom games, tongue twisters, an easy-to-read book to make, a counting rhyme, and Thanksgiving riddles and jokes.
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this book celebrates the world of nature.
Follow-up activities: include *notes from the illustrator on the artwork*, crafts, recipe, links
Find more ideas at Spring Fun
MORE ABOUT THE WIND'S GARDEN ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- EASTER MICE! - The littlest mouse is having such a great time enjoying a beautiful Spring day, he forgets to look for Easter eggs in the Easter egg hunt, but he finally finds the best egg of all. A celebration of Easter, Spring, and new life.
Find ideas at Easter Fun MORE ABOUT EASTER MICE!
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