Letter M/Mouse

Today we talked about the letter M and we read Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh. 

To add some extra fun while reading the story I made a snake puppet, a mason jar, and some cotton balls for the mice and had the puppet pick up the "mice" as we counted.  After that we read the book again and I let my son use the snake puppet to put the mice in the jar.  You can find this idea here as well.  My snake is rather boring and I left the cotton balls basic.  You could go a few steps more and actually make mice. 

We used 1+1+1=1's M for Mouse printables.

 Homeschool Share has some printables that go along with Mouse Count we used a cutting activity.

  We also made a letter M mouse.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Preschool Theme

Today we read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" and did activities to go with the book.

We are very grateful for books and for cookies in the house!  :)

Visit Mouse Cookie Books for activities surrounding this and all of Laura Numeroff's books.  There are online games or to print off.  This is a fun game that my son and I played a few times.

These are some great sequencing cards to use as you go over what happened in the story.

My son had fun tracing some things from this Lapbook printable pack.

This is a fun sequencing wheel.

A fun math activity is matching the number of chocolate chips with the corresponding number.

Making Learning Fun also has a number of activities to go with this book.

Of course we had to bake cookies ourselves.  My son had a great time looking in the oven as they baked.  

We enjoyed eating a cookie after they cooled off.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Today we read "If You Give a Mouse A Cookie" by Laura Jeffe Numeroff.  It is such a fun book and there are some great activities out there floating around the web.  We enjoyed baking some cookies for ourselves too.

Here are some links to check out if you want to do plan some activities around this book.

Mouse Cookie Books (the official If You Give...site)
ingles 360 has some fun printables
First Grade a la carte
Myfourps has some fun ideas

Enjoy!