
If You Give a
...
Mouse a Cookie
Moose a Muffin
Pig a Pancake
by Laura
Numeroff

I'm developing
this unit to use with my class, so I'll be working on this page as I
go along. I purchased the Mouse, Moose, and Pig from Kohl's
this summer that goes along with these three books by Laura Numeroff.
So since I haven't introduced the characters or the books to my
class yet, I thought this would be a great way to do so ... by doing
a mini-unit on each book. The characters will come to visit
our class via our class mailbox. (pictures of the mailbox on the
Back to
School page)
If You Give a
Mouse a Cookie

If you give a mouse a
cookie,
he's going to ask for a
glass of
milk to go with it!
And that's only the
beginning ...
Making Predictions:
Show the students the cover of the book and ask them
to tell what they think the story will be about.
Picture Walk:
Then take your students on a picture walk through the
book. Don't read the text, just let them look at each picture
and tell what they think is happening in each picture.
Vocabulary:
I use a pocketchart for vocabulary words that go with
our themes/units. I make a graphic for each word and glue it
to a sentence strip, then add the word to the strip and cut off the
excess. Then I laminate them. My students use these A
LOT during Writing Workshop.
mouse |
cookie |
milk |
straw |
napkin |
crumbs |
broom |
mop |
mirror |
scissors |
paper |
crayons |
pillow |
blanket |
box |
sleep |
boy |
glass |
refrigerator |
mustache |
hair |
house |
floor |
book |
pictures |
pen |
name |
tape |
overalls |
|
We've Got Mail!:
This will be where the mouse from the book comes to
visit!
Story Map:
After the story has been read several times, have the students help
to complete a story map. Make a map on a large sheet of chart
paper by writing the title of the book and the author inside a
circle in the middle of the page. Then make more circles
radiating out from the circle containing 1) characters in the story
2) setting of the story 3) beginning of the story 4)
middle of the story 5) end of the story. This might be a
good time to discuss with the students the fact that this book is a
"circle story." Each event hinges on the previous event and
can continue indefinitely.
Circle Story Diagram:
The fact that the story is a circle story can be demonstrated by
having students glue pictures representing the events of the story
in the proper order around the edge of a circle that has been
divided into the appropriate number of sections. Each section
of the circle will contain one picture and the pictures will be
placed sequentially around the edge of the circle. Once dry,
the students can use their circle diagram to retell the story.
Counting:
I enlarged a cookie jar pattern to full page size
and copied it
onto white construction paper.
I colored the mouse (thought my hand was going to fall off after 20
of them), cut the jar out and used rubber cement to glue them to
blue construction paper. I did the latter step so as to give
the jars more support. Some of that white construction paper
was really flimsy. Then I programmed each jar with a number 0 - 20.
The cookie patterns I reduced in size and copied onto brown
construction paper. They had to be small to be able to get 20
cookies in a jar. Everything will be laminated. The students will count the appropriate number of
paper cookies into each jar. If you'd prefer, you could use
the real mini chocolate chip cookies instead of paper ones.
The patterns came from Whole Language Units for Predictable Books
#206. But you could
use any cookie jar pattern and even create your own cookie pattern.
Very cute activity!
Note: Kelly,
from Virginia, shared that you could also create just one jar and
use a spinner to indicate the number of cookies to add.
Students can even work in pairs. Great idea, Kelly, thanks for
sharing! :) This would work very well if you're working with a
small group, too. If you're like me you might want to also
have an activity that they can do independently but you can go back
and check over their work. If so, use the first version of
this activity.
Rhyming Words:
I enlarged the same cookie pattern from above and
made a rhyming words activity. The students will match the
rhyming words.
Word Families:
I can use these same cookies for a Word Families
activity as well. I made a large "glass of milk" pattern
(enlarged flannelboard pattern from the same book) and programmed
each glass with a word family. The students will sort the
cookies into the correct family.
Flannelboard:
By the way, these patterns were really intended to be
used to create flannelboard pieces. I'm going to do that as
well by copying them onto cardstock, coloring and cutting, then
having them laminated. I'll hotglue squares of rough sandpaper
to the back so they'll stick to the flannelboard. OR, you can
hotglue velcro to the back as well. Velcro works really well.
Digging Cookies:
Give each student a chocolate chip cookie and let
them dig the chips out. They can record their finds each time
they dig a chip out by placing a tally mark on a record sheet.
(Teaching tally marks is part of our 1st & 2nd grade Saxon Math)
Then they can write the total number of chips that they found in
their cookie. You can also create a class graph to graph the
number of chips in each cookie. That's the way the cookie
crumbles! :)
Experiment:
Have your students hypothesize what they think will
happen to a cookie if it's placed in a glass of milk. Have
them record their findings. How long did it take before the
cookie began to break down?
Graphing Questions:
Provide 2 or 3 different kinds of cookies and let
your students have a taste test. Then have them graph their
favorite cookie using either a class pictograph or bar graph, or let
them complete their own graph using the results. And for you
Texas teachers, you can graph their favorite kind of milk, because I
think the first ingredient in milk is still .. milk! :) They
can graph whether or not they like chocolate, white, or strawberry
milk best.
We graphed
Peanut Butter, Vanilla, or Chocolate Chip. The children chose
their favorite and was given the appropriate color circle for that
cookie. Then they either decorated it with chocolate chips
using a black crayon or hole reinforcers. They also had a
choice of whether or not to cut a "bite" out of the cookie.
Afterwards, we transferred the information to individual bar graph
sheets (you can see these hanging beside the Favorite Muffin graph
below).
Fact or Fantasy:
One of our Kindergarten benchmark objectives is for
students to distinguish real and make-believe. This is a great
story to introduce or reinforce that concept.
Standard Measurement:
If you give a mouse a glass of milk, you know he's
going to want a straw to go with it! :) So why not let those
straws help you teach standard measurement as well. You can
either use real plastic/styrofoam drinking glasses for this activity
or a picture of a glass of milk. You'll need several glasses
and straws. Program each glass with a measurement such as "one
inch, two inches, 2 1/2 inches", whatever skill you're working on.
Then measure and cut up the straws to match the glasses. You
can have one straw per glass (easiest) or several straws per glass
(harder). Students will measure the straws and match them to
the appropriate glass. For ease in checking, you can program
each straw with a letter and then make yourself or the students a
card to use when checking. Ex. 1 inch = A, D Check
to see that the glass with "1 inch" has straw A and D inside.
Nonstandard Measurement:
Give each student a straw or straws and have them use
them to measure different objects in the classroom such as the
table, a piece of paper, a computer, etc. Be prepared for
discussing too much, not enough, half, etc. You can also cut
the straws into shorter pieces for "mini straws" or even use
stirring sticks, which look like mini straws to me anyway. :)
"Hello, Mouse"
(Tune: Where Is
Thumbkin?)
Hello, Mouse.
Hello, Mouse.
How are you?
Fine, thank you.
Would you like a
cookie?
Would you like a
cookie?
Yes, thank you.
Yes, thank you.
Here is your
cookie.
Here is your
cookie.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
May I have some
milk?
May I have some
milk?
Yes, you may.
Yes, you may.
Here is your
milk.
Here is your
milk.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
May I have a
straw?
May I have a
straw?
Yes, you may.
Yes, you may.
Here is your
straw.
Here is your
straw.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
May I have a
napkin?
May I have a
napkin?
Yes, you may.
Yes, you may
* the song keeps
going through:
Here is your
napkin./ May I have a mirror?
Here is the
mirror./May I have some scissors?
Here is the
scissors./May I have a broom?
Here is the
broom./I will sweep the floor.
That's ok.
That's ok.
©
Cindy Montgomery
2004
This song not
only reinforces the sequence through the first part of the book, it
also reinforces manners.
M is for Mouse:
Enlarge a picture of a cute mouse (and a large tummy
would be even better) on posterboard and color. Program with
Mm and laminate. Cut pictures from magazines, clip art, etc.
and to make small picture cards; laminate. Make sure you have
plenty of pictures that begin with /m/ and some that do not.
Students will sort pictures that begin with /m/ onto the mouse.
This activity can be made into a file folder activity for individual
use as well.
Estimation:
Fill a small, clear cookie/candy jar with mini
chocolate chip cookies. Students will estimate how many
cookies are in the jar and write their estimates on a slip of paper
and drop them into a glass. When everyone has had a chance to
complete their estimate, record each estimate on a graph or chart
paper. Then have students help count the cookies. Share
the cookies with the students, and the person who guessed the
correct answer or the closest to the correct answer will get to
carry the remaining cookies (or at least a snack bag) home with
them.
More/Less/Same/Equal/Too
Many/Not Enough: Using mini cookies would be a great
way to introduce/reinforce these math terms.
Story Starters:
If you give a
mouse a _____, he will ...
Sequencing:
Draw a circle on a sheet of 12x18 brown construction
paper the size of the paper. Divide the circle into 13
sections (hmmm ... wonder if that's even possible?). Place a
picture in each section for something that the mouse wanted or did
in the book.
Sections:
1 - cookie |
2 - milk |
3 - straw |
4 - napkin |
5 - mirror |
6 -
scissors |
7 - broom |
8 - mop |
9 -
pillow/
blanket |
10 - book |
11 - paper/
crayons |
12 - pen |
13 - tape |
|
If you need to
make the sections an even number (12), then leave out the mop.
The books just says that he "may end up washing the floor."
I just realized
that this story isn't a true circle story, or at least what I think
of as a circle story. Yes, it can go on and on, BUT ... at the
end of the story the book says, "Looking at the refrigerator will
remind him that he's thirsty." Why oh why, couldn't Laura
Numeroff have written, "Looking at the refrigerator will remind him
that he's HUNGRY." Then he could have asked for a cookie and
the whole cycle could have begun again. By writing that he's
thirsty, she's reversed the order of the cookie and the milk. :(
Story Props:
Provide story props for your students to use in
retelling the story. Store them in a large clear, plastic
"cookie jar". You can even use a regular clear, plastic
container with a wide mouth and add a "Cookie Jar" label to it.
That instantly turns it into an official cookie jar! :)
Inside the jar
you can place a treat bag of mini cookies, a empty 1/2 pint milk
carton (make sure you wash it good :(~ ), a straw, a small mirror, a
pair of student scissors, a tiny craft broom, a tiny mop (or a
picture), a scrap of fabric for a blanket, a miniature book, a small
box of 8 crayons, a pen, and an empty tape dispenser. Model,
model, model, how to the props to retell the story. Then let
everyone have a chance to practice with a partner. Afterwards
ask for volunteers to retell in front of the class. When
you're finished using it in whole group, add it to a Center to be
used individually or in pairs.
Lakeshore also
sells the Big Book and the accompanying story props. However,
you'll have to supplement the set, because for some reason they did
not provide all the props needed.
More Estimating:
How many chocolate chips will fit on a cookie?
Let's see. Divide your students into groups and give each a
large size paper cookie, or provide each student with a regular size
paper cookie. Have them estimate how many chips they think it
will take to cover their cookie and record their answers. Then
provide them with enough chocolate chips to cover their cookie.
Have them record the actual number of chips it took as well.
You can graph the results if you choose.
Groups of 10:
Right now, I'm having a hard time trying to teach my
math students about groups of 10 and extras (1st grade Saxon Math).
So I'm going to use paper chocolate chip cookies and real chocolate
chips to practice. The students will each be given some
chocolate chips and have access to a stack of paper cookies.
They will count out chips into groups of 10 and place each group on
a cookie. Extras will be contained on a small paper plate.
Then the students will draw the correct number of cookies on a piece
of paper along with the correct number of chips (10) on each cookie.
They will draw the extras on the paper plate. They will
record:
___ groups
____ extras ____ chips
To count the
chips, they have to count the chips by 10s and then be able to add
on the extras by counting by 1s. All of this is really hard
for my students to grasp.
Counting:
Draw 4 or 5 cookies on a page without chips. Place a number
beside or underneath each cookie. Copy onto brown construction
paper. Students will use Q-tips to dot dark brown or black
paint on each cookie to make the appropriate number of chips.
Cookie Addition:
Give each student two chocolate chip cookies. Have them count
the number of chips in each cookie and write down their answers.
Then have them add the two numbers together to get the total number
of chips in the cookies. In Saxon Math, we do a story problem
each day and draw the picture to go with it. You could do the
same with this activity. Have them draw their cookies with the
correct number of chips on each one, then write a number sentence
and how many chips in all.
ABC Order:
Program each paper cookie with a word. Laminate and add a
magnet to the back. Students alphabetize the words on the side
of a filing cabinet or magnetic board. Store the cookies in a
cookie tin. If you'd like to have more than one set of words
in the tin, use different kinds of cookies. Ex. one set of
words on chocolate chip cookies, one set on Oreos, one set on sugar
cookies, one set on cookies with a hole, etc.
Class Book:
If You Give Ms. ____'s Class A ... Have each student
complete the sentence frame, "If you give (student name) a ____
he/she will ___. Type up each student's
response on a separate page and have them illustrate it. Then
bind all the pages into a class book. Reread the book many
times to the class so that they're very familiar with it before
putting it in the Reading Center.
Another Class Book:
Have your students vote on one thing to use in rewriting the book.
For instance, if they choose a leprechaun (since it's close to St.
Patrick's Day) it might say something like:
If You Give a
Leprechaun Some Magic
If you give a
leprechaun some magic, he will want to make some gold. If he
makes some gold, he will want to hide it. If he hides the
gold, he'll want a rainbow to mark the spot. To make a
rainbow, he'll need some colors. etc.
Go Togethers:
I have several activities for Go Togethers that I'll pull out to
use. One summer when I was working on my Master's, I made a
set of Go Together cards using Print Artist. I printed created
a grid on a full sheet, then added two pictures that go together,
one in each box of the grid. For example, a street and a stop
sign, a tree and a basket of apples, etc. I printed these on
cardstock, laminated them, and cut them out. They look very
good and have held up really well. And my kids enjoy working
with them.
I also have a Go
Together activity that I purchased at Dollar Tree. It also has
pictures of things that go together and I have another Go Together
activity from Lakeshore. It is very cute! It has
miniature things that go together such as a toothbrush and
toothpaste; a toilet and a plunger! :)
When creating
for this book, make sure to include: cookie/milk, glass/straw,
mirror/scissors, mop/bucket, crayons/paper, picture/tape,
pillow/blanket.
Cookieland:
At our last staff development, our principal challenged us to get
our students "out of their seat and on their feet"; mostly for 4th
and above. But, with that in mind, I've tried getting my
students "on their feet" even more than usual. So I created
this activity in an effort to do that.
Make a large
cookie pattern the size of a sheet of paper. Copy onto brown
construction paper. I copied enough to program a cookie with
each lowercase letter and enough for the numbers 1 - 20. (46 cookies
.. I'm still cutting them out!) I cut out the letters and
numbers in brightish colors using the Ellison. They'll be
glued onto the cookies with rubber cement. Make a
large mouse and program it with "Start", and a glass of milk and
program it with "Finish." Make playing cards by programming index
cards with the lowercase letters and the numbers 1 - 20. Add
"move forward 2 spaces", "move backwards one space", etc. cards to
the stack as well. Everything will be laminated before use.
Spread the
cookies out on the floor in random order to form a path to create a
life size board game. Place the mouse at the beginning of the
path and the glass of milk at the end. Your students will be
life sized game pieces! :) The students will take turns
identifying the letter/number on the cards. If they correctly
identify the letter/number, they go stand by the letter/number
identified or follow the directions on the card. If they
do not get their card right, then they remain where they are and the
letter/number is told to the group. The card goes back into
the stack. The first person to "Finish" wins!
You can mix the
letters and numbers for a huge board game, or make it into two
different games. I'll do the latter. You can also
use this activity for reinforcing letter sounds as well.
Instead of identifying the letter, they identify the letter sound.
I also intend on using this with sight word cards. The
students will ignore the letters/numbers on the cookies and simply
use them as a pathway. If they can read the sight word, they
advance one space, if they can't, they don't. First one to
finish wins. The good thing about this is that you can make
your path as long or short as you'd like.
Exploring Volume:
This is another one of the kindergarten benchmark objectives and
milk containers are perfect for this activity. Collect milk
cartons in one gallon, one quart, one pint, and 1/2 pint.
Students can explore and discuss which one holds more and less.
To continue the activity, remove the carton they chose correctly,
and keep asking the question. Eventually you should be down to
one container. I also have collected a chocolate milk quart
container and a white milk quart container that are totally
different in shape. This will be the ones that I look for them
to identify when I ask, "Which two do you think would hold the same
amount of milk?"
Story Problems:
Make a cookie jar math mat for each student.
Provide them with several small cookie cut-outs. As you read
a story problem to the class, the students add or subtract cookies
in their jar. You can see at a glance who has a grasp of the
concept.
Shapes:
I have an activity at school that goes along with the cookie
theme. I purchased it at Big Lot's. The pieces look
like Oreo cookies and you unscrew them. On one side of the
cookie half is a protruding shape, and on the other half of the
cookie is an indented shape. For the two cookie halves to
screw back together, the student must match up the correct shapes.
Drama:
In your kitchen, set up for the students to bake cookies!
Pretend ones that is. :) Provide a cookie sheet, spatula,
bowl, wooden spoon, apron, some empty spice canisters, maybe a
couple of large plastic jars labeled "Sugar" & "Flour" for
canisters, some plastic Easter eggs in an egg carton, and an empty
plastic oil and milk container. Then watch the mixing
begin!!! You can also add some brown or homemade playdough
(add in Hersey's Cocoa Mix for color and aroma) so that they can
make their cookies to bake. Don't forget a toy size rolling
pin and some round cookie cutters; they're a hit! For
literacy, add a Grocery List and a pencil for the students to
write down things they're running out of or need to purchase at
the grocery store.
Story Sort:
Which things did you see in the story? Provide pictures of
things that were in the story as well as things that were not.
(You can find pictures for each letter here <http://www.kizclub.com/flashcards.htm>
if you're in need of clipart ... just reduce them in size and copy
onto cardstock.) Have students sort things that were in the
story into a plastic "cookie jar" (plastic jar labeled Cookies).
Art Project:
Print out the pattern and copy onto appropriate color construction
paper. If you'd like students to create their own face (eyes
and nose pattern provided), white out the eyes and nose on the face
before printing. Students cut out pieces and glue onto a sheet
of construction paper. The "rough draft" page provided is so
that you can see how to put him together at a glance, reserving all
that brain energy for your students. :) Do not try to adjust
your computer, :) this mouse is actually blue with an orange cookie.
I didn't have gray and brown construction paper here at home.
printable pattern
Culminating Activity:
Buy tubes of chocolate chip cookie dough, or even
those new pull apart cookies, and have students help make and bake
them. Mmmm! Yummy!!!! Of course if you give them a
cookie, you'll have to give them some milk to go with it! :)
And if you give them some milk, you'll have to give them a straw to
go with it! And if you give them a straw, you'll have to give
them a napkin as well!
Afterwards, I have the students help come with the steps for baking
cookies. After we agree on the steps, I write them in simple
sentences on sentence strips and put them in the pocketchart. We
read them several times, then mix up the sentences and work to put
them back in order. Then I put all the sentence strips out on a
table and have the students tell me what comes first, next, etc. I
show them the sentence strip and they put it in the pocketchart. (If
they can read it, then they just read and place it there on their
own.) They keep working on it until it's "just right."
We baked cookies yesterday and our steps for that were:
1) Plug in the oven. (We're talking about a toaster oven here. We
tried baking without it being plugged in. :) I didn't realize it
was unplugged!!! So they thought that was funny.)
2) Turn on the oven. (to warm up)
3) Put the cookies on the pan. (we used those pull-apart cookies)
4) Bake the cookies for 10 minutes.
5) Put the cookies on a plate. (to cool)
6) Eat the cookies!
The children
loved doing this and the cookies were very good. We used
Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chunk Cookies. I think one package
made 24 cookies. Of course, we're adding the package to our
Environmental Print Wall and we talked about "c" and the /c/ sound,
"ch" and the /ch/ sound, and square (since the cookies are pre-cut
into squares). We could have also talked about "dozen", but
we're not quite ready for that yet. :)
Book Extensions:
Mouse Count ~
Ellen S. Walsh
Mouse Paint ~
Ellen S. Walsh
Four Brave
Sailors ~ Mirra Ginsburg
Frederick ~ Leo
Lionni
The Little
Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, And The Big Hungry Bear ~ Don and
Audrey Wood
Norman The
Doorman ~ Don Freeman
The Mouse and the
Motorcycle ~ Beverly Cleary
Come Out and
Play, Little Mouse ~ Robert Kraus
Where Are You
Going, Little Mouse ~ Robert Kraus
The Lion and the
Mouse
Town Mouse,
Country Mouse (Jan Brett has a version of this)
Cookie Count, A
Tasty Pop-Up ~ Robert Subuda
Who Took the
Cookies From the Cookie Jar? ~ Lass, Bonnie, & Philemon Sturgess
Mmm, Cookies! ~
Robert Munsch
The Cookie-Store
Cat ~ Cynthia Rylant
Gus and Grandpa
and the Christmas Cookies ~ Claudia Mills
Woodrow, the
White House Mouse ~ Peter W. Barnes
Cat and Mouse in
the Rain ~ Tomek Bogacki
Little Mouse's
Big Valentine ~ Thacher Hurd
If You Take a
Mouse To School ~ Laura Numeroff
Whose Mouse Are
You? ~ Robert Kraus
Mouse Views -
What the Class Pet Saw ~ Bruce McMillan
Mousekin's
Family ~ Edna Miller
House Mouse,
Senate Mouse ~ Peter & Cheryl Barnes
Ralph S. Mouse ~
Beverly Cleary
A Mouse Called
Wolf ~ Dick King-Smith
Mouse Tales ~
Arnold Lobel
A Mouse In My
House - Nancy Van Laan
Resources:
If You Give A Mouse a Cookie - The Mailbox K-1 Oct/Nov
2005
Whole Language Units for Predictable Books
#206 - Teacher Created Materials 1995
Laura Numeroff -
The Mailbox Kindergarten Oct/Nov 1999
Mouse Poem - The
Mailbox Kindergarten Aug/Sept 1997
Mouse Patterns -
The Mailbox Kindergarten Aug/Sept 1997
Elephant and
Mouse booklet and song - The Mailbox Kindergarten
Aug/Sept 1997
Cheesy Treats
(mouse) - The Mailbox Kindergarten Dec/Jan 1998 - 99
Mouse Patterns -
The Mailbox Kindergarten Apr/May 1999
Mouse Patterns -
The Mailbox Kindergarten Aug/Sept 1999
Little Mouse -
The Mailbox Kindergarten June/July 2000
Mouse Patterns -
The Mailbox Kindergarten June/July 2000
Mouse
Reproducible - The Mailbox Kindergarten June/July 2001
Merry Mouse
Cookie - The Mailbox Kindergarten Dec/Jan 2001-2002
Mouse Hunt Game
- The Mailbox Kindergarten Dec/Jan 2001-2002
Mouse Patterns -
The Mailbox Kindergarten June/July 2002
Bulletin Board:
Quiet As A Mouse Behavior - The Mailbox Kindergarten
June/July 2002
If You Take a
Mouse To School - The Mailbox Kindergarten Aug/Sept 2003
Mouse Cookies -
The Mailbox Kindergarten Aug/Sept 2003
Writing Mouse
Poetry - Teacher's Helper Feb/Mar 1998
Mouse Pattern -
The Mailbox Primary Oct/Nov 2001
Mouse Pattern -
The Mailbox Primary Dec/Jan 2000 - 2001
Mouse Count -
The Mailbox Kindergarten Aug/Sept 1997
A Mouse In My
House - The Mailbox Kindergarten Dec/Jan 1997 - 1998
Mouse Paint -
The Mailbox Kindergarten Dec/Jan 1998 - 1999
Mouse Paint -
The Mailbox Kindergarten Aug/Sept 2001
Mouse Paint -
The Mailbox Kindergarten Aug/Sept 2002
Mouse Paint -
The Mailbox Kindergarten Aug/Sept 2003
Cat and Mouse In
the Rain - The Mailbox Kindergarten Dec/Jan 1998 - 1999
Mousekin's
Family - The Mailbox Kindergarten Dec/Jan 1998-1999
The Little
Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Hungry Bear - The Mailbox
Kindergarten Aug/Sept 1999
Mouse Views -
What the Class Pet Saw - The Mailbox Kindergarten
Aug/Sept 1999
Where Are You
Going, Little Mouse? - The Mailbox Kindergarten
June/July 2000
Whose Mouse Are
You? - The Mailbox Kindergarten June/July 2000
Come Out and
Play, Little Mouse - The Mailbox Kindergarten June/July
2000
Come Out and
Play, Little Mouse - The Mailbox Kindergarten Oct/Nov
2002
Little Mouse's
Big Valentine - The Mailbox Kindergarten Feb/Mar 2001
The Town Mouse
and the Country Mouse - The Mailbox Kindergarten Apr/May
2001
Woodrow, the
White House Mouse - The Mailbox Kindergarten Feb/Mar 2002
The Little
Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Hungry Bear - The Mailbox
Primary Aug/Sept 1997
The Mouse and
the Motorcycle - The Mailbox Primary June/July 1998
Mouse Tales -
The Mailbox Primary Apr/May 1999
A Mouse Called
Wolf - The Mailbox Primary Dec/Jan 2000 - 2001
House Mouse,
Senate Mouse - The Mailbox Primary Apr/May 2002
Ralph S. Mouse -
The Mailbox Primary Feb/Mar 2004
Links:
If You Give a
Mouse a Cookie Lesson Plans and Resources
http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Teachers/Literature/LMouse.html
If You Give a
Mouse a Cookie
http://www.hubbardscupboard.org/if_you_give_a_mouse_a_cookie.html
Lesson: Give a
Mouse a Cookie (Gr. 1 - 3)
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/mouse.htm
If You Give a
Mouse a Cookie (Gr. 1 - 4)
http://atozteacherstuff.com/lessons/mouse.shtml
TeacherView: If
You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Gr. 1)
http://www.eduplace.com/tview/pages/i/If_You_Give_a_Mouse_a_Cookie_Laura_Joffe_
Numeroff.html
If You Give a
Mouse a Cookie
http://www.dltk-kids.com/books/mousecookie.html
Reading Rainbow:
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Family Activity
http://pbskids.org/readingrainbow/parents_and_teachers/activity_097.html
If You Give a
Mouse a Cookie Program
http://sanmarinopl.org/camera/mouse.htm
Kidspired Tales
2002
http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~ptk1nc/kidspired2002/mouseexample.html
Sub Unit for If
You Give a Mouse a Cookie
http://geocities.com/crgoudie/MouseCookie.html
If You Give a
Mouse a Cookie
http://teachingheart.net/mousecookie.html
Lion/Mouse
headband (printable)
http://www.kizclub.com/craft/headband/Animal-Headband3.pdf
Mouse Activities
http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/pets-mouse.htm
Mice Theme
http://stepbystepcc.com/animals/mice.html
Mice
http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com/thispartictopic.cfm?BookTopic=25
If You Give A
Mouse A Cookie
http://www.dltk-teach.com/books/mousecookie.html
Mouse Coloring
page
http://www.csberry.com/sketchs1/csNibblechez.gif
Cause and Effect
Graphic Organizer
http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/worksheets/Cause%20and%20Effect.pdf
If You Give A
Mouse A Cookie Dominoes
http://kidscrafts.suite101.com/article.cfm/give_a_mouse_a_cookie_dominoes
Mouse Alphabet
Cards
http://kidscrafts.suite101.com/article.cfm/mouse_aphabet_cards
Count the
Cookies Math Mat
http://kidscrafts.suite101.com/article.cfm/count_the_cookies_math_mat
If You Give a
Mouse a Cookie Shadow Match Game
http://kidscrafts.suite101.com/article.cfm/if_you_give_a_mouse_a_cookie_match
If You Give a
Mouse a Cookie Vocabulary Words
http://kidscrafts.suite101.com/article.cfm/if_you_give_a_mouse_a_cookie_words

If you give a moose a
muffin,
chances are he'll want
some jam ...
and another muffin ..
and another ...
Will it ever end?
Vocabulary for Thematic
Word Wall
moose |
muffin |
house |
blackberry
jam |
mother |
store |
muffin mix |
sweater |
door |
buttons |
needle |
thread |
sew |
grandmother |
puppet |
mess |
socks |
puppet
show |
cardboard |
paint |
couch |
antlers |
sheet |
bed |
ghost |
Halloween |
Boo! |
soap |
clothesline |
yard |
blackberry
bush |
boy |
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Here's some of
the words in the Word Wall pocketchart for both the Mouse and the
Moose book. I use clipart from the 'net and print it in color
onto cardstock. Then I cut it out and glue it to a sentence
strip and add the word. These are also laminated for
durability.
We've Got Mail!:
The moose from Kohl's comes to
visit! I put these stuffed visitors in our Reading Center and
the students enjoy reading to them.
Counting:
Graphing:
Give each student a taste test of 3 different kinds
of muffins (blueberry, strawberry, chocolate chip, chocolate,
bran, banana nut, apple). Let them graph which is their
favorite. We used Post-It notes to create a bar graph.
They wrote their name on their note and placed it in the
appropriate place. The two colors depict the morning and the
afternoon class.
Moose Antlers:
Provide each student with a pair of antlers copied
onto stiff brown paper (if you make them too big they're going to
flop over). Have them cut them out and staple them to a
brown strip of construction paper. Adjust it to fit their
head and staple.
*Tip* Here's a
tip I just read about somewhere this week: Instead of
overlapping the construction paper strip and stapling it around
their head, take a rubberband and slip one end of the strip
through it and staple. Then slip the other end of the strip
through the other side of the rubberband and staple. What
this is doing is giving the strip some "ease" so that they can
take it off and on without tearing it up. Picture a strip
around the head that's been cut too short and has a rubberband to
extend the strip.
Counting:
Use a muffin pattern page and program muffins each
with a number. Copy onto brown construction paper.
Students cut out muffins and use blue paint and a Q-tip to add
blueberries to the top of the muffin. Use the muffins for a
bulletin board or something. Make a large muffin tin using
aluminum foil and then add a large moose and "Marvelous Muffins"
or something catchy. What about "Moose-lous Muffins!" :)
M is for Moose:
Enlarge a moose onto posterboard. Color, cut
out and laminate. Program cards with pictures, many
beginning with the letter "m". Students sort pictures that
begin with "m" onto the moose. You can also replace the
picture cards with real items. M items: money, macaroni,
Mickey Mouse, makeup, monster, mom, milk, muffin, moose, M&Ms,
Milky Way, marker, mittens, mail, mouse, mayo.
Compare/Contrast:
Use a Venn Diagram to compare/contrast If You
Give a Mouse a Cookie and If You Give a Moose a Muffin.
Estimation:
Give each student a blueberry muffin and let them
estimate how many blueberries it might contain. Have them
record their estimate on a class graph/chart. Then let them
dig all the blueberries from their muffin. Add the actual
number of blueberries to the chart as well. Who got the
closest?
Name |
Estimate |
Actual |
John |
3 |
15 |
Carrie |
45 |
22 |
If you choose,
the students can post their own responses on the chart by writing
them on small Post-It notes and just sticking them on.
Muffin Cut-outs:
Muffin cut-outs can be used for many different
skills activities. You can program them with dots/numbers,
rhyming pictures, rhyming words, capital/lowercase letters, words
to alphabetize, numbers and ABCs to sequence, colors/color words,
pictures/beginning sounds, pictures/ending sounds, math
fact/answer, synonyms, contractions, pictures/blends. If you
cut each muffin in half, you can program each half with a word for
students to form compound words, words with prefixes/suffixes.
Make the
muffin cut-outs in different colors and you can use them for
practicing ordinals. Line them up in a pocketchart and let
the students identify which color is first, second, etc.
Word Families:
Use the format of the Word Family activity above in
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie but change it to match If
You Give a Moose a Muffin. Copy several moose on brown
construction paper and program each with a word family. Put
words on muffin cut-outs and students will sort the words onto the
correct moose.
Rhyming Words:
Using a cute moose graphic, copy several onto brown
construction paper. On each antler write a word or glue a
picture of things that rhyme (one antler: hat, other antler: cat).
Now cut the antlers off the moose. Laminate. Students
will place the antlers on the moose with rhyming words or
pictures.
**You can use
this format for any matching type activity. (see list above under
Muffin Cut-outs)
Story Problems:
Make a plate math mat for each student.
Provide them with several small muffin cut-outs. As you read
a story problem to the class, the students add or subtract muffins
on their plate. You can see at a glance who has a grasp of
the concept.
You could also
make muffin math mats and let them add/subtract real chocolate
chips or pretend chocolate chips (brown buttons) or blueberries
(blue buttons).
Puppets:
Provide a sock for each student to create their own puppet.
Model creating one with them before turning them loose, but then
let them go and see what they create.
Puppet Show:
After making the puppets, let each student don their moose antlers
and put on a puppet show. You can use two or three file folders stapled
together to create a l_l for them to get behind. Set the l_l
on a table. If you have the space and the time, you could
also give your students large pieces of cardboard and paint and
let them create background scenery similar to the one in the book.
Dozen:
Use the picture in the book of the two muffin tins to discuss a
dozen.
Story Props:
Lakeshore sells the Big Book and the accompanying story props.
However, you'll have to supplement the set, because for some
reason they did not provide all the props needed.
Culminating Activity:
Buy mixes for the class' favorite kind of muffin
(use results from taste testing graph) and let students mix and
bake them. If you need to, you can purchase muffin pans for
the microwave. Of course, if you give them a muffin, you
must give them blackberry jam to go with it. Yuck! :)
You might want to let them vote on the type of jam or provide
several different kinds ... and then you can graph their favorite!
Resources:
If You Give A Mouse a Cookie - The Mailbox K-1 Oct/Nov
2005
Laura Numeroff
- The Mailbox Kindergarten Oct/Nov 1999
The Mailbox
Kindergarten Aug/Sept 2001
Muffin pattern
- The Mailbox Kindergarten Dec/Jan 2002 - 2003
Moose pattern
- The Mailbox Kindergarten Oct/Nov 2000
Uses for
Mooses and Other Popular Pets - The Mailbox Primary
Apr/May 1998
Teacher's
Helper Oct/Nov 2001
- Story
Sequencing
- Story
Recall
-
Matching glad/sad
- Go
Togethers
- Story
Starter
Extension Books:
Spruce the
Moose Cuts Loose ~ Sarah Stapler
A Chocolate
Moose for Dinner ~ Fred Gwynne
Uses for
Mooses and Other Popular Pets - Mike Thaler
Moostache
Links:
Laura Numeroff's
Website
http://www.lauranumeroff.com/kids_fun/
If You Give a
Moose a Muffin Lesson Plans and Resources
http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Teachers/Literature/LMoose.html
If You Give a
Moose a Muffin by Laura J. Numeroff
http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/ifyougiveamoose.html
Moose and Pig
http://www.harperchildrens.com/hch/mouse/moose.asp
Folkmanis
Puppets - "If You Give a Moose a Muffin" and Moose Puppets
http://www.kidsbooksandpuppets.com/Folkmanis/moosebp.html
Printables
http://www.state.ar.us/childcare/moosemuffin.html

Vocabulary for Thematic
Word Wall
pig |
pancake |
maple
syrup |
pot |
table |
kitchen |
fork |
butter |
window |
bath |
sticky |
bubbles |
toy |
rubber
duck |
farm |
family |
closet |
suitcase |
clothes |
mess |
sweater |
bed |
tap shoes |
scarf |
music |
piano |
dancing |
camera |
picture |
sofa |
chair |
stool |
lamp |
books |
friends |
girl |
envelope |
stamps |
mailbox |
tree |
backyard |
tree house |
wheelbarrow |
wood |
hammer |
nails |
wallpaper |
glue |
plate |
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P is for Pancakes:
Make pancakes
and serve with pineapples, peanut butter, pears, peaches,
pecans, powdered sugar, preserves, peanuts. Students choose
the topping of their choice.
Graphing:
Of course you'll have to graph the students' favorite toppings and
later you might want to graph their favorite breakfast food.
Pink Pigs:
There are several different ways to make these pink pigs, but they
all pretty much consist of a large pink circle for the body, a
smaller pink circle for the head, and an even smaller pink circle
for the snout. You can cut the circles from pink construction
paper or have your students paint the backs of a dinner size and
dessert size white paperplate using pink paint. If you want
the snout, tail, and legs to match the painted plates, then you'll
have to paint construction paper to match. A milk jug cap
would be about the right size for the snout, so you could try
painting that, I've never tried it.
Anyway, you put
the middle sized circle on top of the larger circle and place it a
little towards the bottom. Then do the same with the snout on
the middle size circle. Add upside-down triangle ears to the
middle size plate as well as wiggly eyes. Cut a spiral from
pink paper to attach to the top of the large circle for a tail.
Cut pink rectangles for legs and cut a "v" notch in them to form the
feet. Use a black Sharpie to form nostrils on the snout.
Need a picture? You can see ours at
Old MacDonald's
Farm. We cut ours from construction paper.
Pink Pig-Sicles:
Mix together 2 C plain yogurt, 12 oz. unsweetened frozen
apple-cranberry juice concentrate, & 2 t vanilla. Pour the mixture
into small paper cups and insert plastic spoons for handles. Chill
in the freezer until set. Makes 8 to 10.
Pig Snouts:
Cut toilet tissue rolls in half and paint pink. Add a pink circle
to the end with nostrils. Punch two holes in the other end and add
string or yarn to tie them on with. Another idea would
be to use a pink egg carton cup or a paper egg carton cup painted
pink. You can add the circle using pink craft foam.
Don't forget to add nostrils with a black Sharpie!
Playdough Pigs:
Provide each student with a small chunk of pink playdough. Have
them roll balls of different sizes to form their own pig. Let
harden.
Recipe for Slop!:
Although the pig in this book doesn't seem as if she might be use to
eating slop (since she doesn't want to be sticky), she does mention
missing her family on the farm and you know what pigs on the farm
eat .........!
Slops
(makes 24 half-cup servings)
6 cups vanilla
yogurt
3 cups cut-up fruit
3 cups crunchy granola
1 cup grated carrots
1 cup nuts
Mix together all
ingredients. Serve in a paper cup or small bowl ... spoons are
optional! :)
Rhyming Words:
Program brown circles (pancakes) and small yellow squares (pat of
butter) with rhyming words; laminate. Students match the
correct pat of butter to the correct pancake.
Flipping Flapjacks!:
To make your own pancakes for a fine motor activity or your
Housekeeping Center, cut two brownish circles from compressed sponge
using the Ellison machine. Then hotglue the two circles
together to form a pancake. Place several of these, as well as
a cookie sheet turned upside down (this will serve as a griddle),
plates, and a spatula in your Housekeeping Center and watch the
flapjacks pile up! An empty bottle of syrup, a plastic knife,
forks, and a plastic butter tray would also be a nice finishing
touch.
Cut two brown
fun foam circles to make a pancake. Program the circles with
different skills, depending on needs. If you program the
pancakes with rhyming words, the students could use a spatula to
pick up the two words that rhyme. If they were correct, then
they could put the rhyming pair on their plate. The student
with the most pancakes at the end of the activity would win!
Flapjack Math!:
This is from Lakeshore. Students use the spatula to snag the
flapjack with the correct number of dots as well as the
corresponding numeral. This could easily be made; well, not as
nice as this, but acceptable. :)
Counting:
You can also use the sponge pancakes from above for several
different counting activities. Program a plate with a number
and let students add the correct number of pancakes. If you
made big paper pancakes inside each plate and programmed the pancake
with a number, you could have them add the correct number of pats of
butter, strawberries, etc. You could even use the
"blueberries" (blue beads) from If You Give A Moose A Muffin and
have them top the pancakes with them!
Bulletin Board:
Here's a catchy title for your bulletin board displaying student
work ...
Work that really
"stacks" up!
Decorate with
stacks of pancakes and a spatula!
Pig Hokey Pokey...
You put your
right hoof in;
You put your
right hoof out;
You put your
right hoof in and
You shake it all
about.
You do the Higgy-Piggy,
And you turn
yourself around,
That's what it's
all about!
Oink!
Continue the
song and dance routine with the following verses:
You put your
left hoof in....
You put your
right hamhock (hip) in...
You put your
left hamhock in....
You put your
snout in....
You put your
curly tail in...
Counting Pigs
(tune: Ten
Little Indians)
One little, two
little, three little pigs,
Four little,
five little, six little pigs,
Seven little,
eight little, nine little pigs,
Ten are in the
mud.
All are pink
with pudgy noses,
They don't smell
a bit like roses,
Curly tails that
look like hoses.
Rolling in the
mud.
Ten little, nine
little, eight little pigs,
Seven little,
six little, five little pigs,
Four little,
three little, two little pigs.
One is in the
mud.
~ Author Unknown
*can use this
song with flannelboard
Pigs
Pigs are playful.
Pigs are pink.
Pigs are smarter
Than you think.
Pigs are slippery.
Pigs are stout.
Pigs have noses
Called a snout.
Pigs are pudgy.
Pigs are plump.
Pigs can run.
But never jump.
Pigs are loyal.
Pigs are true.
Pigs don't care for
Barbecue!
~ Charles Ghigna
Patterning:
Cut pigs from different colors of construction paper using the
Ellison machine. Have students use them to practice making
patterns. Throw in some tan circles for pancakes as well.
The Pancake Man
(tune: The
Muffin Man)
Oh, do you know
the Pancake Man?
The Pancake Man?
The Pancake Man?
Oh, do you know
the Pancake Man?
He has the
frying pan!
~ Author Unknown
Pancakes
Pancakes are
sticky.
Pancakes are
sweet.
Pancakes are
yummy.
Good to eat!
Yummy in the
morning.
Yummy at night.
Open your mouth
and
Take a bite.
~ Author Unknown
Pancakes:
If you want to serve pancakes to your class but don't have what it
takes to actually make them, buy the frozen ones from Eggo and
they're very tasty. You just pop them in the microwave to
heat.
Non-standard
Measurement: Use paper pigs, pancakes, spatulas, etc. to
measure specified items in the classroom. Create a response
chart for students to complete with their findings.
Mix A Pancake
Mix a pancake.
Stir a pancake.
Pop it in a pan.
Fry the pancake.
Toss the
pancake.
Catch it if you can!
~ Author Unknown
Book Extensions:
Like Butter On
Pancakes - Jonathan London
Pancakes,
Pancakes! - Eric Carle
Pancakes for
Breakfast - Tomie dePaola
Let's Make
Pancakes - Nancy Parent
Pancake Pie -
Sven Nordquist
The Pancake Boy - Lorinda Cauley
Pancakes - Val Marshall (The Wright
Group)
The Pancake by
Anita Lobel
The Runaway
Pancake -
P.C. Asbjornsen
Curious George Makes Pancakes
The Three
Little Pigs
The Three Pigs
- David Wiesner
Ziggy Piggy
and the Three Little Pigs - Frank Asch
Pigs Ahoy! -
David McPhail
Pink Pigs
Aplenty - Sandy Nightingale
The True Story
of the 3 Little Pigs! - Jon Scieszka
Pigs Aplenty,
Pigs Galore - David McPhail
Pigs On A
Blanket - Amy Axelrod
Pigs Will Be
Pigs - Amy Axelrod
Perfect Pigs -
Marc Brown
A Treeful of
Pigs - Arnold Lobel
Those Can-Do
Pigs - David McPhail
Pigsty - Mark
Teague
Resources:
Laura Numeroff
- The Mailbox Kindergarten Oct/Nov 1999
The Mailbox
Kindergarten Dec/Jan 2001-2002
Piggie's
Picnic - The Mailbox Preschool/Kindergarten Aug/Sept
1990
Tiger Pancakes
(might be able to adapt this) - The Mailbox Kindergarten
Feb/Mar 1999
Pigs pattern -
The Mailbox Kindergarten Feb/Mar 2000
Z-Z-Zoink -
The Mailbox Kindergarten Apr/May 2000
Pigs Lotto
Gameboard - The Mailbox Kindergarten Dec/Jan 2000-2001
Pigs - The
Mailbox Primary Feb/Mar 1998
Pigs - The
Mailbox Primary Apr/May 1998
Pigs - The
Mailbox Primary Aug/Sept 1998
Pig Pattern -
The Mailbox Primary Oct/Nov 1998
Piggy Popcorn
Balls - The Mailbox Primary Feb/Mar 2000
Pigs Ahoy! -
The Mailbox Kindergarten Jun/Jul 1998
Like Butter On
Pancakes - The Mailbox Kindergarten Apr/May 1999
Pink Pigs
Aplenty - The Mailbox Kindergarten Feb/Mar 2000
The Three
Little Pigs - The Mailbox Kindergarten Jun/Jul 2002
The Three Pigs
- The Mailbox Kindergarten Jun/Jul 2002
The True Story
of the 3 Little Pigs! - The Mailbox Kindergarten
Jun/Jul 2002
Ziggy Piggy
and the Three Little Pigs - The Mailbox Kindergarten Jun/Jul
2002
The Three
Little Pigs - The Mailbox Kindergarten Aug/Set 2003
Pigsty - The
Mailbox Primary Apr/May 1998
Pigs On A
Blanket - The Mailbox Primary Aug/Sept 1998
Pigs Will Be
Pigs - The Mailbox Primary Aug/Sept 1998
Perfect Pigs -
The Mailbox Primary Aug/Sept 1998
A Treeful of
Pigs - The Mailbox Primary Apr/May 1999
The Three
Little Pigs - The Mailbox Primary Jun/Jul 1999
The Three
Little Pigs - The Mailbox Primary Oct/Nov 2003
Those Can-Do
Pigs - The Mailbox Primary Aug/Sept 2000
Pancakes! -
The Mailbox Kindergarten Feb/Mar 1997
Pancakes for
Breakfast - The Mailbox Primary Aug/Sept 2001
Pancakes,
Pancakes! - The Mailbox Primary Dec/Jan 2000-2001
Pigs Aplenty,
Pigs Galore - The Mailbox Primary Oct/Nov 2002
Pancakes -
February Monthly Idea Book Preschool/K
TEC212
Pancakes -
Teacher's Helper Feb/Mar 1997
Pancake Songs
-
Theme-A-Saurus by Jean Warren
Links:
If You Give a
Pig a Pancake Reader's Theatre (1st gr)
http://www.smbsd.org/uploaded/reading/files/First_grade_reading/Readers_theater/Pig_Pancake_Readers_Theater.pdf
If You Give a
Pig a Pancake Lesson Plans and Resources
http://www.kiddyhouse.com/Teachers/Literature/LPig.html
Moose and Pig
http://www.harperchildrens.com/hch/mouse/moose.asp
The Piggery
http://www.pigaroo.com/index.shtml
Pigs Thematic
Unit
http://www.thelearningleap.com/
Pigs
http://www.calicocookie.com/pigs.html
Fun Learning
About Pigs
http://www.geocities.com/piggysnow/
Pigs Dancing
graphic
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~alex/graphics/pigs02.gif
The Piggy in the
Puddle and 3 Pigs
http://lovetoteach.homestead.com/PigUnit.html
Pig Shape Book
Cover (printable)
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/hme/k_5/shapebook/pdf/gardengate_wl.pdf
Pig Shape Book
Page (printable
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/hme/k_5/shapebook/pdf/pigwol.pdf
Pancakes,
Pancakes!
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/521.html
If You Give A
Pig A Pancake printables
http://www.arkansas.gov/childcare/services/printedmats/pdf/story/pigpancake.pdf

Links:
Linda's Links to
Literature
http://www.richmond.k12.va.us/readamillion/LITERATURE/literature_lesson_plans_i.htm
Laura Numeroff
Teacher Resource File
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/numeroff.htm
Author Study
http://www.myschoolonline.com/folder/0,1872,12026-171840-15-46581,00.html#three
Author Study:
Laura Numeroff
http://emints.more.net/ethemes/resources/S00001057.shtml
Kidsreads.com -
If You Give A ... Series
http://www.kidsreads.com/series/series-mouse.asp
If You Give a
Penguin a Popsicle
http://www.globalclassroom.org/popsicle.html
Ponton's Pond
http://myschoolonline.com/folder/0,1872,12026-171840-15-46581,00.html
If You Take a
Mouse to School
http://k2printables.com/documents/mouse_to_school.ABC.pdf
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