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Art Ideas:
*The Mouse Mobile: I drew a picture of several types of cookies and a mouse. I also drew a picture of various objects found within the book. The children had to then color the pictures and then cut them out. We then made a mobile out of the various shapes. *If You Give a Mouse a Puzzle: I drew several pictures of events in the story. I then had the children color the pictures and then cut them into pieces to create a puzzle. You may then laminate it to help them to last longer. Have the students trade the picture puzzles and see if they can solve them. *Design a Cookie Jar: Give the children a blank cookie jar pattern and have them design their own cookie jar. You can also have them draw one or make one out of clay. Language Arts Ideas: *Have the children write a story related to the story. Here are some possible prompts: Why I Like Cookies, A ___________ Stole My Cookie, The Magic Cookie, Cookies in My Lunch Box, How to Make a Cookie, The Great Cookie Mystery *The Letter C Sound: Give the children a blank cookie jar pattern. Give them blank cookie patterns as well. Have them then draw as many words as possible that begin with the hard letter C sound onto the blank cookies. Cut them out and glue them onto the blank cookie jar pattern. You can also do this for the soft letter C. *Picture Walk: Take a picture walk through the story. Do not read the text to the students. Have them see if they can figure out what is happening. *Pocket Chart Vocabulary: Place words from the story in a pocket chart (with a picture cue) so they may practice those vocabulary words. Possible Words: ask, crayon, milk, nap, pillow, straw, trim, cookie, give, mirror, remind, sweep, wash, crawl, hang, mouse, picture, story, thirsty, mustache, refrigerator *Mouse Puzzles: Go to Puzzle Maker and create various puzzles using vocabulary found within the story. Here is a list of some possible words: ask, crayon, milk, nap, pillow, straw, trim, cookie, give, mirror, remind, sweep, wash, crawl, hang, mouse, picture, story, thirsty, mustache, refrigerator *If You Give A Mouse a Cookie Sentence Completion: Have the students draw a picture to go with a phrase from the story. Here are some examples: If you give a mouse a cookie. He will ask for a glass of milk. He will look in the mirror. He will trim his hair. He will sweep his mess. He will wash the floors. He will probably take a nap. You will fix a little box for him to nap in. He will draw a picture. He will want to hang his picture. He will get thirsty. He will ask for a cookie. The same activity can be done for the spelling words found in the story. Have the students draw a picture of several of the terms: ask, crayon, milk, nap, pillow, straw, trim, cookie, give, mirror, remind, sweep, wash, crawl, hang, mouse, picture, story, thirsty *Cookie Bingo: Create your own cookie bingo by using several of the words listed above. You may also wish to use pictures for the smaller children. *Mix Em Up Chips: Create a sheet with boxes on them approximately 1/2
an inch in size. Write several key words found in the story onto the
sheet. Be sure to write 1 letter per box. Then, have the children cut
out the tiles. They are to them place them in some recycled and cleaned
Pringles cans. They are to then unscramble the letters to form various
bug words. If the have a difficult time, you may include a word list to
assist them. Here are some sample words: ask, crayon, milk,
nap, pillow, straw, trim, cookie, give, mirror, remind, sweep, wash,
crawl, hang, mouse, picture, story, thirsty *Cut and Paste Comprehension Check: Have the children cut out events from the story. (Type the event list into Word onto a table, one sentence per cell.) Once they have been cut out, have the students glue them down on a piece of paper into the correct order. Here is a sample list of events: If you give a mouse a cookie. He will ask for a glass of milk. He will look in the mirror. He will trim his hair. He will sweep his mess. He will wash the floors. He will probably take a nap. You will fix a little box for him to nap in. He will draw a picture. He will want to hang his picture. He will get thirsty. He will ask for a cookie. *Question and Answer Session: Have the children answer the following questions into complete sentences. What is your favorite part of the story? Why? Please describe the mouse. What happened after the mouse trimmed his hair? What made the mouse want to draw a picture? What did the mouse draw? Why do you think he drew that? Do you think the mouse will get some more cookies? Why or Why not? If you were the boy in this story, what would you do? What did you like about the story? What did you dislike? *Circular Stories: Have the students write their own story that is circular. You can even have each child come up with one page of a story and generate a circular class big book. *Interview with a Mouse: Have one child pretend that he is the mouse. Have the other child pretend to be a news reporter. Sample questions are found below. Have the reporter conduct an interview. If possible, videotape the exchange. Tell me about yourself Mr. Mouse. Why did you want the cookie? What made you trim your hair? What was the picture you drew and why? Who is the boy? Is he a friend of yours? Now that you have had so many cookies, what do you plan to do now? *Rhyming Madness: Make up a sheet of blank cookies. Then create a sheet with a cookie jar on it. Using the blank cookies, draw a picture and write the corresponding word on it. (brook, shook, ship, hip, dip, nook, book, trip, tip, took, chip, hook, cook, clip, whip, flip, rip, sip, look, and many more) Xerox the jar and then write Chip at the top of one and Book at the top of the other. Have the students then cut out the cookies with words and paste them to the jar that the word rhymes with. *The Letter B and C Sound: Give the children 2 blank cookie jar patterns. Also give them small blank cookie patterns as well. Then have them draw and write as many words that begin with B and C on each cookie. Have them then cut out the cookies and glue them to the jars. (One jar is for B and the other jar is for C). *Daily Cookie Times: Have the students make up a newspaper headline and article about the story. You can allow them to use Microsoft Word to create the newspaper. *Class Book: Have your class make up their own circular story. Songs and Poems: Five Little Mice
Five
little mice came out to play, Three Blind Mice Three blind mice,
Kitchen Mice
Five little mice hid behind the kitchen door. The first one said, "Let's run across the floor!" The second one said, "We can hide beside the chairs." The third one said, "But the family's sitting there." The fourth mouse called. "Hurry! Hurry! Follow Me!" The fifth mouse fell and bumped his knee. Five little mice scampered across the kitchen floor. And ate all the breakfast crumbs 'til there were no more. Math Ideas: *Bar Graphs- This book lends itself to graphing very easily. First of all, you can graph the students favorite cookies. You can also graph their favorite activities or even favorite Laura Numeroff books.
*Multiplication - Use animal crackers or small cookies to teach the
students multiplication. In addition to the animal crackers or small
cookies, you will also need paper plates or cups. To begin, introduce a
sample multiplication problem. 4 X 2 = ?. Tell the students that 4 X 2
is another way of saying 4 GROUPS of 2 COOKIES in each group. You then
take 4 plates and place 2 nimal crackers or small cookies on each plate.
Have one of the students then combine all the plates together and add up
the nimal crackers or small cookies. They will see that 4 GROUPS with 2
COOKIES in each group gives them a SUM of 8 COOKIES. By introducing
multiplication this way, you are demonstrating to the children how to
apply a math skill to solve the problem rather than use rote memory. Do
several examples like this. Then allow the children to solve the
problems. *Addition/Subtraction Science Ideas: *Cookie Break Down Time: Place different types of cookies in milk and then time how long it takes to break down each cookie. Cooking Ideas: *If You Give a Child a Cookie: Allow the children to bake and decorate a sugar cookie with icing and sprinkles. They do sell a cookie cutter in the shape of a mouse. If you can get it, that would really be neat for the children. If not, just make the cookies round. The kids still love decorating them regardless.
*Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe: For this book, there are several different cooking activities that you can try. First, you can bake cookies. Here is the recipe for those now infamous $250 Neiman Marcus Cookies. Ingredients: 2 cups butter, 4 cups flower, 2 tsp. soda, 2 cups sugar, 5 cups blended oatmeal**, 24 oz. chocolate chips, 2 cups brown sugar, 1 tsp. salt, 1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated), 4 eggs, 2 tsp. baking powder, 3 cups chopped nuts (your choice), 2 tsp. vanilla Directions: measure oatmeal and blend in a blender to a fine powder. Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla; mix together with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate chips, Hershey Bar and nuts. Roll into balls and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 112 cookies. Have fun!!! *Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe: 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup (2 sticks, 1/2 pound) butter, softened 3/4 cup granulated [white] sugar 3/4 cup packed brown sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 eggs 2 cups (12-ounce package) Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels 1 cup chopped nuts (optional of course) Directions: Mix the flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla in large mixer bowl. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition; gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in morsels and nuts. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets. BAKE in preheated 375-degree [Fahrenheit] oven for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Let stand for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely. PAN COOKIE VARIATION: PREPARE dough as above. Spread into greased 15"x10" jelly-roll pan. Bake in preheated 375-degree [Fahrenheit] oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool in pan on wire rack. *You may also wish to make Cookies and Cream Pudding. My students made this and loved it. Ingredients are 2 boxes instant chocolate pudding, 2 boxes instant vanilla pudding, 2 cookie crumb pie shells, 1 bag of Oreo cookies, milk Directions: Follow the directions on the puddings. Make both the chocolate and vanilla pudding. Have the children crush the Oreo cookies. Mix them into the pudding mixes. Be sure to save about a cup of crushed cookies. (My students were thrilled to be able to smash something with my permission) Put the mixes into the pie shell. Using the rest of the crumbs, gently spread remaining cookie crumbs onto the 2 pies. Chill and serve. *A Cookie Mouse: You will need 1 large round cookie, 2 vanilla wafers, cream cheese, 3 big chocolate chips, and shredded coconut
1. Spread the cream cheese on the cookies. 2. Place the chocolate chips on the large cookie. 3. Add shredded coconut for whiskers.
Suggested Links: Food TV: Just search for lots of fun and easy cookie recipes!
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Hi there!!
Welcome to my page devoted to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff. This is a wonderful book that I have used with pre-k, K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and even 5th graders. My 5th graders especially love doing the activities I have planned for this book. I hope you can use these ideas! Let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy, Christine
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