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Sunday, September 4, 2011

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - A Preschool/Kindergarten Unit

We are having some fun with the If You Give A..... series.

It all started with If You Take a Mouse to School during our Back to School week but once you read one book from this series - you can't just stop! So I decided we would do an author study and have some fun with the books in this series. There is so much fun to be had with these books!

Here's what we did for If You Give a Mouse a Cookie:

We started the day with Chocolate Chip French Toast
& it was a big hit with the Lil Divas.

Chocolate Chip French Toast

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Cookie ABC Match File Folder Game (Pre-K)


What You Need:
file folder
lt. brown construction paper
brown construction paper
markers
glue

What We Did:
Prep:
1. Cut small circles out of the lt. brown construction paper and label w/upper case letters of the alphabet
2. Cut chocolate chip shapes from dark brown construction paper and label w/lower case letters of the alphabet.
3. Glue the cookie shapes onto the file folder (I had 2 hanging off the very bottom that I folded up)

How to Play:

1. Child is given the chocolate chip shaped abc's and will match them to the correct ABC cookies


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Beginning Sound Cookie Match (Kindergarten)


What You Need:
file folder
lt. brown construction paper
brown construction paper
markers
glue

What We Did:
Prep:
1. Cut small circles out of the lt. brown construction paper and label w/letters of the alphabet
2. cut clip art pictures for the beginning sound of each letter of the alphabet
3. Glue the cookie shapes onto the file folder (I had 2 hanging off the very bottom that I folded up)

How to Play:

1. Child is given the clip art pictures and will match them to the correct alphabet cookies based on the beginning sound for each picture/word


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Chocolate Chip Cookie Math (Pre-K):


What You Need:
metal baking sheet
lt. brown construction paper
magnets
markers

What We Did:
Prep:
1. Cut a large circles out of the lt. brown construction paper and 10 small circles
2. number the small circles #1-10

How to Play:
1. Child is given the large cookie cutout on a metal baking sheet.
2. child will turn over the mixed up cookies labeled #1-10 and will add the correct number of chocolate chips (magnets) to correspond to the number on the small cookie shape.


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Chocolate Chip Addition (Kindergarten):


What You Need:
metal baking sheet
lt. brown construction paper
white construction paper
dry erase markers
eraser
transparent sheet protector

What We Did:
Prep:
1. Cut a small circles out of the lt. brown construction paper 
2. Glue 4 cookies to each side of a sheet of white construction paper with an addition sign in between and equal sign at the end (see photo above)
3. Add various amount of chocolate chips (dots w/dry erase markers) for simple addition

How to Play:
1. Child is given the cookie cutouts and will count the chocolate chips to add and will write the answer on the line provided.


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More Chocolate Chip Addition (Pre-K & K)


Pre-Kindergarten Version:


What You Need:
Cookie Crisp cereal
construction paper
dry erase markers
eraser
transparent sheet protector
foam dice




What We Did:
Prep:
1. Draw small circles on construction paper as plates (see photo above) & place in transparent sheet protector 

How to Play:
1. Child rolls dice and placesc cookies on plates to match number rolled
2. Child will count (add) cookies and write total on line provided
3. Erase and repeat for a new problem.



Kindergarten Version:
This version reviews how to write a correct number sentence for my Kindergartener

What You Need:
Cookie Crisp cereal
construction paper
dry erase markers
eraser
transparent sheet protector


What To Do:

Prep:
1. Draw circles on construction paper as plates (see photo above)
2. Draw lines and symbols for number sentence below (see photo)
3. Place sheet in transparent sheet protector

What To Do:
1. roll dice and add appropriate cookies to each plate
2. fill-in the number sentence with the appropriate numbers
3. add the cookies/numbers and write the total in the appropriate line


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Playtime Fun: Playdough Chocolate Chip Cookies

What You Need:
Lt. Brown or Brown Playdough
brown or black pompoms
roller
circle shaped cookie cutter


What To Do:
1. Let child roll out playdough with roller


2. cut out small circles for cookies


3. add pompoms as chocolate chips


4. Enjoy your playdough cookies



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 Snack: Chocolate Chip Cookies
(what else!)


Book:


Have you had any fun with this book? I'd love for you to share - leave me a comment/link!

Bern

14 comments:

  1. These last two posts are fabulous. We really like the "if you give.." book series. I am visiting from Creatively Content. I will look forward to coming over for Sunday (sounds like I am coming for tea :))for your child centered link up. Thanks for the invite and again these last two posts are great. I might just have to use some of these ideas.

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  2. I love those stories. My oldest loved If you give a mouse a cookie when he was little. We then bought the book that had all the stories in it. And yum...those cookies look delicious!!!

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  3. my daughter loves this book. thanks for the great ideas to make this book even more fun + educational!

    asheardy@yahoo.com

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  4. Very fun unit! My 6 year old just pulled that book back out, this morning - great book!

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  5. Now I want pancakes! What a wonderful unit!

    Thank you for linking to Read.Explore.Learn.

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  6. I l love the "If you give a......" series, and your ideas are simply adorable!!

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  7. Cookie math is a fabulous idea. I'm all for the subtraction part!

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  8. Love the playdough cookies and the magnet math. This is a favorite book at our house and one the kids want over and over so I'm always looking for new ways to extend the book! Thanks.

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  9. What a fun-filled week!! I LOVE all your activities! We just did some math using this book last week too.
    http://iheartcraftythings.blogspot.com/2011/09/if-you-give-mouse-cookie-activities.html

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  10. Seriously cute activities! I now want to eat a cookie :-)

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  11. What a fantastic unit! We are doing cookies and cupcakes sometime in February.....pinned most of these ideas. Thank you for sharing! :)

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  12. I have to say, learning in your house really is always fun :-) go you!

    Maggy

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  13. this is such a good idea! and I think I would add backing chocolate chip cookies after class :)

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  14. I really like the idea of matching lower and upper case letters together. It can be confusing for children. I need this for my granddaughter.
    Molino7atmsndotcom

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