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I particularly enjoyed the framing device with the mitten windows giving a sneak peek into what was going to happen next. The illustrations are so wonderfully detailed I want to crawl inside them like the animals crawling inside Nicki’s mitten.
I particularly enjoyed the framing device with the mitten windows giving a sneak peek into what was going to happen next. The illustrations are so wonderfully detailed I want to crawl inside them like the animals crawling inside Nicki’s mitten.
Favorite book(s) of the month:
Wie Blut so rot, Schamlos, Diebe im Olymp
Books started this month but haven't finished yet:
Still, Wie Sterne so golden, Elias & Laia - In den Fängen der Finsternis, Im Bann des Zyklopen
Random ramblings:
I'M JUST SO HAPPY WITH MARCH!!!!! I seriously don't know what happened, but I actually managed to finish 5 books and I'M SO EXCITED!!! This month was also the month I finally dnf'd some of the books I kept dragging with me from month to month. It was time to admit that right now isn't the time for these books, I will go back to them later. Maybe. The books I actually finished this month were amazing. Most of them.
The Mitten by Jan Brett, is about Nicki, a young Ukrainian boy, who hopes that his grandmother will knit him some cozy white mittens. After she makes them for him, she warns that if he loses them, it will be difficult to find them in the snow. Nicki assures her that he won't lose them, but no sooner than he leaves the house, he drops one of them! As he searches for his lovely mitten, something very interesting takes place. The creatures of the forest are slowly making their home in his mitten: a mole, then a rabbit, a hedgehog, an owl, a badger, a fox, and a bear! They pack themselves in as tight as they can, but a small mouse manages to come in and his whiskers tickle the bear's nose. The bear sneezes, and all of the animals pop out of the mitten, causing it to sail in the air just as Nicki is about to give up. Grabbing the mitten triumphantly, he takes it back to his grandmother's house.
Guided Reading: Level M
Classroom Activities:
Use The Mitten to teach sequencing, predicting, and retelling a story. The students could retell the story using different voices.
Reading level and Leveling System:
Guided Reading: M
Lexile Measure: 600L
When Nicki drops his white mitten in the snow, he goes on without realizing that it is missing. One by one, woodland animals find it and crawl in; first, a curious mole, then a rabbit, a badger and others, each one larger than the last. Finally, a big brown bear is followed in by a tiny brown mouse. A story retell box is a way to show the students comprehension of the story. The box contains figures of the mitten, the little boy, and the animals that crawl into the mitten. As the students retell the story to the teacher or other students they use the figures to reenact the story.
