The Mitten

 

During teacher read aloud the students have listened to several versions of the story "The Mitten". They have talked about what happened in each story and what was the same in each of the versions and what was different. Today in the morning a boy and a girl were very busy using the link cubes. As I was watching and listening to their conversations, I learned they had made a huge mitten with the link cubes. Then another little girl came and joined into the play situation.

Next they came and asked me if they could use some of the puppets and other stuffed animals to put into the mitten. They went on to explain that the mitten was huge so lots of animals could fit into this mitten. After they organized the animals into the mitten the three of them reinacted the story using the various animals they had placed inside the link chain mitten.