This week, 6B continued our discovery unit on mittens. We read the an old Ukranian folktale,"The Mitten", by Alvin Tresselt. In the story a little boy named Ivan goes out to gather wood in the forest. On his travels he looses one of his mittens. Nine different animals crawled into Ivan's mitten that cold winter day. Ask your child if they can remember what happened to the mitten when the tiny cricket crawled in?
After reading the story we began our extension lessons. We first made our very own mittens that fit the description of Ivan's lost mitten. We colored the outside yellow, and the inside red. Then, as a fine motor activity, we used yarn to sew the two sides of our mitten together. Once we had made our mittens we colored in and cut out the nine animals that crawled into the mitten during the story.
With all of our materials ready, we revisited the story during our next discovery class. As I read aloud, each student placed the proper animal into their own mitten. This activity was beneficial for all our learning styles. Auditory learners heard me read the story, while visual learners could see the illustrations in the book. Kinesthetic/tactile learners benefited from touching and physically placing the animals into mittens.
It was interesting to see if our mittens would stretch and pull like the mitten in the folktale? We quickly surmised that our mitten would not stretch because our animals were merely flat pieces of paper.
After we finished the story, we shook our animals out of the mittens. Then we were challenged with properly sequencing the animals as the appear in the folktale.
Great work 6B! Our story really came alive with this lesson.
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