We have been reading a variety of stories recently that are interactive and use props. Many of the children like to retell the story with the items to support the storyline. This is a valuable literacy activity as the students must attend to the story, understand character and follow a plot, demonstrating beginning, middle and end concepts. Be sure to ask your child about some of these stories! We read Robert Munsch's Smelly Socks, complete with socks.
We have read and acted out the Napping House which is a beautiful, gentle story that is rich in vocabulary about all the animals who are sleeping, except the wakeful flea!
We read The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the big Hungry Bear, and everyone got to wear a disguise!
We have read Mouse Count, a story of a hungry snake and 10 tiny mice.
Some students even made their own paper tube snakes.
One of the mice. It was great to see so any students retell this story!
Probably one of our favorite books we've read is Mouse Paint!
Some lively little mice get into red, yellow and blue paint, then mix the paint to make green, purple and orange. The students LOVED listening to this story as told with mice and paint cans and were thrilled to see the mice change color as if by magic!!!
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