"The Mitten" and "The Hat"

I found this great idea from another first grade blogger. We read the story, "The Mitten" and discussed the story structure (characters, setting, problem, details, and solution). Then, we made big mittens to display the information we read in the story.


The next day, we read the story, "The Hat." An area we have been working on in first grade is comparing and contrasting stories. These two stories gave us the perfect opportunity to discuss how the stories are the same and different. We learned how to use a venn diagram to display the information.  We also made a fun brochure that told about the two different stories.


During reading stations on Friday, we sorted consonant clusters with l and r. The students put the word hands into the mitten clusters they belonged to.


With the cold weather we have been having lately, these were fun activities for us to do.