5 Day Three Little Kittens Plan

Day 1: 

• Read The Three Little Kittens book to class (use Dr. Jean's reproducible from Teachin' Tunes, enlarge, copy on cardstock, color, laminate, and bind to make your own book)

• Re-tell the rhyme using The Three Little Kittens flannel board (see resources below)

• Sing The Three Little Kittens song (Dr Jean) Show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song. 

Day 2: 

• Read The Three Little Kittens book to class.

• Introduce The Three Little Kittens pocket chart from resource book (see reference below).  Have one student come to front and point to the words while whole class says rhyme. 

• Sing The Three Little Kittens song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song.

Day 3:

• Read  The Three Little Kittens book to class.

• Review The Three Little Kittens pocket chart.  Have one student come to front and point to the words while whole class says rhyme.

• Sing The Three Little Kittens song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song.

Day 4:

• Read The Three Little Kittens book to class

• Review The Three Little Kittens pocket chart.  Have one student come to front and point to the words while whole class says rhyme. 

• Sing The Three Little Kittens song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song.

Day 5:

• Read The Three Little Kittens book to class

• Review The Three Little Kittens pocket chart.  Have one student come to front and point to the words while whole class says rhyme. 

• Sing The Three Little Kittens song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song.

• Act out rhyme with entire class.

Act out the Rhyme

Materials:  3 sets of mittens, pie pan

Select three students to be "Three Little Kittens" and another student to be the "mother".  Have the three students hide their mittens around the room.  As the children are acting out the rhyme have the whole class say the rhyme out loud with you.  Continue acting out the rhyme until all students have had a turn to be one of the characters in the rhyme. 

Mitten Clothesline

Materials:  clothesline, clothespins, wallpaper sample books, die-cut machine

Use old wallpaper samples (your local wallpaper/paint store will probably donate old sample books to you) and die-cut pairs of mittens, one pair per child.  Next, string a clothesline in your classroom and put enough clothespins on it for every pair of mittens.  Hide one of the mittens from each pair around the classroom and pass out the other half to the class.  The students have to find the "lost" mate to their mitten by looking at the pattern of the wallpaper and then hanging them up on the clothesline. 

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