5 Day Little Miss Muffet Plan

Day 1: 

• Read Little Miss Muffet book to class (use reproducible book-see resources section below, enlarge, copy on cardstock, color, laminate, and bind to make your own book)

• Re-tell the rhyme using Little Miss Muffet flannel board (see resources below)

• Sing  Little Miss Muffet song (select one from music resources below to sing all week) Show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song. 

Day 2: 

• Read  Little Miss Muffet book to class.

• Introduce Little Miss Muffet pocket chart from TCM Nursery Rhymes books (see reference below).  Have one student come to front and point while whole class says rhyme. 

• Sing  Little Miss Muffet song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song.

Day 3:

• Read  Little Miss Muffet book to class.

•  Little Miss Muffet pocket chart from TCM Nursery Rhymes books.  Have one student come to front and point while whole class says rhyme.

• Sing  Little Miss Muffet song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song.

Day 4:

• Read  Little Miss Muffet book to class

• Little Miss Muffet pocket chart from TCM Nursery Rhymes books (see reference below).  Have one student come to front and point while whole class says rhyme. 

• Sing Little Miss Muffet song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song.

Day 5:

• Read  Little Miss Muffet book to class

•  Little Miss Muffet pocket chart from TCM Nursery Rhymes books (see reference below).  Have one student come to front and point while whole class says rhyme. 

• Sing  Little Miss Muffet song, show the book and turn the pages as you sing the song.

• Act out rhyme with entire class.

Little Miss Muffet sequence

Materials: Little Miss Muffet sequencing picture (click here), construction paper, crayons, scissors, glue.

The Best of the Mailbox Nursery Rhymes book has good sequencing pictures to reproduce for this rhyme.

Using 3 or 4 scene sequence pictures is a great way to check for understanding.  Have your students color the scenes, cut apart, and glue in the correct order on a piece of construction paper. 

*TIP:  4 year olds may have difficulty sequencing 4 pictures until later in the school year, I try to stick with only 3 scene sequencing activities when working with 4 year olds. 

Act out the Rhyme

Materials:  stuffed spider, chair, bowl, spoon

Select one student to be "Little Miss Muffet" and another student to be the "spider".  Have Little Miss Muffet sit in a chair holding her bowl and spoon.  The child who is playing the role of the spider can hold the stuffed spider.  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. 

Paper Plate Spiders

Materials:  small paper plates, black paint, paint brushes, black construction paper, glue, wiggly eyes.

Paint paper plates black.  Cut black construction paper into 1x18 inch strips and fold accordian style for legs.  When the plate is dry, glue eight construction paper strip "legs" around the edge of the plate.  Glue wiggly eyes to the top. 

Tip:  Add a piece of string or yarn to the top and hang these from your classroom ceiling.

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