These ‘If You Take a Mouse to School’ activities are perfect for your first week of school. We love using Laura Numeroff’s books and this one is always a favorite to use at the start of the year. In this blog post you’ll find a bunch of different activities as well as free downloads to use with your students in addition to reading this book.
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Sensory Story Script
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Download the free sensory story script for ‘If You Take a Mouse to School’ here.
Label the Parts of a Mouse
I also tie this book in nicely to our science unit. We focus on a mouse first, before moving onto woodland animals during the fall season. And starting with a mouse always flows really nicely into this topic. We use this worksheet to identify and label the different parts of the mouse.
If you like this worksheet, it’s available as part of this download here with 10 other animals also included! You can download the mouse worksheet for free here.
Name Spelling Cookies
This name craft is a fun way for your students to work on their name recognition and spelling skills. You can either make the mouse out of 2D shapes to go along with the name spelling cookies.. Or you can use the cut and stick clipart image. Check it out here.
What’s in Mouse’s Lunch Box? Adapted Book
This adapted book is a fun extension activity. We love to use adapted books and I always have them prepped for all sorts of different themes, skills and holidays. In this adapted book, students will find out what is inside Mr Mouse’s lunch box. Download it here.
Counting Lunch Box Task Cards
These free ten frames are a fun and engaging addition to this book. Students will love counting the sandwiches in the different lunch boxes with this task box. Count the sandwiches in the ten frame, then select your answer out of 3 options on the bottom of the task card.
Pack the Lunch Box – Following Instructions
I love to use task boxes. And you’ll often hear me talking about them and all the different ones that I have in my library. This one is always a lot of fun and it does help expand upon conversations around lunch boxes and healthy eating as well. I love when the resources I use open up other learning opportunities. And this packing the lunch box one is definitely one you need to add to your collection. You can download it here.
Symbols to Stick in the Book
If you love to have visual symbols to add into picture books to make them more accessible for your students.. Or even to expand upon language, conversations… Answering questions.. The list of reasons why you may add symbols into your picture books is endless! Then this free download is for you. These are all symbols that I have put into my copy of this picture book.
They’re really use to use. Simply print them out, laminate, cut and add velcro to the back. Then add velcro onto the page in the picture book as well. There’s also a blank base board included at the bottom of your download. I laminate this and add velcro to it. Then I have students pick the symbol from the base board to place onto the page of the book when I am reading it.
You can download the symbols for free here.
Lunch Box Directed Drawing Writing Prompt
I love to use directed drawing activities with my students. A lot of my students really struggle with being creative and even on their pencil control skills. I find that by providing them with directed drawing activities, it helps to build their confidence with drawing and their use of pencils, crayons, etc.
This directed drawing writing prompt works on a bunch of skills and is perfect to tie in as an extension to the book ‘If You Take a Mouse to School.’
Students start by following the directed drawing instructions to draw their own lunch box. Then, students will complete the writing prompt activity by discussing what they would put in their lunch box for a mouse. A fun activity that really will help your students feel more confident with being creative. You can download it for free here.
Build a House for a Mouse Magnetic Tiles Cards
We love to use magnetic tiles. They’re probably one of the most used items with my students. For years it was mega bloks, but I think it’s safe to say that these magnetic tiles are definitely taking over. If you don’t have any yet, here are the ones that I recommend;
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I often will use these to make up different challenges for my students. So I will build something, photograph it and then turn it into a card for my students to try and replicate the same building. You can either do this with step-by-step instructions and building one piece at a time. Or provide them with a finished photo so that they are able to just look at the photo and try to build the same by using the tiles in front of them.
This one is fun to use with this book and have students work on building houses for their mice friends.
Feed the Mouse 2D Sandwiches Boom Cards
I love using Boom Cards. I was always a bit wary to try them when I first heard of them just because I find it so overwhelming trying to learn new software and especially online tools. ICT skills were probably one of the skills that I found the hardest to work on with my students. Especially when so many of my students didn’t even have a computer at home.
However, Boom Cards really helped me make fun and engaging activities for my students. And I have seen a huge increase in my students’ ICT skills and abilities since using them. This Boom card is a fun way to not only have students work on their 2D recognition skills.. But it also ties in as a fun extension activity to go with this book.
Students will love feeding the mouse the sandwiches! Click here to download it on TpT. Or here to download it on the Boom website.
Never heard of Boom? Find out more in this blog post that I wrote all about it!
What activities do you like to do with this book? Hit comment below and let me know.
Nikki
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