This week I brought out one of my favorite math books for littles Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh. In this fun book with simple cut paper illustrations 10 mice are captured by a hungry snake and put in a jar. I have a jar full of mice and usually a snake to bring this story to life as I read it. Kids love to see and play with the mice counting them forward and backward.
You could do this activity at home with a jar drawn on paper and paper mice, or get creative with a real jar and 3-D mice, maybe pine cones or cookies.
Ellen Stoll Walsh has a whole series of books of her papercut mice. Check them out at the Public Library or search for them online.
We visited the famouse mouse poem Hickory Dickory Dock.
I intended to read the book If You Give a Mouse a Brownie by Laura Numeroff, but completely forgot. I recommend any of Laura Numeroff's, If you give .. books kids love them and they can lead to great language play with your littles. It is always fun when kids bring language patterns from the books you share into everyday life. My son said to me the other day " If you give a kid some spinach he is going to want some ranch to go with it"
There was a little Mouse
Who sat upon a chair
When the cat said "Miaow"
He ran right up the stair.