If You Give A Mouse A Cookie Free Download ##HOT##
Adeline Haverstock
The entire story is told in second person. A boy named Matthew gives a cookie to a mouse. The mouse asks for a glass of milk. He then requests a straw (to drink the milk), a napkin and then a mirror (to avoid a milk mustache), nail scissors (to trim his hair in the mirror), and a broom (to sweep up his hair trimmings). Next, he wants to take a nap, have a story read to him, draw a picture, and hang the drawing on the refrigerator. Looking at the refrigerator makes him thirsty, so the mouse asks for a glass of milk. The circle is complete when he wants a cookie to go with it.
The text was interpreted by illustrator Felicia Bond to show the increasing energy of the mouse, with the little boy being run ragged by the end of the story. The art was praised by School Library Journal for its "meticulous attention to detail",[1] and was executed with vibrant colors of blended pencil in a complex process of layering magenta, cyan, yellow, and black on separate sheets, which were then assembled during printing.
Bond describes rushing to get the sketches done before leaving town with her boyfriend, and that the energy of the mouse evolved from that excitement. She has mentioned on numerous occasions that the little boy in the book was her boyfriend, Stephen Roxburgh, as a child.
One terrific resource for helping children grasp cause and effect is found in the classic tale, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Joffe Numeroff where a little boy gives a hungry mouse a cookie. The story begins:
- The mouse: represents the short sighted, excitable change catalyst (or maybe that new leader who thinks he has a great idea that will prove his value and catapult his career to a next level, without listening or learning first.) AKA: the instigator of chaos. Zooming out, the mouse represents that ADHD element of our hive-minded organizations, constantly context switching and jumping from one flavor of the month to another, leaving mess & fatigue in its wake. The thinking fast vs thinking slow; the action addiction that entraps so many organizations.
Looking back on things, there have been so many times where people just wanted to take advantage of me. For instance, as I was going through high school I was fairly smart/nerdy and athletic (which is not a common mixture). If someone needed help with school work they would often come to me. I would help them and most of the time they would not even try to help themselves. I was giving them a cookie and they were just coming back for milk.
This one always takes me back to my childhood. I feel like I'm 7 years old again putting out cookies for Santa and being so excited for him to come that I can't sleep! The whole season brings us back to our childhoods and makes us all feel like little excited children who believe in magic again.
Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, Right down Santa Claus lane He'll come around when the chimes ring out That it's Christmas morn again Peace on earth will come to all If we just follow the light So lets give thanks to the lord above That Santa Claus comes tonight!
How:
(Note: You may keep this game if you wish so that you can play again and again at home! It is a game that can be played with 2 people or with 2 teams.)
1) Lay the picture cards face down in a pile.
2) Let one team be the cookie and the other team be the milk.
3) On your turn, turn the top picture card over, say the name of the picture, and then say what letter the picture begins with. If you are correct, you may place one of your team's playing pieces on the tic-tac-toe plate. If you are not correct, then you do not get to place a piece down for your team.
4) Play alternates between teams.
5) To win, a team must get three in a row and then say 'Tic-Tac-Toe!'
How:
(Note: There are three related activities at this station. They may be completed in any order.)
1) Look closely at the three jars with mini cookies. Without counting, which jar do you think has the most/least cookies inside? Move the numeral cards to reflect your prediction. Then lift the flap to show the number of cookies in each jar. Which jar really did have the most/least? What might have made this difficult to determine?
2) Look at the largest jar containing mini cookies. Each family may make 1 prediction as to how many cookies are in this jar. Write your families' prediction (number guess and first and last name) and then place it in the can. (You may win a prize if your families' estimate was the closest!)
3) Choose 1 paper cookie jar. Estimate how many paper cookies will be able to fill the cookie jar. Once you have told someone your estimate, start placing cookies on the jar until it is completely filled. Count to see how many cookies filled the cookie jar!
How:
(Note: There are two different activities at this station.)
1) Choose a cookie jar that has a numeral on the lid. Read the number out loud and then count that many cookies into the jar.
2) Choose a cookie jar without a numeral on the lid. Have an adult read a short story problem. As the story is being read, place that many cookies in the jar. Listen carefully. You may need to add more cookies into the jar or take some cookies out of the jar based on what happens in the story. At the end of the story, you will need to count and tell the adult how many cookies are left in your jar.
How:
(Note: There are three patterning activities at this station that progress in difficulty.)
1) Choose 1 pre-made cookie pattern strip. Place the exact same cookie cutouts on top of the pattern strip. Can you continue with the same pattern off the edge of the strip? Recheck your pattern by going back to the beginning and pointing to each cookie. Either say the color or letters for the pattern!
2) Use just the cookie cut outs to layout and form your own pattern. Tell an adult what your pattern is or see if they can guess your pattern.
3) Use crayons and the cookie outline sheet to color and create your own pattern. Make sure to tell someone your pattern and check it!
How:
1) Choose what number you want to work with (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10) and count out that many beans.
2) Shake and roll the beans.
3) Count the red beans. Draw that many cookies on 1 half of your plate and write the numeral to show how many you have.
4) Count the white beans. Draw that many cookies on the 2nd half of your plate and write the numeral to show how many you have.
5) Count how many you have all together. Draw that many cookies on the full plate and write the numeral to show how many you have in all.
How:
1) Each family may take one bag of cookies.
2) Determine how you can share the cookies in your bag evenly with all family members who are present.
3) Once your bag of cookies are divided evenly, eat your cookies.
4) Let each person in your family decide which cookie was his/her favorite.
5) Each person in your family needs to write their first and last name on a sticky note and place the sticky note on the graph to show which cookie was their favorite.
6) Look at the graph. Discuss which cookie was liked more than the others, less than the others, and which ones are liked the same amount. You may want to check back a little later to see if the graph has changed.
How:
(Note: You may take one set of story pictures home with you if you do not have time to complete this project here.)
1) Trace a mouse head pattern onto gray construction paper. Then cut it out.
2) Use the smaller pieces of construction paper to add ears, eyes, nose, and whiskers to the mouse head.
3) Cut out a pair of overalls and color as desired.
4) Glue the mouse head and overalls onto a brown lunch sack.
5) Color and cut out the story pictures.
6) Use the mouse puppet and the story pictures to retell If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to someone else!
How:
1) Choose one of the three sets of mice and cookies to work with first.
2) Put the cookie puzzles together by matching the upper and lower case letters. (A with a, B with b, etc.)
3) Look at the pictures on the mice. What letter does each picture start with? Match each mouse to the correct letter cookie.
4) Return all cookie pieces and mice to the correct bag when finished.
How:
1) Choose either a mouse or cookie shaped paper.
2) Read the sentence, "If you give a mouse a _____, he'll want a ____ to go with it!"
3) As a family, figure out what you could give a mouse and then what he would want to have to go with it.
4) Help your child to stretch out the sounds of the words with you and to try to write the beginning and ending letters they hear (like in our kid writing and writing notebooks) on the blank lines.
5) Make an illustration to go with your story.
How:
(Note: I will send home the photo of you and your family after Spring Break. We will also keep a copy in the classroom as part of a Family Night class book.)
1) Read the chart near the mouse and fill in your family members' names where the blanks are.
2) Gather your family around the 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie' mouse.
3) Ask the photographer to take your family photo.
4) Write the names of the family members who were in the photo with the mouse and leave this information with the photographer.
How:
1) Take one mouse maze sheet and a pencil.
2) Find 'start' on your maze. You will be drawing a line to different pictures as you listen to the story and follow the mouse.
3) Press 'play' on the tape recorder.
4) Please rewind the tape when finished listening.
How:
(Note: This game can be played with 2 or more people.)
1) On your turn, roll the die and then use a crayon to color in that many cookies on your cookie plate.
2) Play alternates between players.
3) The first person to fill their cookie plate wins!