If You Give A Mouse A Cookie

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If You Give A Mouse A Cookie

By Laura Numeroff, HarperCollins Publishers

 

Concepts and Themes To Teach

  • Household objects

 

 

Expanded Core Curriculum Activities

 

Compensatory Skills

  • Examine all the objects/tools in the story: glass, straw, mirror, scissors, broom, dust pan, mop, tape.  Demonstrate or discuss the function of each items

 

 

Social Interaction

  • Dramatic play: pretend to bake cookies.  Provide a cookie sheet, spatula, bowl, wooden spoon, apron, some empty spice canisters, maybe a couple of large plastic jars labeled "Sugar" & "Flour" for canisters, some plastic eggs in an egg carton, and an empty plastic oil and milk container.  Add a toy size rolling pin and some round cookie cutters.  You can also add some brown or homemade play dough (add in cocoa mix for color and aroma) so that they can make their cookies to bake. 

 

 

Independent Living Skills

  • Mouse size snack: talk about the size of a typical mouse.  Have the child decide what size snack a mouse would eat.  Serve mini chocolate cookies (can use either cookies or cookie cereal) and milk in very tiny cups, either from a tea set or paper bathroom cups.

 

  • Examine the tools needed to bake cookies: knife, cookie sheet, spatula, plate, and oven

 

  • Make slice and bake chocolate chip cookies

 

  • Make a Grocery List and a pencil for the students to write down things they're running out of or need to purchase at the grocery store.

 

 

Visual Efficiency Skills

  • Shadow match: print out a set of activity cards to use.  One card has a picture of an object from the story and the matching card has a shadow of that object.

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Self-determination

  • Discuss when to tell a friend “no”