Thanksgiving Mice!
By Bethany Roberts
Illustrated by Doug Cushman
This is an adorable book that would be great to use with the younger kids. It help teach them about events of Thanksgiving, and do it in a fun way with mice as the characters.
The mice decide to put on a play for their friends about Thanksgiving. They make the costumes, the sets, and practice all their lines.They call in all their friends, and tell them to take a seat for their play. They show the Pilgrims coming from England on the Mayflower and landing on Plymouth Rock.They talk about the cold, harsh winter. In Act 2, they show them meeting "friendly folks" who give them corn to sow. Once they harvest the food, they feast and dance. At the end of the play, the mice take a bow and all their friends clap and cheer.
The use of repetition and rhyming in this book would also help the young kids learn how to read. The words used in this story are not too big making it and useful tool to teach the kids about Thanksgiving and how to read.
I did a Thanksgiving themed book too! This looks really cute. I've always liked the idea of a book about a play and it gives the option of a classroom activity to act out the play in the book with your students! Maybe even to preform in front of their parents! Good Job!
ReplyDeleteI loved your book talk this week! This was such a cute book. I love the way it teaches history in a way that would interests the students and with such fun characters. I think this would be a great way to have the students put on their own Thanksgiving play
ReplyDeleteThis book seems really cute! And I would definitely use it with the younger kids during Thanksgiving. What I would do with this book is have the kids in the class perform their own play just like the mice in the book. The kids would have lots of fun and the teacher would really enjoy watching them perform.
ReplyDeleteI really liked this book! Although it is not the most historically accurate Thanksgiving book, it gives younger kids an introduction which is really all they need. I think that this would be a great book for younger ones for all the reasons you said, and it could even introduce them to actually acting a play of their own.
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