Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep by Teri Sloat *
If Elephants Wore Pants by Henriette Barkow
In My New Yellow Shirt by Eileen Spinelli
The Nuts: Sing and Dance in Your Polka Dot Pants by Eric Litwin *
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin *
Craft: Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons
The kids colored a card stock head, two arms and two legs cut from a template I drew. They then folded a quarter sheet of yellow paper so that the edges met in the middle to make a shirt. The upper corners could be turned down to make a collar. They then picked for small stickers to use as groovy buttons to close the shirt.
Literacy Extensions:
- After reading Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons practice counting. Have your child count various things on their clothes (i.e. stripes on their shirt, pockets on their pants, etc.)
- After reading My New Yellow Shirt have your child stretch their imagination by coming up with different things they could be in the outfit they are wearing.
Notes:
I originally thought to have the kids pick out the stickers they wanted to use. However, this did not work very well. We got a traffic jam at the sticker bowls. We also had a lot of younger children who were not yet counting.
Template for Pete the Cat --
