Mrs. Jones - The Mitten

Find out about the animals in the book.

Order of the animals in Jan Brett's version of the book: A mole is the first to discover the mitten lying on the snow and crawls inside, followed by a snowshoe rabbit, a hedgehog, an owl, a badger, a fox, a bear and finally a mouse.

Snowshoe Rabbit
http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/hww-fap/snowshoe/snowshoe.html

Red Fox
http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/hww-fap/redfox/redfox.html

Brown Bear 1
http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/hww-fap/grizzly/grizzly.html

Great Horned Owl
http://owlpages.com/species/bubo/virginianus/

Badger
http://www.badgers.org.uk/brockwatch/2melina1.html

Hedgehog 1
http://hem.passagen.se/hedgehogs/index.html

Hedgehog 2
http://neuro-www2.mgh.harvard.edu/hedgehog/hedgehogmain.html

Follow the links to find out true facts about hegdehogs.
http://janbrett.com/piggybacks/history1.htm

Mouse
http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/epb/factsheets/bkyard_bug/mice_rats.html

The Mitten News Notes
Jan Brett answers questions about writing her books.

How do you get an idea?
http://janbrett.com/newsnotes/mitten_newsnotes2.htm

Is it easy to get started on a book?
http://janbrett.com/newsnotes/mitten_newsnotes3.htm

Why borders? How do you make up characters?
http://janbrett.com/newsnotes/mitten_newsnotes4.htm

An artist needs to know...
http://janbrett.com/newsnotes/mitten_newsnotes5.htm

About Drawing
http://janbrett.com/newsnotes/mitten_newsnotes6.htm

"All About" Questions
http://janbrett.com/newsnotes/mitten_newsnotes7.htm

Songs and Poems

Put on Your Mittens

Put on your mittens,
It's cold I fear,
It's that winter time of year,
Play in your yard,
But when you're done,
Pull off your mittens,
One by one!

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Mitten Music (Where has my little dog gone) by Jean Rogers Oh where, oh where did my NEW mittens go? Oh where, oh where can they be? Oh, I have looked high and I have looked low. Oh where, oh where can they be? sing and replace "NEW" with old, soft, warm, red, blue, etc. *****

Mitten Fingerplay
by Lucia Kemp Henry

Here is a mitten,
(hold up one hand)
A snug, fuzzy one-
(rub palms together)
With a place for my fingers
(wiggle 4 fingers)
And a place for my thumb
(wiggle thumb)

Here are two mittens,
(hold up two hands)
A colorful sight.
(hands back and forth)
One for the left hand
(hold up left hand)
One for the right.
(hold up right hand)

Here are OUR mittens,
(hold up two hands)
As soft as can be
(stroke the back of one hand)
A warm pair for you
(point to the neighbor)
And a warm pair for me
(point to yourself)

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Puttin' On Mittens
Tune: Farmer In the Dell

The thumb in the thumb place,
Fingers all together!
This is the song we sing
When it is mitten weather!

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Mitten Mates
Tune: If You're Happy And You Know It
Have pairs of mittens ready. Set all the left mittens along the chalk ledge. Keep all the right mittens in your hand in a pile. When you sing, hand a mitten to one of the children. He/She should walk to the chalk ledge to find the mate.

Each mitten has a mate, has a mate.
Each mitten has a mate, has a mate.
Can (child's name) find the pair?
(He/She) is looking here and there.
Can (child's name) find the mate.
Find the mate?

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Colorful Mittens
Sung to "Six Little Ducks"
Sing Along to this song!
adapted by Mrs. Jones

Colorful mittens for me and you
Red ones, yellow ones, blue ones too.
But the one pair of mittens that rhymes with fellow,
They're my favorite mittens, they're the color yellow!

Replace with other rhyming pairs such as:
bed/red
bean/green
sink/pink
shoe/blue
crown/brown
tack/black

You're on your own for orange and purple!

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Dr. Jean's Mitten Song and Activities
http://www.drjean.org/html/monthly_act/act_2002/01_2002.html