March Mouse Madness at Moye

PPCD and the employee daycare babies.

The little ones in PK, PPCD and kinder enjoyed listening to the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and participating in activities to help them recall the sequential, story-building details of what happens when mouse enjoys a chocolate chip cookie and a big glass of milk.  After listening to the book, the prekinder babies retold the story aloud together as I turned the pages of the library's over-sized copy of this Numeroff "classic".  Then they moved to the tables to make mice puppets and enjoy mice-sized chocolate chip cookies.  

KC prepares to act out If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

The H.R. Moye kinders were such fun as they used props to act out the story after hearing it read aloud.  Each child had some item from the story - a glass, a gallon milk container, a straw, a napkin, even a broom and mop.  We used my daughters' old plastic kitchen and our plush mouse doll to help us set the stage.  As I retold the story, the children with the appropriate item or prop came forward to act out the action on that particular page of the book.  I am not sure who had more fun, the librarian or the children!

Mouse colors a picture of his family.

Mouse needs a haircut.

Mouse sweeps up after his hair cut.

Then he mops the whole house!