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Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse

            A little girl asks her Mama if she loves her.  Her Mother’s response is  always a yes.  This book has bold pictures that show the life of the Inuit’s in the northern regions of the artic.  And it conveys the message of unconditional love between a mother and her child.

Materials

  • Several trays of ice cubes
  • Globe
  • Books and/or pictures of Arctic life
  • Any winter clothing that you can add to dramatic play

Vocabulary

  • Spout (the water that comes from the whales head like a fountain)
  • Umiak (a kind of boat that the Inuit use)
  • Mukluks (a big pair of boots made to wear over shoes or with extra socks)

Before Reading the Story

            Ask the children if their parent has ever gotten mad at them?  Ask if they have ever gotten mad at their parent?  Ask them to show you what mad looks like.  Tell them that sometimes everyone gets mad.  What should you do if you are mad?  Ask the children if they know what it means to forgive.  What are some things that people do to forgive each other? (say sorry, hug, smile at each other, shrug shoulders and go play).

Language Development/Speaking & Communicating; develops increasing abilities to understand and use language to communicate information, experiences, ideas, feelings, opinions, needs, questions; and for other varied purposes.

            Tell the children that the story today takes place in the artic.  Show them on the globe.  Tell them that the arctic is always very cold.

Social & Emotional Development/Knowledge of Families & Communities; begins to express and understand concepts and language of geography in the contexts of the classroom, home, and community.

Reading the Story

            As you read, stop on each page that names an emotion and ask the children to show you what that emotion looks like.

Language Development/Speaking & Communicating; develops increasing abilities to understand and use language to communicate information, experiences, ideas, feelings, opinions, needs, questions; and for other varied purposes.

After Reading the Story

            Do the people in the story dress like you do where you live?  Could you tell what the weather was like when we read the story?    What was the little girl’s biggest worry? (Mama do you love me?) 

Literacy/Book Knowledge & Appreciation; shows growing interest and involvement in listening to and discussing a variety of fiction and non-fiction and poetry.

Discovery

            Bring in any books or pictures of life in the arctic circle (the animals, the dress of the people, modern life style, transportation, etc).

Literacy/Book Knowledge & Appreciation; shows growing interest and involvement in listening to and discussing a variety of fiction and non-fiction and poetry.

Music and Movement

            Go on a pretend bear hunt with the children. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP2GwOLr2nI

            Sing If You’re Happy and You Know It, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk0mASRGEI8 then sing about if you’re sorry, if you’re angry, very angry, worried, surprised.

Creative Arts/Dramatic Play; shows growing creativity and imagination in using materials and in assuming different roles in dramatic play situations.

Blocks

            Tell the children that an umiak is a kind of boat.  Can the children build a boat out of blocks?  If you do not have the right kind of blocks to build a boat for the children, encourage them to try to make one for a doll or stuffed animals.  Make sure you add sides so the water does not splash inside.

Social & Emotional Development/Cooperation; develops increasing abilities to give and take in interactions, to take turns in games and in using materials; and to interact without being overly submissive or directive. AND Approaches to Learning/Engagement & Persistence; demonstrates increasing ability to set goals and develop and follow through on plans.

Art

            Show the children the masks on the front and back inside covers.  Put out paper plates with a variety if collage materials to make masks.  Cut two eye holes out before they begin.

Creative Arts/Art; progresses in abilities ti create drawings, paintings, models. and other art creations that are more detailed, creative, or realistic.

Sand and Water

            Put water in the table and add several trays of ice.  It is cold in the arctic where the story took place.  Add any arctic animals you might have.

Approaches to Learning/Initiative & Curiosity; chooses to participate in an increasing variety of tasks and activities.

Library and Writing

            Tell the children that you heard the letter M many times in the story.  It was in the words, Mama, musk-ox, mukluks, and moose.  Ask the children to make the /M/ letter sound.  Can they think of any more /M/ words?  Can they find anything in the room that begins with the letter M?  Dump the magnet letters out onto the table and see if the children can find the M’s.

Literacy/Alphabet Knowledge; shows progress in associating the names of letters with their shapes and sounds.

Dramatic Play

            Bring winter clothes for drama.  Include some boots/mukluks, jacket, mittens, hats, and scarves.

Creative Arts/Dramatic PLay; participates in a variety of dramatic play activities that become more extended and complex.

Math and Manipulatives

            Show the children The mother and the daughter’s dresses were full of beautiful patterns.  Show the children how to use one of your manipulatives to make patterns (chain links, parquetry shapes, 1”cubes).

Mathematics/Patterns & Measurement; enhances abilities to recognize, duplicate, and extend simple patterns using a variety of materials.

Outdoor Play

            If you read this book in the winter, go out and play in the snow! 

Science/Scientific Knowledge; develops a growing awareness of ideas and language related to attributes of time and temperature.

            Play Ferocious Bear!  Have the children practice growling.  Play Ferocious Bear like tag.  The children can growl as they run around the playground. 

Physical Health & Development/Health Status & Practices; participates actively in games, outdoor play, and other forms of exercise that enhance physical fitness.

Transitions

            Ask the children, how much do you love your Mama?  (more than the sun, as much as cookies, forever) . Write their answers on a piece of paper and hang it on the wall.

Literacy/Early Writing; begins to represent stories and experiences through pictures, dictation, and in play.

Resources

Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? by Nancy White Carlstrom

Materials

  •         Pictures of a variety of clothes to make a jumping bean game
  •          One paper plate per child.

Vocabulary

Before Reading the Story

            Talk to the children about the clothing that they are wearing.   Does the time of year affect the clothing that the children are wearing?  Is anyone wearing their favorite article of clothing or their favorite color?  Did the children wear outer clothing to school today, why?  Ask the children if they ever get to pick out their clothes to wear to school? Look at the cover of the book and read the title.  Ask the children if they can guess which shirt Jesse Bear will pick to wear.

Language Development/Speaking & Communicating; develops increasing abilities to understand and use language to communicate information, experiences, ideas, feelings, opinions, needs, questions; and for other varied purposes. AND Social & Emotional Development/Self Concept; begins to develop and express awareness self in terms of specific abilities, characteristics, and preferences.

Reading the Story

            As you read through the pages, stop and let the children talk about what is happening on each page and what name articles of clothing that they see.

Literacy/Book Knowledge & Appreciation; shows growing interest and involvement in listening to and discussing a variety of fiction, non-fiction books, and poetry.

After Reading the Story

            After reading the story, talk to the children about some of the different items of clothes that are worn for night and day.  Then teach the children to play Jumping Bean.  To play, cut out the clothing items and glue them to strips of cardboard.  Put all the strips of cardboard into an envelope cut in half so the clothing pictures are inside the envelope.  Also include several jumping beans.  The children take turns pulling out a cardboard strip and naming the item of clothing.  If they pull out a bean they shout Jumping Bean! And everyone then jumps up and down.  The play continues until all the cardboard strips have been picked.

Approaches to Learning/Initiative & Curiosity; chooses to participate in an increasing variety of tasks and activities.

Discovery

            Put out bubble blowing supplies either commercial or home made.  Experiment with different kinds of blowers.  Do different shaped blowers make different shaped bubbles? What happens when you touch a bubble with a dry hand versus a wet hand? How hard must you blow to make one big bubble? Many small bubbles?

Science/Scientific Skills & Methods; begins to use senses and a variety of tools and simple measuring devices to gather information, investigate materials, and observe processes and relationships.

Music and Movement

            Jessie Bear wears pants that dance.  Put on some music and let the children dance.  Pretend that your pants make you dance until the music stoops and then you freeze.

Creative Arts/Movement; expresses through movement and dancing what is felt and heard in various musical tempos and styles.

            Sing Rhyming Words Sound the Same to first 4 stanzas of The Mexican Hat Dance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Rqdgna3Yw

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(chanted) Can you think of a word that rhymes with red, pants, rose, chair, etc?

Literacy/Phonological Awareness; progresses in recognizing matching sounds and rhymes in familiar words, games, songs, stories, and poems.

Do the poem Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear but change it to Jesse Bear, Jesse Bear.

Jesse Bear, Jesse Bear turn around

Jesse Bear, Jesse Bear touch the ground.

Jesse Bear, Jesse Bear touch your shoe

Jesse Bear, Jesse bear show me blue.

Jesse Bear, Jesse Bear stretch up high

Jesse Bear, Jesse Bear touch the sky.

Language Development/Listening & Understanding; shows progress in understanding and following simple and multiple-step directions.

Blocks

            If you have colored blocks put them out today and encourage the children to talk about the colors as they build.

Language Development/Speaking & Communicating; develops increasing abilities to understand and use language to communicate information, experiences, ideas, feelings, opinions, needs, questions; and vfor other varied purposes.

Art

            In the story Jessie Bear eats a variety of foods for lunch.  Let the children cut out food pictures and glue them to a paper plate.

Physical Health & Development/Fine Motor Skills; grows in hand-eye coordination in building with blocks, putting together puzzles, reproducing shapes and patterns, stringing beads, and using scissors.

Library and Writing

            Use flannel board dressing dolls or find a set on the internet (look up paper dolls) and make for the children to use. https://www.designeatrepeat.com/printable-paper-dolls/ After the child has dressed the doll, talk about the names of the clothing items, the colors, what one usually does wearing that type of clothing.

Language Development/Speaking & Communicating; develops increasing abilities to understand and use language to communicate information, experiences, ideas, feelings, opinions, needs, questions; and for other varied purposes.

Sand and Water

            Add water and dish soap. Give the children egg beaters and/or hand whippers to make the bubbles form.

Science/Scientific Skills & Methods; begins to use senses and a variety of tools and simple measuring devices to gather information, investigate materials, and observe processes and relationships.

Dramatic Play

            Encourage the children to play using night rituals and morning rituals as their theme.

Creative Arts/Dramatic Play; shows growing creativity and imagination in using materials and in assuming different roles in dramatic play situations.

Math and Manipulatives

            Play a graphing game with your children.  Make a large X on the floor using masking tape.  Explain to the children that you are going to become a human graph.  Ask all the children who are wearing Velcro shoes to stand in one area, all those wearing tie shoes to stand in another, and those with buckles.  Which has the most?  Now have the children move and divide by long sleeves, short sleeves, sleeveless or shirts with letters, shirts with pictures, and shirts that are solid.  Continue in this manner naming different ways to graph clothing articles and seeing which has most and least.

Mathematics/Number & Operations; begins to make use of one-to-one correspondence in counting objects and matching groups of objects. AND begins to use language to compare numbers of objects with terms such as more, less, greater than, fewer, equal to.

Outdoor Play

            Digging in the sand today with a shovel and hand. Can the children work together to make a giant moutain?

Physical Health & Development/Health Status & practices; participates actively in games, outdoor play, and other forms of exercise that enhance physical fitness. AND Social & Emotional Development/Cooperation; shows increasing abilities to use compromise and discussion in working, playing, and resolving conflict with peers.

Transitions

            Ask the children to name an item of clothing that they would wear on their foot, their head, when it is cold, when it is hot, at bedtime, in the day time, on special occasions, etc.

Approaches to Learning/Reasoning & Problem Solving; develops increasing ability to find more than one solution to a question, task, or problem.

cut and use for jumping beans game