Saturday, January 28, 2012

Pete the Cat Literacy Event

Friday was Family Literacy Day 
but all week our school district and local community 
have been offering literacy events.
Our school offered an afternoon event for families
to join in the StrongStart and Kindergarten classes
to have fun with Pete the Cat.  
This book is very popular in our school.  
If you've read previous posts then you know we have been 
having adventures with Pete.
But this event brought in a real live Pete to act out his 
"I Love My White Shoes" story.
Thanks to Beyond the Book Storytimes for the idea.
Here's little Pete and big Pete.
One of the teachers read the story while big Pete acted it out.
 Ready to start the story.
 Boxes represented the coloured piles,
example; red strawberries, blue blueberries, brown mud
 and in the boxes were slippers to match the colour.
 Started with white slippers, then red, then blue, brown
and back to white shoes.
Big Pete didn't cry once.
Because no matter what you step in, it's all good.

If you want to watch the video visit

Untitled from Maureen Wagner on Vimeo.


Here are the activities we did after the story.
Some of them were found at MakingLearningFun.
 Build a word. A coloured card has the word written on it.
Coloured snap blocks have letters written on each.
The children sort and build the word to match the card.
 Roll and colour page.
Roll the die, count the dots or recognize the numeral then colour that spot on the page.
An emergent reader for Pete the Cat that can be coloured according 
to what is happening on each page.
Listening centre.
 Making patterns using potato stamps.
Explaining which pattern he chose - ababab.

We think Pete is great!

5 comments:

  1. I am a new follower! I love your activities. The acting out of Pete the Cat looks like so much fun. I know the kids in my class LOVED that book :) Thanks for linking up to Thinky Linky Thursday!
    Lori @ Cachey Mama’s Classroom

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  2. It's amazing how popular that book is with all ages. Very catchy song but most of all, what a wonderful message.

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  3. I love the activities! I haven't made potato stamps with my kids in ages. Thanks for the reminder!

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  4. Thanks Maureen! I just love the way you engage with younger groups of children. Your Pete the Cat and Little Red House were fantastic. Thanks for providing the videos to capture the whole essence. I am a Literacy Specialist in Ontario within a similar program (drop in for birth to 6). Geat ideas -keep up the good work.

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    1. Thanks Janet. Where about in Ontario are you from. I grew up there and lived throughout the province

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