Our Family Math and Literacy Night in the spring of 2000 was a huge success! Families of students in both the AM Kindergarten and Extended Day class were invited to attend this special evening. All of our activities for the evening were centered around the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff. Kindergarten students and their families participated in math games, literacy activities, crafts, and a create a snack project.

See what activities and skills students participated in with their families!

Schedule Mouse ABC Tic-Tac-Toe Cookie Estimation Cookie Jar Math Cookie Patterning Cookies on My Plate Favorite Cookies Create a Snack Mouse Puppet ABC Mice Write a Story Family Photo Who Took the Cookies? Mouse Listening Maze Cookie Count

Each family in attendance received a folder containing directions for each activity set up during the evening of the Family Night, ideas for extensions at home, coordinating math/literacy skills and concepts taught within each activity,  a take home game, and a feedback form.  Each kindergarten student who brought their family also received their very own copy of the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to read again and again!

Printables for 'If You Give A Mouse a Cookie' Family Night
(Designed by Hubbard's Cupboard)

Sample First Invitation
Sample 2nd Invitation with RSVP
Parent Pack
Sign In Sheet
Mouse Writing Sheet
Cookies on My Plate Sheet
Create Your Own Cookie Patterning
Estimation Jar Slips
Feedback Form

Lesson Plan for Pre-K
Lesson Plan for Grades 1-3
Related Activities
A Sub Unit
Lesson Ideas from Teaching is A Work of the Heart
Lesson Ideas from The Virtual Vine (also has ideas for other books in this series!)
Math Story Problems
Printable Pictures from the Story