Join us for some back-to-school fun with our If You Take a Mouse to School activities! These delightful activities will bring joy and excitement to the back-to-school season with activities such as building a block house, coloring story elements, sequencing events, using vocabulary, and going on a scavenger hunt! Reading, learning, and going back to school are made enjoyable and memorable through these interactive activities.

Developing literacy is at the heart of this activity pack. Encourage reading comprehension with discussion questions, build writing skills with templates and prompts, and sort rhyming pairs to improve phonemic awareness. The process of identifying causes and effects in the story and creating a collaborative, repetitive story further develops critical thinking and narrative skills. If You Take a Mouse to School activities promote literacy in an engaging, hands-on way.

As a result of the included activities, students will be able to:

• Character Writing Craftivity: Build Mouse
• Color elements from the story.
• Sequence the story with words or pictures.
• Write sentences with story vocabulary.
• Sort rhyming pairs.
• Identify causes and effects in the story.
• Complete a classroom scavenger hunt.
• Mouse House Craftivity: Build a block house for Mouse!
• Apply Writing Skills with included writing templates and prompts. 
• Practice Reading Comprehension with included discussion questions for the beginning, middle, and end of the book.
• Engage in Social Skills with included whole group prompts and activities.
• Develop Fine Motor Skills with included coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing activities.
• Create a collaborative story that is repetitive and cumulative. 
• Use a range of hands-on tools to build structures. 

This back-to-school support is perfect whether you’re preparing your young learner for a new school year or sharing the fun of learning in the classroom.

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💙 After grabbing the If You Take a Mouse to School activities, read along with the soundscape in your Novel Effect app for an extra sprinkle of fun!

About the Book

It's the first day of school for the star of If You Take a Mouse to the Movies and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Take a mouse to school, and he will ask for your lunchbox. When you give him your lunch box, he'll want a sandwich in it. Then, he'll need a notebook and pencils. And, he'll probably want to share your backpack, too. But what will he do the next day?  

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