Your child has been selected to take home the Literacy Bag this week! I hope you enjoy the tasks that I have prepared for you. I have provided your child with the book, Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin. I’m not sure if many of you are familiar with the song that goes along with the book, but it is easy to learn and you might even catch yourself humming it once in a while. I apologize for not having this CD included in here, but if you would like to listen to it sometime, please feel free to stop by my classroom and I would be happy to play it for you.

Here’s what I would like for you and your child to enjoy this week:

  1. Before reading the book, have your child go through each page and just examine the pictures on each page. Have your child name the colors, the things Pete steps in, etc.
  2. Once you have completed that, please have your child read this book to you.
  3. Take a few minutes to discuss the book and talk about Pete’s attitude. What did Pete step in? What happened to his shoes? What happens at the end of the story? Where do you think Pete was going? Did Pete become really sad when his shoes changed color? Why not? (Please talk with your child about the moral of the story stated at the end of the book).
  4. I have provided you with a few pieces of paper in a folder. Create your own story about what Pete steps in and the color that it would turn Pete’s shoes. (For example, Pete steps in banana’s and it will turn his shoes yellow. Feel free to use this example when explaining to your children what to do on these sheets).
  5. Have the children write out what Pete steps in at the top, allow them to draw a picture of Pete stepping in that large pile in the box provided, and then have them write out, 4 times, the color of Pete’s shoes.
  6. Once you have finished those sheets, Put them in any order that you and your child wish for the story and then take a piece of computer paper and draw a Title Page. Be Creative!
  7. I have provided a stapler in this backpack, along with some crayons to color with. Please put the pages in any order you wish and staple them together.
  8. Finally, there is a coloring sheet and a dot-to-dot activity that your child may keep and color on. When he or she has finished coloring the “It’s All Good” page, please have him stick it back in the folder and I will hang it up in the classroom. 

Have fun!!

~Miss Hirsch~