By Mary Ellen Feustel, Laura Nagel,
and Jill Taylor
This is the jacket I wear in the snow.
Oh, no! Oh, no!
This is the zipper that is stuck on the
jacket I wear in the snow.
Oh, no! Oh, no
This is the scarf that is stuck in the zipper that
goes under the jacket I wear in the snow.
Oh, no! Oh, no!
These are the mittens that go with the scarf I
wear in the snow.
Oh, no! Oh, no!
These are the socks that are wrinkled and
bunched in the boots I wear in the snow.
Oh, no! Oh, no!
This is the sled I rode in the snow. It
crashed and I fell.
Oh, no! Oh, no!
These are the tears that fell from my eyes that
dripped on the scarf when I fell in the snow.
Oh, no! Oh, no
This is my mother who wiped my tears
that fell from my eyes.
Oh, yes! Oh, yes!
The End
What do you wear in the
snow?
What is one thing you can
do in the snow?
Where did the scarf get
caught?
In what season does the boy
wear a jacket?
Who wipes the boy’s tears?
Questions
1.
What do you wear in the snow?
2.
What is one thing you can do in the snow?
3.
Where did the scarf get caught?
4.
In what season does the boy wear the
jacket?
5.
Who wipes the boy’s tears?
Activities
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5.
Students put on actual clothing items as the story is told.
Students create an illustration of what I wear in the snow.
Students retell the story with a stick puppet and felt clothing.
Students dress the puppet with the felt clothing as the story is
told. The puppet and clothing can be created from models at
www.makinglearningfun.com
Create vocabulary cards for retelling the story. The picture/word
vocabulary cards can be printed from
www.makinglearningfun.com Students sequence the story with
the picture/word vocabulary cards.
Print out key words on one inch blocks from the website
www.makinglearningfun.com Have students place the tiles over
the letters to spell the words from the story. Key words: jacket,
zipper, scarf, mittens, tears, mother.
Activities
6. Match colored clothing items from the story to shadow
pages inside a file folder. Print out the shadow pages and
paste on the inside of a file folder. Have students cut out
the colored clothes and place the clothing items on the
matching shadow. Download the shadow pages and
clothing items from www.makinglearningfun.com
7. Match real picture to symbol of the same item
www.varnertypepad.com/seward/2008/01/the-jacket iwe.html
8. Play winter lotto. Lotto boards can be downloaded at
http://www.speakingofspeech.com click on Materials
Exchange; then click on Thematic Units; then click Winter
Themes.
Activities
9. Make a bookmark for The Jacket I Wear In The Snow.
www.makinglearningfun.com
10. Sing “Did you ever wear a jacket?” with Miss
Tracy (to the tune of “Did you ever see a
lassie) www.youtube.com
Resources
- www.makinglearningfun.com
- www.varnertype.com/seward/2008/01/the-jacketi-we.html
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E88Mp1OfWXE
- www.lessonplanet.com
- www.kidsexploration.com
- www.speakingofspeech.com
- www.interionalinstruction.com
- http://www.readinga-z.com/
Resources
- Neitzel, S. (1994). The Jacket I Wear In The
Snow, Greenwillow Books.