Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses - Great Ideas to Extend the Fun of this Popular Book

Warmer weather is here!  

Now is a great time to pull out the book, 

Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses 

by Kimberly and James Dean!

In this latest Pete the Cat book, 

Pete suffers from a case of 

"the blue cat blues." 

And the book shows us just how he deals with it!

Pete's such a cool kitty with so much to teach, I decided to feature him in my latest unit below.

In this unit I included 10 different images for re-telling

Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses to your class.

 Just print the pictures on cardstock and add magnets to the back! 

   This unit also contains: 

 Pete the Cat Feelings Cards  

(These come with 3 different game ideas!)

Colour and B&W Poster for your classroom

Student Mini-books

5 page Class Book with worksheet

Centre time game

Additional Magnet Board Story

Art Project with templates

Art/L.A. Worksheet

58 pages of fun for under $7!

If you're interested, please check it out in my 

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Pete the Cat is Having a Sleepover!

You may not be a cat lover.
But I think every teacher and kid loves one particular feline - PETE the Cat, a hip, happenin' kitty featured in stories by Eric Litwin.

Pete. with his groovy attitude toward life and all its little mishaps is definitely a fan favourite in our classroom.  

And then there's the music/songs to accompany Pete's adventures.
So catchy!
After reading a story, even I can't help but hum the lyrics for a few hours afterward - "My buttons, my buttons, my four groovy buttons... "

Surely I am not the only one guilty of this? :)

We decided to follow up our Pete the Cat Unit last month with sending our Pete stuffy home with the kids for overnight visits. 

We pop him into a bag with a letter to the parents (including an explanation of the activity), and a journal sheet for the child to fill out to document the visit.
The journal sheet and letter to parents are available as part of my Pete the Cat Unit.

Since the children in our class are not writing yet, we ask the parents to scribe the children's account of Pete's visit for the journal entry.  Then the children draw a related picture in the box.    

The kids love having Pete come home for a visit and they also enjoy having their Journal sheet shared with their classmates when they come back to school with him. 

We teachers love extending the fun of our Pete the Cat Unit and encouraging the children to develop their storytelling skills.

Plus, I must admit, their stories are darn cute!  Pete seems to be having some pretty fun visits!

 

We add all of the stories to a Pete Goes for a Visit class book (held together with binder rings) that we keep in our book centre. 

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