How would you make a hungry moose feel at home? Find out what happens If You Give a Moose a Muffin.

• 1.

  Find out all you can about moose. How big are they? Where do they live? What do they really eat? What’s the plural of moose? Mice? Meese? Mooses?

• 2.

  Read If You Give a Moose a Muffin or another hilarious moose story. How are fiction and nonfiction books similar? How are they different?

• 3.

  Using Crayola® Oil Pastels, draw your favorite moose scene from the book (or your imagination) on construction paper. You might show a checked floor, patterned wall paper, a table, and window with curtains.

• 4.

  On more construction paper use Crayola Erasable Colored Pencils to draw a large moose. Color it with a light color oil pastel first. Blend the moose’s coat gently with your finger. Place a dark color pastel such as black on top. Scrape away some of the black coating with plastic dinnerware. Cut out your moose with Crayola Scissors.

• 5.

  Does your favorite scene include muffins? Draw several of them in various sizes. Fill them with the oil pastel colors. Blend colors with your finger so the muffins look really scrumptious. Cut out the muffins.

• 6.

  With a Crayola Glue Stick, attach the moose and the muffins to your background scene.

Standards

• LA: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
• LA: With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
• LA: Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
• LA: Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
• LA: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic
• LA: Participate in shared research and writing projects.
• SCI: Use observations and information to identify patterns in how animals get their food.
• SCI: Observe and compare the many kinds of living things that are found in different areas.
• SS: Use appropriate resources, data sources, and geographic tools to generate, manipulate, and interpret information.
• VA: Use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.
• VA: Use visual structures of art to communicate ideas.

Adaptations

• Working in small groups, with the guidance of an adult if needed, students investigate the typical habitat for a moose to live and thrive in. What does the habitat look like? What types of planet are there? What other animals can live in this environment?
• Students read other books by Laura Joffe Numeroff such as If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Compare and contrast that story to If You Give a Moose a Muffin. What similar writing elements did the author use in both books? What elements are different?