One More Sheep by Mij Kelly and Russell Ayto

Summary

ON A WILD, WINDY NIGHT in a thunderstorm, Sam brings his ten sheep home and tucks them in bed for the night, with woolly socks on their feet and woolly hats on their heads. The shepherd wants to make sure he's rounded up all of them. But counting sheep always makes him fall asleep!

A knock on the door in the middle of the night wakes up Sam and his flock. How will Sam know that the knock on the door isn't a lost lamb, but a wolf when he can't count up to ten without falling asleep? Now it's up to the fast-thinking sheep to help him…before it's too late!

Activities

1. What you would have done if you were the shepherd? What would have happened if the farmer let the lost sheep into the house? Use these questions and ones like them to prompt students to rewrite the story’s ending.

2. Make an accordion book to practice counting the sheep in the story. You will need ten pages plus a cover for your book. Have students glue a cotton ball on each page for the sheep’s body and then let them add arms and legs. Have each student write the number and number word under the sheep. Finally, have them practice counting the sheep without falling asleep!

Websites

1. http://www.countingsheepvt.com/kids.htm - this is a fun site with all kids of things about sheep including a downloadable activity book.

2. http://first-school.ws/t/craft/handprint_sheep.html - a site that has a cute sheep that looks a lot like the sheep in the book:  

3. http://www.first-school.ws/ACTIVITIES/CRAFTS/ANIMALS/FARM/HANDPRINT-LAMB.HTM - this site has activities you can do with the template.

4. http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=10129

Make a very cute “Sheep Egg” (***** rating!).

5. http://www.alphabet-soup.net/goose/popcornsheep.html - another cute sheep pattern/template.