If you Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff is a great book geared towards preschool age children, even though I think any age person could enjoy this book. The mouse in this book is also the great mouse from the book If you Give a Mouse a Cookie and If you Take a Mouse to the Movies. This book basically explains that if you give this mouse in the book something like a lunch box, then it will ask for a sandwich, pencil, etc. The mouse in this story reminds me of the children I work with in my preschool/daycare. For example when we set out blocks for the children to play with, they are so excited to play with them, but then they will see other kids playing with dolls. The kids playing with the blocks will get distracted by the dolls and then ask for us to get dolls for them as well. Then one of our teachers in the class will be setting up an art project for the students to do and the kids will all get distracted by that, and will want to come play with the crafts. The young children are just like the mouse in the story. They are excited about little things, and have very short attention spans. Though it gets tiring to keep the kids interested in what they are doing, I believe it is a good thing that the kids want to keep playing with new toys. They are young and should be exploring their environment just like the mouse.
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