Labeling the classroom with the help of your class will help in building vocabulary. Label everything that you can and let the class add suggestions. Desks, chairs, art area, chalkboard , sink, label as you repeat each word. Ask how Morris learned to read. Ask "How does reading help Morris?" Explain how learning to read help the class.
Have the class make its own book about the students' first day of school. Was the sun shining or was it raining? Did the students ride the bus, walk or get a ride to school? Did they go outside to play at recess? What did they like best about school? What did they not like about school? From "Morris the Moose Goes to School" discuss with the class Morris' first day of school. Referring to "Morris the Moose," ask the class to include people they have met at school in their books.
Using words from the book "Morris the Moose Goes to School," and "Morris the Moose" have the children practice writing. A word list can be compiled from the books such as: cow, deer, moose, friends, candy, teacher, school. Ask the class to help with the list. Write the list on the blackboard and have students copy them onto a sheet of paper. A spelling list from the words will reinforce fluency.
Make a moose head construction paper cut-out for the bulletin board. Cut out gumdrops from the construction paper. Under the moose, write out simple math problems using the gumdrops, and talk about Morris' problems counting the candies in the book. Three gumdrops plus three gumdrops equal six gumdrops. Have the students help solve the math equations. Refer to the book "Morris the Moose Goes to School" and ask the class if Morris had two gumdrops and he bought two more, how many gumdrops would he have?
Using coins or cut-outs of coins ask the class how many gumdrops can you get if you have five pennies and gumdrops are a penny apiece. Repeat with differing denominations. This concept can be great for a handout with the math problems written as gumdrops, money or moose or even as a combination. Just be sure you have gumdrops to gumdrops and moose to moose so as not to confuse your students. Read aloud page 60 and 61 of "Morris the Moose Goes to School."
Money spending and saving can be discussed after reading the book. Ask what would be something that you could save for? A bicycle? A new toy? Do you think spending money on candy was wise? What about a party or presents for Morris' friends from "Morris the Moose"? Ask what kind of presents a deer or cow would like.
Where do moose live? What do moose eat? A collage of photos can be made by answering these questions. Collect some wildlife magazines, glue and poster board and you have a lesson plan for science. In "Morris the Moose" he meets a deer and a cow. Make a collage of where they might live and what they might eat.