More Monsters!

Theme:  More "M"

Choosing Time:  Magnets, Mitten Game, "M" Memory, Monkeys...


Snacks:

• Mother's Frosted Animal Cookies & Cheese Sticks
• Chocolate Heart Cakes
• Marshmallows & Frozen Go-Gurts
• Mangoes  
• Mini Muffins & Orange Slices
• Fruit Snacks, Cheese Sticks, & Ritz Crackers

Science:  Mira-scope Fun

Art:

• We finished our Messy Monsters!
• Heart Doily Dauber Painting--two masterpieces in one!  The Doilies are hanging in the classroom
• Marble Painting Hearts
• Musical Monster Maracas

Music & Movement:  We took turns pulling out "Letters" out of the "Mailman's Carrier" and then did the activity it suggested...

• Mother, May I?
• Monsters Jumping Up & Down
• Itsy Bitsy Monkey
• Once There Was a Snowman
• Oh, How I Love to Stand
• Skidamarinky Dinky Dink
• Monkeys Swinging In a Tree
• Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
• Popcorn Popping
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
• The Three Little Kittens
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Books:
 

Games:

1. Mother, May I?
2. Who Has My Heart? 
3. M & M Monster Bingo

Cute Phrase Exchanges:

•  "I'm so hungry I could eat this table." -- "Oh, no, that would be too hard on the digestion."

Mittens & Monsters?

Theme:  Letter M
To make an "M" you start at the "ground" and go "mountain up, mountain down, mountain up, mountain down."  It is fun to turn "M" upside down to make a "W".

Choosing time:  Marbles, Upper/Lower Case Matching Puzzles, Mitten Game, Letter "M" Memory, Magnets, Monster Elevator, Monster Fishing, Monster Eyeballs, Monkeys in Barrels

Snack:

• Pretzels & Scrabble Cheez-its
• Fruit Snacks
• Fruit Snacks, Ritz Crackers, Granola Bars
• M & M's & Popcorn
• Pirate Booty & Fruit Snack
• String Cheese & Graham Crackers
• Mini Muffins, Mandarin Oranges, & Marshmallows

Memorable Moments:

• "I get it, Miracle, M, M, M"
• I said, "This is a Marvelous snack."  A Cutie responded, "I know a Marvelous drink...Shirley Temples."

 Books:


We engaged in a lovely discussion about  what colors & designs we would want on our mittens.  Would we want them to be white and be hard to find in the snow?  Or, would we like them to be unique so that anyone seeing them would know who they belonged to. Then I asked them what they would put into a giant mitten and here are some of their responses:

• "Candy"
• "Myself"
• "A Kitty"
• "A Squirrel"
• "A Bear"
• Legos

 
 


Math:  We played a Graphing Game with a spinner and a graph with the animals from The Mitten.

Reading:  New word wall words include:  Me & My

Music & Movement:

• The Three Little Kittens (We love this one and that it includes "K, L, & M"
• Oh, What A Miracle
• Dancing Monsters
• Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
• Three Blind Mice

Art:

• Painted Mittens
• Messy Monsters 
• Create Your Own Monster

Games:

1.  Musical Mitten Alphabet
2. Alphabet Search & Find
3. Monster Bingo with M & M's