More, and more, and more MONKEYS!

Over the past two days we have continued our "Monkey" theme.  What child doesn't LOVE to play monkey (bouncing, jumping, pretending to swing from vines, monkey walk and talk), eat monkey food (bananas, oranges, apples, LOTS of fruit!!), and play monkey games (chase, picking bugs ((pretending!!) from each other's hair and snuggle)???

Each child took home five little monkeys yesterday to go along with our song Five Little Monkey's Jumping on the Bed!

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This is another little Youtube clip we viewed today.  It shows a great example of monkeys using their tales to swing, climb and play.  The children wanted to see it AGAIN!

We also played this little game of "Spot the one that's different!"  We talked about the monkeys sitting, standing, pointing and scratching their heads and worked together to spot the ones that were the same and the ones that were different.  To make it a bit more challenging for fine motor skill development we used clothes pins to mark the one that was different.

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We LOVE to READ!

We take our reading very seriously around here and LOVE to read. This sweet pic was just after lunch and before nap as I was preparing our area for rest. A few of the children gathered their naptime books and began to read all snuggled up and cozy :)

Speaking of reading this little list shows our selected reading today, this isn't all our books though!  We also again practiced naming our emotions and what situations might we feel that way with the book, On Monday When It Rained.

We didn't stop our learning day there, though!  We also continued with our Hooked On Phonics lesson as we made Marvelous "M" with glue and glitter, naming the letter, sound and examples of words we found in our books that began with an "m" and words we could think of...like "mommy" (our favorite 'M' word!!).  Have a great day and make sure you PLAY!!!

-L

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