My little Monkeys!! In my little guy’s workbox I had these magnetic letters and he had to find the letter M’s. He is always asking me how to spell things. The funny thing is is that he has no idea what he is talking about, but because his older brother likes to spell, he just wants to join in on the fun! What fun letter practice for him! Here is spelled “Monster truck” which is definitely his favorite thing!!
My youngest turned three this month and he received money in the mail from Nana and Grandpa. Perfect timing Nana for the letter M!!!
We have our own “Letter Tree.” Idea had been taken from my favorite home school website http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/. Each week the kids get a chance to put the letters on the tree. My youngest is making a “sad” face because he has the wrong letter! Silly boy!
The next activity was our letter do-a-dot pages! My youngest LOVES these pages. He likes putting stickers on the circles and using the do-a-dot markes! He is also tracing the M and M pages with a dry erase marker. (I did laminate these as to use them again!) Both of these pages were found at http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/.
The next activity we did this week was to make a “Moose craft.” The boys traced their hands, cut them out and attached it to a Moose head. They glued googly eyes and coloured their masterpiece! I used a craft idea from a wonderful book about alphabet crafts called Arts and Crafts From A to Z.
The other day we were in a story and a lady passed my us and made small talk with the boys. She asked them what their names were and my youngest said to her, “My name is Monkey.” Se, what better craft that a monkey one!!! (My oldest is working on a jungle one!) I found these in the dollar bins at Michaels craft store. I tend to navigate down these aisles every time I am there and stock up on fun crafts!
We made M and M cookies this week! I think the whole family loved it! My inlaws and our student from Mexico loved it as well! The kids thought it was perfect that our friend/student was from Mexico (letter M!)
Marshmallows are always a hit at our house!! This idea was from http://www.confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/. I am pretty sure that half of the marshmallows ended up somewhere else (tummy!) Hmmm a mystery!! My oldest LOVES math….might as well do math with marshmallows in your mouth!!
Who says you cannot have a BLAST with M and M’s!? We decided to play with our food and build patters with them! It was their favorite workbox! They actually raced through all their other boxes to get to this one! Nothing like some sweet motivation!
My little guy LOVES searching for letters! Here he had to circle the letter M’s!
Measuring: let’s find out which box holds more: the blue or orange? We made these boxes (which were made from different shapes: one a square and one a rectangle). My son filled each box up and then counted to see which shape held more.
I know this one is hard to see, however we did make a trip to McDonalds. My kids know how much I despise McDonalds, so to go here was indeed a treat. You know you have made an impression on your children when they keep it a secret from mommy when daddy and them go to McDonalds when Mommy is at work. They will say, “Mommy, Dad took us somewhere that is unhealthy.” Love it!
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