Halloween week meant closing out our spooky unit with Monsters! What a fun week with so many resources. We have a lot of Monster books and there are so many great free resources on Teachers pay teachers that are monster themed. It was pretty chilly and rainy for most of the week, so we got to watch some Monster movies during quiet time too! Whatever works!
After we did one graphing activity (count the images and then graph accordingly) he requested more the next day - it's something he can do independently now and really feels proud when he shows it to me when he's all finished. We also got a chance to use the Parquetry blocks and workbook that Gemma brought home from her vision therapy last week.
We did a lot of playing together this week which is always the kids' favorite. Rust and I challenged each other to catching falling leaves outside, we played the memory card game, and we played the dice game to color the monsters. We watched the Youtube read aloud for How to Catch a Monster about 10 times because there is one part that is so funny and we were both cracking up!
Unit: Spooky
Lesson: Monsters
Books we read:
Go Away, Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley
Gary the Monster (read by Violet - level E reader)
A Tale of Two Beasts by Fiona Roberton
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot by Scott Magoon
How to Catch a Monster by Adam Wallace
Hey, That's MY Monster by Amanda Noll
Memory Verse:
Rusty be nimble
Rusty be quick
Rusty jumps over the candlestick
(jump over a candle!)
Movies watched:
Monsters Inc
Monsters vs. Aliens
Language Arts:
Letter recognition: M and D
Writing "Mom" and "Dad" independently
Story Retell through pictures: How to Catch a Monster
Feed the monster symbol recognition game: shapes vs. numbers vs. letters
Math:
Graphing & counting monsters
Graphing & counting Halloween candy
Roll the dice to color monsters challenge vs. Mom
Parquetry Blocks puzzles
Handwriting:
2 pages
Social:
Discussion on perspective after reading A Tale of Two Beasts - are we monsters to anyone?
(Yes: to ants, flies, bugs, plants, bullies are)
Art:
Paper towel roll monster puppets
Physical Play:
Catching leaves falling from trees before they touch the ground (so challenging but so fun!)
Cooking:
Monster Brownies
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