Theme of the Month
Zoo
Book of the Week
By Peggy Rathmann
Color of the Week
Black
We have a black gorilla on our hands!
See what other animals or objects
you can find this week that are also black!
Song/Nursery Rhyme of the Week
5 Little Monkey’s Jumping On the Bed
Five little monkeys jumping on the bed,
One fell off and bumped his head.
Mama called the Doctor and the Doctor said,
“No more monkeys jumping on the bed!”
Four little monkeys jumping on the bed,
One fell off and bumped her head.
Papa called the Doctor and the Doctor said,
“No more monkeys jumping on the bed!”
Three little monkeys jumping on the bed,
One fell off and bumped his head.
Mama called the Doctor and the Doctor said,
“No more monkeys jumping on the bed!”
Two little monkeys jumping on the bed,
One fell off and bumped her head.
Papa called the Doctor and the Doctor said,
“No more monkeys jumping on the bed!”
One little monkey jumping on the bed,
He fell off and bumped his head.
Mama called the Doctor and the Doctor said,
“Put those monkeys straight to bed!”
Letter of the Week
G for Gorilla
“Every letter makes a sound, G says Guh!”
Snack of the Week
Monkey Snack
Get a rice cake or cut a slice of break into a circle.
Cover with peanut butter
(or another nut or sunflower butter if nut’s are not allowed!)
Take 3 slices of banana, put one on the left side and one on the right to create your monkeys ears!
Then cut the last slice in half and use it for the mouth (leaving a space between top and bottom lip to resemble the monkey’s mouth)
Now add 2 raisin’s for the eyes.
Wah-lah! You have an easy monkey snack!
Art Project of the Week
Who doesn’t LOVE a paper plate face or MASK?
I know masks are popular with my preschool clients.
So let’s make a monkey mask.
DLTK has a great template which makes it super easy
for you to do this project and end with a cute little monkey mask!
Check it out here: Monkey Masks
Field Trip of the Week
Have you made it to the zoo yet?
Or did you create a pretend zoo in your house?
Either way if you haven’t been yet – go this week!
This is our last week of our zoo theme, so really…do it!
Go to the zoo.
If you don’t have a zoo nearby.
Find the nearest zoo and see if
you can make a family trip to that zoo
on an upcoming weekend.
These are the types of trips your kiddos will remember forever!
App of the Week
This is not a monkey, nor is it an “app” BUT…
The national zoo which is in my backyard has a Panda Cam.
I know, it’s not with our monkey theme this week but this panda cam is SUCH a huge hit with all of the kids that I work with that I can get them to do almost anything in a therapy session in return for time watching the panda cam!!
There are 2 cam’s and you should be able to
see baby Bao Bao and mama bear live!
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Have fun with the Zoo theme this week! We are on to our next topic next week: SPRING!!
With Love,
Hallie
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