Tot School-Monkeys

Lots of fun with the Monkey Theme this week. We were even able to go to the San Francisco Zoo yesterday and see some in person.


We started off the week by playing Feeding Monkeys (great
fine motor game), looking for monkeys in a container of rice,
and rolling a die (Dollar Store) and placing the same number
of bananas in the basket


Placing monkey erasers (Dollar Store) onto squares to practice
one-to-one correspondence (paper from Confessions of a
Homeschooler) and sorting monkey cards by color from the
card game 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed (I have lost
the instructions on how to play the card game, not board game.
If you know how to play, can you send me an email? Thanks!)

Hattie's friend Liam came over, and after we read the book,
"Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed," the kids made
headbands with monkey ears and jumped on pretend beds.
Hattie liked "bumping" her head the best

The kids then colored a picture of a
monkey (DLTK Kids) and glued it to
construction paper where they had stamped
on it using bananas (top right) For snack,
monkey bread of course! (bottom right)


Pretending to be a polar bear at the San Francisco Zoo

After we watched these bears hug, I mentioned to her that
the mama and baby bear were snuggling. She stopped me
and started to snuggle with me saying, "Awww, mama and
big kid snuggling."

L to R: I made a keyring zoo book created by All About the Journey.
We would look through the booklet and read the facts about each animal.
Amazingly, Celie fell asleep. A picture of Hattie holding a snake
(you know that's a fake snake, right?) and when we got home,
since she did not have any accidents while we were at the zoo,
she earned a zoo sticker sheet (Dollar Store). Even though I took
pictures of lots of monkeys, for some reason I didn't include
them in this post. Ha!