Week 18 - Letter M

Last week was letter M and we went with a very YUMMY theme - M&Ms!!  :) I have a ton of pictures from this week, and believe it or not, we didn't even get through everything I wanted to do.  I guess maybe I planned a little too much.  :)

Jenna enjoying the Letter M with the Starfall app on my iPad.

Wikki Stix

Working hard on her lacing card

All done!

Size sort

Prewriting pages

Letter M Puzzle

Jenna had a little trouble making the M on her geoboard.  Making the two slants in the middle of the letter was confusing to her.  She kept wanting to make them straight.

Do-a-dot page

Color Puzzles

Poke page

More practice matching lowercase letters to the uppercase letters.

For her ABC book, she glued marshmallows to the letter M.  I actually cut the marshmallows in half so they wouldn't stick out as much.  It worked out well and Jenna did a good job gluing the sticky side down.

Sticking the sticky side of the marshmallows to her fingers - fun, fun!

Of course we had to have some fun with actual M&Ms.  I have an M&M counting book from when I taught that I thought would be fun.  It has you sort a certain number of M&Ms by color and line them up in specific designs.  We only did the first half of the book because the second half gets into making sets and since Grant was a part of this activity, I knew it would be too much for him and probably for Jenna too.  They both enjoyed it and did a good job of following directions.

Jenna picked out the stickers and completed the letter maze all on her own.

Patterning

Counting practice

Pattern Blocks

Another time I gave the kids a bowl of M&Ms and had them sort them by color.

He does a great job with his colors (minus the stray orange M&M on the yellow spot).  :)

Then we combined each color of M&Ms into clear cups, added some water to cover them all, and the kids got to paint.  I saw this idea online and thought it would be fun!

I was curious to see how well the dye was for painting and was really surprised at how vibrant the colors were.  They actually make for great paints!  Oh, and I didn't tell Jenna to write the letter M - she did that all on her own.  I thought that was cute!

Cutting practice

Letter writing - on the back of the paper I wrote the word "Mom" and tried to have her copy it.  Since we've already covered the O and are now doing M, I thought it would be pretty easy for her.  Nope...still challenging to copy letters without the aide of dotted lines.  It'll come...

Letter M tracing page

Letter Hunt

Number cards - she loves using the paper clips for these

We read the classic If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Numeroff.  I had planned on also making muffins with the kids, but that was one of the activities we just didn't get to.

Some more building practice.  Still challenging, especially when having to make a pyramid shape.

She colored her M&M paper when I wasn't around, but apparently she just likes to eat the pink M&Ms - perfect for the Valentine's season.  ;)

This was supposed to be her graphing practice and I had planned on using real M&Ms to graph, but we were running short on time, so I skipped the M&M part and just had her match the number cards. 

Letter M sort

My cousin had actually given me this puzzle (along with many other teaching resources) as a graduation gift upon graduating from Cedarville.  It's so much fun and fit in PERFECTLY with our theme this week! 

Lastly, we added the letter M to our coconut tree.