Letter M Week (Work in Progress)

Very bummed out that Confessions of a Home Schooler's web site wouldn't allow me to download a few of her awesome M&M related materials, as those are by far Natalie's favorite treat (with Oreos a close second).  

As I've said before, I do NOT take out all of the books  listed each week.  This is a list generated from what we have already read or have on our to-read list.  I like to have lots of choices in case you you strike out while looking for books. 

Books:
Cars books with Mater
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie; If You Take a Mouse to School; and If You Take a Mouse to the Movies by Laura Joffe Numeroff
If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Mouse Paint; Mouse Count; Mouse Shapes and other books featuring mice by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Tale of Two Bad Mice by Beatrix Potter
The Lion and the Mouse (great book to use two weeks in a row!)
Leonardo, the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems (another two week in a row books!)
Big Green Monster, Go Away; Sad Monster, Glad Monster; If You're a Monster and You Know it by Ed Emberly
Monster at the End of the Book by Jon Stone
Monster, Monster by Melanie Walsh
Madeline series by Ludwig Bemelmans
Who Made This Cake? by Chihiro Nakagawa
How a Crayon is Made  by Oz Charles
Are You My Mother? by P. D. Eastmen
Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? by Eric Carle
A Chair for My Mother by Vera B Williams
Max and Ruby series by Rosemary Wells
Bedtime for Mommy by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Mommies and Their Babies by Guido Van Genechten
Mommy Mine by Tim Warnes
Mommies Say Shhh! by Patricia Polacco
Mommy Hugs; Where is Mommy's Baby?  both by Karen Katz
Just a Little Music by Mercer Mayer (bonus author Ms!)
M is for Music by Katherine Krull  (alphabet books)
Violet's Music by Angela Jonhson
Music by Neil Ardley (non-fiction for older kids, but great photographs of instruments)
Busy Monkeys by John Schindel
Do Monkeys Tweet by Melanie Walsh
Curious George series by H. A. Rey 


Other ideas include: monster trucks, magic, moon, milk, magnet, mail, magenta. 

Activities:
Trace M with M&M's! 
Magnet sheet from Confessions of a Home Schooler (monkey, not M&M)
M scavanger hunt
M item bin
Play doh - M cookie cutter, M impressions, and trace M on a printable
Read M books
M into a mouse
Mail Santa's letter
Wore Minnie Mouse Pjs
M coloring sheets
With A LOT of help, traced word "mouse"
Mouse craft with candycane tail (it was Christmas time when we did M)



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