M is for Monkey

It's M week and look what Adam found at the grocery store. It amuses me that while I'm busy shopping Adam stops me and says, "take a picture of me with the monkey for M!" Yep, I've trained him well.For our book, we read Caps for Sale. We love, love, love this book! I don't know how to express the warm fuzzy feeling that came to me every time I read the page where the cap peddler, whose hats all disappeared while he was napping under a tree, looks up and Adam EVERY TIME would giggle knowing what was coming on the next page. (Spoiler alert: the peddler will discover that monkeys in the tree took his caps.) Whenever I wonder if reading the same book five days in a row is really meaningful, I'll think of Caps for Sale and how fun that anticipation was every day. I found A LOT of activities on the internet as this seems to be a popular book in the preschool world. One had a bunch of different hats to stack on top of a monkey. Adam amused us all by only picking the boy hats. He would not put a bonnet on his monkey.He gave Jill one of the bonnets, and she glued it on her coloring page. I love how proud she is!

We also collected hats to see just how many we could wear on the top of our heads like the cap peddler.

We even found time this week to be monkeys outside. Here Beth swings with Ellie at the park.And here Jason, Adam & Beth ride their scooters around our complex. I love these monkeys!

L is for Lion

This weeks book is Christian, The Hugging Lion. If you haven't already seen the video of this lion bought from a store, raised by two men, released to Africa and successfully becoming wild but not forgetting his two friends watch it here. I know it's the cat lover in me, but I get choked up every time. Anyway, the story's been turned into a picture book, and I couldn't resist. We enjoyed reading the story together and watching the youtube video. We talked about why it would be fun but not a good idea to have a lion as a pet. And we talked about unusual friendships. This really became our theme for the week. We read Aesop's Fable of the Lion and the Mouse and talked about that unusual relationship. We talked about the Good Samaritan and why it was unusual for the Samaritan to help the man. We read Isaiah 11:6, "The wolf will dwell with the lamb...the calf and the lion will feed together."

On this theme of unique relationships and opposites, we spent a day talking about another L word - lamb. We read about lambs and then drew a lamb using Adam's handprint. He then filled it in (maybe a bit too much) with cotton balls for that woolly lamb look :) The practice L's make a nice finishing touch.

Here is Adam "roaring!" It's fun to be a lion :)