M is for...

Mmmmm!  I love the letter M!!  To eat it!!  Muffins, milk, macaroni, meat!  To play with!!  Marbles, magnets, magic, mud, mazes!  To look at!!  Moon, mountains, maps!!  And to listen to!!  Music!

Other great M words: mittens, morning, mouse, monkey, monster, movies, mouth, mother, moose, mole, mirror, middle, mermaid, maze, mail, mailbox, mailman.  This is a great letter with lots of fun books and activities to accompany it!

Books

The Monster Who Lost His Mean  by Tiffany Strelitz Haber; illustrated by Kirstie Edmunds (2012)

If You Take a Mouse to the Movies  by Laura Numeroff; illustrated by Felicia Bond (2000)

Together at Christmas  by Eileen Spinelli; illustrated by Bin Lee (2012)
[I did not end up reading this one...but if you have a group of kids that sit and listen well, this is a sweet book about mice at Christmas]

Songs/Fingerplays/Rhymes

I am a Musician

(tune: "Here we go 'round the Mulberry Bush")

This is the way I play the piano,

Play the piano, play the piano.

This is the way I play the piano.

I am a musician!

Additional Verses:  Any musical instrument

I used trombone, trumpet, tuba, clarinet, flute, violin, drums

 

Five Little Monkeys

5 little monkeys jumping on the bed

1 fell off and bumped his head

Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,

"No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"

Continue counting down until all the monkeys have fallen.

Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet

Sat on her tuffet

Eating her curds and whey

Along came a spider

And sat down beside her

And frightened Miss Muffet away!

Enrichment Activities

• M&M sorting and counting
• Musical instruments
• Mitten match (from Oriental Trading)
• Magnifying glasses