5 Little Monsters Hiding Under The Bed

This week for Large Group, we read the story 5 Little Monsters Hiding Under The Bed.  We worked on our counting skills.  We counted the monsters on each page and then,  as each monster "bumped their head, we "took away" a monster from our number so we would know how many were still hiding under the bed.  After we read the story we used a big sheet that the teachers held up to pretend that we were monsters hiding under the bed.  We counted how many monsters, or friends in our class were under the bed and then when we heard our name, we jumped up and "bumped" our head on the sheet.  We worked on our language skills as we all repeated the familiar phrases of the story like..."mommy called the doctor and the doctor said, no more monsters hiding under the bed".  We also used our math skills again to count our friends and as we bumped our heads, we "took away" one friend each time until we had counted down to zero.  

You can do this at home by acting out this story or any other favorite story or nursery rhyme.  This helps develop language comprehension and expression.  It also helps children express what they are thinking and feeling through pretend play.