If You're A Monster and You Know It

This week for Large Group, we looked at the book If You're A Monster and You Know It by Rebecca and Ed Emberley.  We practiced snorting and growling, smacking our claws, stomping our paws, twitching our tails, wiggling our warts and giving a roar.  We stood in a circle and sang the song If You're A Monster and You Know It.  While we sang the song we acted out all the monster actions.  When we were finished with the song, we took turns choosing how we would move if we were a monster. We chose to march, twirl, jump, crawl, scratch and shake our shoulders.  We worked on answering "wh" questions and following directions as we made our choice and followed the action that was chosen.  

You can sing the If You're a Monster and You Know It song at home by copying the link below and pasting it into your browser.  If that doesn't work, just google  If You're a Monster and You Know It song.

http://www.scholastic.com/browse/media.jsp?id=1358

Go Away Big Green Monster!

This week for Large Group, we read the story Go Away Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley.  As we read the story about Big Green Monster's eyes, ears, nose, mouth, teeth and hair, we pointed to our own eyes, ears, nose, mouth, teeth and hair.  We helped teacher Heidi read the story by telling Big Green Monster's body parts to "Go Away".  When they had all gone away, we told Big Green Monster to "Go Away" and not come back until we said so.  We made Big Green Monster disappear.  

We had our own Big Green Monster in our class and we took turns putting the parts on his face and then telling them to "Go Away" and taking them off.  

We talked about the parts of our bodies and identified our own eye, nose, mouth, teeth, ear and hair as we were reading the story.  When we were finished reading the story, we stood up and sang Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes using a "monster" voice.  We also sang the song fast, slow, in a loud voice, in a whisper voice and with no voice.

We learned another song called If You Ever See a Monster.  When we sang this song we made some scary faces and said the word "BOO" at the end.

You can sing this song at home with the following words to the tune of Did You Ever See A Lassie:

If you ever see a monster, a big ugly monster.

If you ever see a monster then here's what you'll do.

Make this face (make scary faces) and that face and this face and that face.

If you ever see a monster, make sure you say BOO!