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 also met our friend Mario Monster.

Mario likes to eat, but he will only eat things that start with the "M" sound.  We took turns feeding "M" things to Mario and practicing saying the "M" sound as we fed him.  We fed him a mop, money, a mug, a mouth, a monkey, a mouse etc...  When we were finished his tummy was so full and he thought the food we fed him was "mmmm" good!!

You can read Big Green Monster at home and have your child "help" read the story by saying "go away".  You can check the book out from the library or if you search "go away big green monster ed emberley" on YouTube, you can watch a reading of the book.