Many Healthy Munchies

Many Healthy Munchies

Daily Question:  Have you ever seen a moose? 
The Moose is the largest animal in the DEER Family.

 Many Healthy Munchies

Toys: Play Doh Cookie Monster's ABC Stew and Play Market with toy money and play foods.

Snacks: Muffins and milk

Math:  Money Exploration

We (briefly) explored play coins and money.  We talked about pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, as well as, $1, $5,$10, and $20 bills.  

Parents, please review with your child cash and money sense. 

To Market, To Market:  Students had fun putting on a play Market (Greg's Grocery Store).  We had store clerks, shoppers, and food stockers.  We also reviewed healthy "munchies" put in students baskets. (Science/Foods/Nutrition lesson)

What is a munchie?  (Another name for a snack).  What is a healthy snack? Vegetables, fruits, whole grain crackers, cheese, yogurt, etc.

   

Songs: Do you know the Muffin Man?

First Verse:
Oh, do you know the muffin man,
The muffin man, the muffin man,
Oh, do you know the muffin man,
That lives on Drury Lane?
Second Verse:
Oh, yes, I know the muffin man,
The muffin man, the muffin man,
Oh, yes, I know the muffin man,
That lives on Drury Lane.

Making Muffins:  We had fun reading directions, adding ingredients, and baking muffins to eat while we listened to a story  If You Give a Moose a Muffin about a moose who wanted a muffin, we listened and danced to a Moose and Muffin song. 
 

M the Moose Activity:  M the Moose tells his mother he can eat up all the meatballs "m-m-m." Students say the "m" sound while patting their tummies. 

Students color the moose and cut the strip of healthy munchies beginning with the letter m through the moose’ mouth (teacher makes a slit on the left side of the moose mouth for the children).

I Spy “M” Discussion:

We discussed healthy foods that begin with Mm: macaroni, meat, milk, muffins, meatballs, marshmallows (not so healthy!), and munchies.

Other M words we talked about together: moose, market, "munchie" mom, mother, month, mouse, mice, money, mitten, and M&Ms. 

Harris's Birthday Celebration

Favorite toy: diggers and excavators

Color: Blue

More M or Healthy Snack Books:

A Bad Case of Stripes

If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Numeroff, Ill. by Felicia Bond

 If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff, Ill. by Felecia Bond

Jack Sprat (Nursery Rhyme)

Pete's A Pizza by William Steig More Spaghetti I Say! by Rita Golden Gelman, Ill. by Mort Gerberg