Letter Mm Week!

I decided I have more time to post something I have made or seen on Sunday evenings rather than Monday afternoons.  So after another long week and planning for next week, I decided to create a detective page for my students.  We are working on the letter Mm squares, and colors this week and some of my ideas are:

Having my students walk the M.  They will try balancing as the walk the M that is made on the carpet with masking tape.  We also do this on a square. (Idea from our preschool teacher at my school)

Students will pretend to be a detective and will have to find items around the room that starts with the letter Mm.  Then, they continue as a detective by finding and circling the letter Mm on the page I created below. I hope to make a sheet like this for every letter of the alphabet.(The pictures came from Microsoft word art.)

Students will also turn a block Mm into a mouse. (Idea from: http://storytimekatie.com/2012/06/06/letter-m/)

Art projects besides the mouse M are: using marshmellows to paint the letter M and marble painting.

We also have a box with different items and toys that start with the letter Mm: mouse, mom, Moses, magnets, monkeys, M&M graphs, marbles, microphones, colorful macaroni sorting etc.

Fine Motor/Math Activities: Using toothpicks to punch out letter Mm, 5 Little Monkeys hand motions, sorting shapes and colorful pom pom balls, tracing, coloring, and cutting out square.

Science: We do math and science groups after snack where the students rotate each day to a new group instead of going to every group every day.  This week's science activity is making a graph about what color our water will turn when putting two different colors of food coloring in it.  They will also have free play/exploring with magnets. 

We have been learning each others' names and will play Name Bingo!  Kids love Bingo even if the prize is only a sticker! I have turned almost everything we do in class into a bingo game...shapes, numbers, names, letters, sight words, beginning and ending sounds, etc. 

I think this covers most of our morning activities for the week.  We are working on the Daily Five with the students in the afternoon.  I am working on a post about how we do that in pre-k and preschool and will hopefully have it posted soon! If you would like to know in more detail about our day or any of these activities, leave me a comment.  I love comments!