Make letter M day a great learning experience for students. Use great vocabulary words like marvelous and mystical when you interact with the children. Have a prize for the student who can use the best M word. The prize can be an extra special letter M sticker.
Making an Alphabet Book
Students should add a page to their alphabet book for the letter M. They should practice both the upper and lower case letter M before writing them on their alphabet page, and then they should decorate the paper with pictures of other things that start with M. You can provide Magazines for them to go through and cut out items that start with M to glue onto their page.
Snacks that Teach the Letter M
Serve Mandarin Orange Salad for a tasty snack on letter M day. This is a super easy snack to make that will easily serve your entire class. all you need is cool whip, cottage cheese, mandarin orange slices, crushed pineapple, and orange jell-o mix. Each of these gets mixed together in a large bowl, after draining the mandarin oranges and pineapple. If you use low fat versions of each of the ingredients, you will have a healthy snack to serve as well.
Activities that Teach the Letter M
Many M words are fun to act out. Play charades to see how many ideas the students can come up with. They can act like monkeys, march around the room, pretend to be mad, and pay with money. Have foam letter M’s to hand out as prizes to the students for coming up with so many M words and being able to guess what each student acted out.
Provide a paper plate for each student to create their very own mask. They can decorate the mask any way they like, but some ideas for them include tiger stripes, monkey face, and teddy bear face. Provide various crafty items for them to decorate any way they like, including colored cotton balls from a craft store, glitter, foam shapes, and yarn for hair. Encourage students to use crayons as well, and help them cut out holes for their eyes, nose and mouth. Attach a piece of yarn to either side of the mask with tape to fix the mask on each child’s head.
Children will enjoy learning about the letter M with snacks and activities that teach them about the letter. Make letter learning fun and interactive, and encourage students to use as many words as they can that begin with the letter M.
Learn how to teach the other letters of the alphabet.
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