Counting with Monsters and Spiders

This week has been a sort of transition week as we've been finishing up some fall and Halloween topics, and getting ready to explore some new ideas and interests. 

We have also been integrating some discussions about our feelings lately- what they look like and what to do with them. So reading The Color Monster was a great fit for the week after Halloween, giving us a little extra time to play with monsters and our emotions. I think we'll be doing more with the ideas in this book though- it is such a great model for socioemotional skills, so this probably won't be the only time I write about it. 

But for this week, we made some silly counting monsters. 

We also started exploring spiders a little bit more in depth, and one of our activities used this same counting idea with googly eyes and pipe cleaner legs.