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The five little monkeys rhyme is one that I think just about every child knows. There are several books that chronicle their mischievous adventures. These books make for a great basic 5 little monkeys math activity.
To prep for the activity, I pulled out some monkey head erasers that we used here. We also used the foam tree from our Otis the Tractor book activities.
Using wooden puzzle pieces and plus/minus/equals paper squares, Bear {4.5} practiced simple math where the sums and differences were no greater than five {to incorporate the 5 little monkeys}.
After I had set up the problem, Bear was able to find the answer using the erasers as a math manipulative.
I hope you have fun monkeying around with this activity as much as we did! {You didn’t think you were gonna get away without a bad joke, did you?}
