November

November
Aviation Month
Peanut Butter Month
1- National Author’s Day
2 - Cookie Monsters b-day
4 -  Election day
11 - Veteran's Day
19 - Have A Bad Day Day
19 -  Mickey Mouse's B-day
21- World Hello Day
23- National Bible Week
23 - National Adoption Week
24-Jewish Book Month
27 -  Thanksgiving
30 - Stay Home Because You’re Well Day

November19th
Mouse Cookies
With the children, prepare a batch of drop cookie dough. Demonstrate how 
to drop three spoonfuls of dough onto a cookie sheet so that it will 
resemble a mouses head with two ears when baked. The mouse cookies can be 
frosted or details can be added with raisins, chocolate chips, an dstring 
licorice.

Mouse Day
To celebrate Mickey's birthday read the book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie 
by Laura Numberoff. Sing Happy Birthday and celebrate w/ mouse cookie snacks.

Play Mouse, Mouse, Where's the Cheese
This game is played in cicle formation. Arrange the chairs and place one in 
the center of the circle.Place a block to represent the cheese under the chair. 
Select one child, the "mouse" to sit on the chair and close his or her eyes. 
Then point to another child. This child must try to remove the cheese without 
making a sound. After the child returns to his chair in the circle, instruct 
all of the children to place their hands behind their backs. Then in unison 
the children say,"Mouse, "Mouse, Where's the Cheese?" The "mouse" then opens
his/her eyes and tries to guess who is holding the cheese.

Mice
Purchase or borrow mice from a pet store to keep as classrooms pets. Allow the 
children to assist in caring to the animals

Mouse
Here is a mouse with ears so funny, 
(place index an dmiddle finger on thumb to represent a mouse)
And here is a hole in the ground.
(make a hole with the other fist)
a noise he hears, he pricks up his ears
And runs to his hole in the ground.
(jump mouse into hole in other fist)


* Here is a suggestion (from the net) for Veterans' Day. Have the children 
 make cards for the men and woman in VA hospitals. They must be in by the 
 end of this month. We have done this before and we received a very nice 
 letter of thanks.
 Operation Appreciation
 Non Commissioned Officers Association
 225 N Washington St.
 Alexandria VA 
 22314