Monkey Thursday

I was super busy last night with no time to post so I'm going to talk about yesterday and today (2 seperate posts).  We had a MONKEY day yesterday!

Curious George at the Aquarium
Happy Halloween Curious George This one was fun-it was in the form of a poem and had several tabbed stories.
First Words at the Zoo Good toddler book-not too much George though.
Curious George Plants a Tree (this would be GREAT for Earth day!)

For those of you new we're BIG fans of Curious George.  Check out all of our other posts about Curious George

We even had a George themed first birthday party.  Here are the cakes I made (the first was for us the second was the smash cake):

 

It originally had Monkey's name on it.

I had to add Monkey eating it of course :)

 

Starting Curious George-links to previous posts about George

So we already started reading our new theme. I swear Monkey KNOWS where the Curious George section is in every book store-he always finds it. We had to pick up a couple George books yesterday. What better place to start than the original George book?

Cecily G. and the 9 Monkeys by H.A. Rey
We bought this version from Barnes and Noble. It has a really cool afterward to teach you all about how George started! How would Curious Fifi sound? The afterward is written by the same person that wrote a book about the history of Margret and H. A. Rey. It was really interesting! I am planning to borrow it from the library to read. As for the book. In my opinion it was kind of crazy with several small stories within it and it should have been split in to a few books. It was still fun but kind of long to keep a 14 month old's attention. It's fun to see where George started though!

This post talks about a visit to a toy store, a hot air balloon, first day of school (which we ended up buying), and George feeding the animals.

This post talks about George visiting an ice cream shop.

And this one is about George's airplane trip.

We also recently got Curious George Plants a Seed
George decides to plant everything in the ground to see if it grows. It is a level 1 reader and it has activities to teach how to plant a plant and to see how water is absorbed by celery. I think we'll enjoy reading this book over and over!

Curious George Takes a Train
When Monkey found the George books yesterday we HAD to buy this one. We also got this book (That's Not My Train... an Usborne touchy-feely book) because Monkey loves trains. He's been on our public transportation train a couple of times and loves to play with trains on train tables. We got him/I painted him a name train for his first birthday. SO I couldn't resist this book. It would be a fun book to read to a kid before they go on a train. George ends up mixing all the numbers up on the train board and confuses everyone but keeps a kid off the train tracks so of course everyone forgives him. It was a fun story.

Another Curious George

Curious George Goes to an Ice Cream Shop
This was a fun book about George going to the ice cream shop and wanting to scoop ice cream. He always has his way of getting the owner of stores mad but in the end they all have a good laugh. It was a fun book.

Curious George

We LOVE Curious George at our house. We own this book and we love to read about George. My son's nickname is Monkey and I call him George a lot because he likes to be curious and get in to trouble (like any other 14 month old!). I highly recommend that book. It has all of the original books in it by Margret and H.A. Rey. We decided to check out all of the books that our library has about George so look forward to another post soon when we get the rest of them!

Curious George Visits a Toy Store
I wouldn't say this is our favorite George book but it's still fun. There's a new toy store that opens and George is excited to check out the new toys. He learns how to Hula-hoop and helps children get toys off high shelfs. The owner is mad at him throughout the book because he keeps making messes but in the end realizes that he made the grand opening a big success.

Curious George and the Hot Air Balloon
George and his friend visit Mt Rushmore on a vacation. Workers are working on Mt Rushmore and George wants to go in a helicopter to see what they're doing up close. They have to run to see the hot air balloon race though. While everyone is distracted George sees a rope and MUST climb it. While he's climbing the rope up to a balloon the rope that's holding the balloon down comes undone so he starts going up and up with the balloon. George ends up at Mt Rushmore again and helps save a stranded worker. They land and a big crowd rescues them. George then gets to go on a helicopter ride to see Mt Rushmore closer.

Curious George's First Day of School
I really liked this one and think we'll have to buy it so we can read it over and over when we're learning colors.

George is invited to visit school. He is very helpful all day. They get to paint and only have red yellow and blue paints. He decides to make more colors. He ends up mixing them all together and makes a big mess. He tries to clean it up but makes more of a mess and gets upset that everyone is mad at him. His classmates help him clean up.

Curious George Feeds the Animals
George visits the zoo and feeds the animals. He gets in trouble for feeding the animals until a lost parrot finds him. He's told not to feed the animals but is thanked for helping find the parrot. There are a lot of animals he sees (you read what they are) so it's great for learning animal names.