Your students will "GO BANANAS!" for this great cross-curricular activity. This engaging, fun activity blends, music, reading, art/crafts, story retelling and math! Students put together the elements of the story (5 monkeys, a bed, the text and a cell phone) so that they can easily retell the story. Also included is a math element (a mat with the subtraction sentence: ____- 1 = ____, and number cards 0-5) so students can build subtraction sentences as each monkey falls off the bed. I have al