Happy with Mother Goose Time

This week with Mother Goose Time the girls are learning to identify feelings.  We started off the first day with happy.

How many different ways can you smile?  According to Addie there are just 2, with or without showing your teeth.  

not bad for a 2 year old, although it look more sad than happy

In today's bag there was a my feelings book.  The girls will be working on this all week.  Addie wrote a sentence about when she feels happy and drew a corresponding picture.  Elli just drew a bunch of smiley faces.  

 

I read The Woodcutter's Woes to the girls.  They used their facial expressions to mimic the corresponding emotions in the story.   When the woodcutter wished his wife had sausages on her nose, the girls taped some on their noses.  They thought was hilarious.

I love the map that came in the starter kit.

I showed the girls were France is and they put the French global friend on the map.  We talked about games that make them happy and what games frustrate them.  Then I told them about the game Petanque, which is played in France.

Then they tried a version of the game.  They took turns rolling a large ball and then bouncing smaller ones to see who could get theirs the closest.  

 The girls used the provided recipe card to create smiley face creations using rice cakes, raisins, peas, peppers, etc.  Then they got to eat them.  Addie asked if we could make them again tomorrow.  She loves anything remotely similar to cooking.

Elli worked on her tray play activity from the Little Goose supplement, using play-doh to make faces.  While Elli was busy with that, Addie completed her more math and reading workbooks.  She also retold the story in the reading book to Elli, who was happy to sit and listen.

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