Cherries

 My favorite manipulative that we got this month from Mother Goose Time is the above wooden fruit beads.  The girls LOVE these.  We talked about patterning and used the beads to make different patterns.  They also used them to make bracelets and necklaces and Addie helped Elli count them and sort them by color into the mini pie tins.  So many activities from such a simple thing.  They played with them for so long I was able to get our dinner prepped and in the oven to bake without the usual distractions. 

They also used the provided fruit cards to work on making patterns. 

tree

thank you

We talked about all the things trees do:  provide shelter, give us fruit, clean the air.  The girls learned sign language for thank you and tree.  Addie always likes the ASL cards and will ask me how to say random words in sign language, to which I never know the answer.  

Elli didn't take my word that glue covered popcorn is gross...she learned the hard way.

The girls really liked making cherry tree pictures.  They painted their arms to make prints for the trunk.  After they dried we made the provided bag of microwavable popcorn and the girls painted and glued them to make blossoms.  After that we had a movie night and ate the rest of the popcorn.  An added bonus for the kids.