Deer

We started a new theme for December with Experience Early Learning.  This moth we're using the Experience Preschool curriculum, which is sights and sounds of winter.  Day 1 was spent learning about deer.  

Ronan practiced tracing his name, which at this point is just scribbling on paper.  He's getting better at holding markers (her preferred choice of writing implement) the correct way.  Every monthly box from Experience Preschool comes with new name tags to practice this skill.  

Ronan and Elli made deer headbands.  Ronan can't cut well with scissors yet so I cut out his hand prints for him.  He used the scissors to practises cutting the scraps.  I worked with him on keeping his thumb up and opening/closing the scissors.  These are good fine motor skills to practice with any preschool curriculum.

Elli and Ronan played spotted fawn.  They took turns rolling the pocket cube and putting the same number of cotton ball spots on the deer.  Ronan is working on counting, and can get to 6 by himself so far.  These games are good at reinforcing 1-1 counting correspondence.  I love that Experience Preschool comes with educational games that the kids think are fun.  It's a great preschool curriculum with fun and engaging lessons.  

The suggested book of the day was Stranger in the Woods, which the kids loved.  We also found another book in the library, Where Snowflakes Fall, which is about animals in winter.