This months Mother Goose Time theme is discover the desert. We started off our first week at the rodeo. Day 1 was spent learning about cowboy boots, and day 2 was cowboy hats.
The girls wrote their names on the monthly name-tags and then practiced stomping out the syllables on different mediums, such as bubble wrap, the floor, paper, etc. They also looked at the shape of the month, a square, and practiced working together to make squares with their feet.
The girls, and one of our dogs, had fun square dancing on crunchy paper.
The girls had fun painting their own cowboy boots with a pokey ball.
The girls thought it was great fun to try on different pairs of boots. Then they each picked a boot and practiced tossing cubes, one of this months manipulatives, into the boots. They each got 10 cubes and worked on counting how many they made in the boot. Addie worked on her subtraction skills by calculating how many shots she missed.
The color of the month is brown. The girls went around the house using the circle time paintbrush to paint objects that were brown. They also gathered brown objects to fill up a cowboy hat.
They always love using the look and find glasses with the monthly theme posters. On the back of each magnifying glass are different tasks, such as stand like a cactus.
The girls played a matching game, where they paired up cowboy hats with the person wearing the same colored boots.
The girls worked on measuring by taking the connecting cubes and finding things longer and shorter than what they built. They also measured their heads with the cubes, and worked on making them the exact same length.
We continued with measuring, but switched to using a piece of twine.
After they were all done measuring objects, they used the twine to paint their own cowboy hat headbands. Elli is really excited to learn about lassos later this week, and Addie is looking forward to learning about her favorite animal, horses. So far they are loving this new monthly theme.
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