Lassos

For day 3 with Mother Goose Time we learned about lassos.  One of the numbers of the month, 13, was introduced today during circle time.  I tied 13 knots in a rope and the girls counted them while touching each one; a great way to teach one to one counting.  

The girls practiced making shapes with twine.  They rolled a shape cube and then tried to recreate the same shape.

 The girls also worked on the covers of their my little journals today.  They were to draw pictures of themselves as cowgirls.  

Every monthly box from Mother Goose Time includes a new story book.  This month it is Who Am I?  There will be a page with a description, and then when you turn the page you find out who the animal is.  There is also a prompt that gets the kids up and moving by acting like various animals.  It's a fun interactive book with great photos.  

After reading a book about animals in the desert, the girls played with the rubber horse manipulatives from this month in a tub of sand.  Sine our sand box is still covered in snow we just used pink kinetic sand, which is also less messy.  Of course the horses needed baths once they were done in the sand.

We talked about different things you could catch with a lasso, and then the girls make their own with a paper plate and yarn.

Then they put their newly made lassos to the test.  They lassoed the few stuffed horses we have, and also the rubber horse manipulatives.  They had a lot of fun trying to "catch" the animals.  

We finished up with a book about cowboys.