Dad

Day 4 of Mother Goose Time's me and my family theme was Dad.

We always start our school day with circle time.  We go over the weather and calendar.  Elli also looked at the monthly theme poster and found the dad, who was buried under a bunch of buttons.  

We used the buttons for a math game.  We took turns rolling the included dice and adding the corresponding number of buttons to our shirts until we had 10.  After that Elli separated the buttons by color.

Every month we get the dance n' beats add on.  Elli loves getting up and moving to the catchy songs.

Elli decorated clothespins to look like people and built them houses.  She played with these for a very long time and also wound up building an apartment building for them.  She had so much fun with her newly made people that she asked to add them to her block bin to use all the time.  Such a simple idea and it will be sure to provide hours of entertainment in the future.

 I saved the invitation to create for when Addie would be home from school, since I know how much she loves art.  The girls looked at a picture of keys for inspiration and made their own pictures.  They both cut doors with key holes out of paper.  Addie attached hers to another piece of paper so they could open like real doors.  The glittery door was the entrance to a magical world.

The girls played Father May I.  They would roll the provided cube and then ask to do the funny walk.  They had a lot of fun with this game and we played it for a very long time.

We finished up with a book.