Barns

We started week 2 with Mother Goose Time's farm theme by learning about barns.  

Every monthly box comes with a brand new puzzle.  

Mother Goose Time had some good ideas that make doing a puzzle more than just putting the pieces where they go.  I numbered the backs of the pieces and then hid them in a bin of paper "grass."  The girls took turns finding the pieces and then worked to put them in number order.  After that they took turns putting their pieces in the puzzle.  

We played a game similar to charades.  The girls took turns rolling the picture cube into the "barn" that we made out of a blanket and chairs.  Then they'd come out and act out the picture while I and whichever child wasn't in the barn guessed what they were .  They thought this was a lot of fun and played it many times.  Addie used the word cards to practice sounding out words, but since Elli can't read, the picture cards were what we used for the game.  

We watched a youtube video of Click, Clack, Moo.

Then the girls traced their feet and turned them into cow heads (Elli asked me to draw hers).  They wrote their own letters to Farmer Brown with things they would want if they were cows.