Baby Animals

A new month means a new theme with Mother Goose Time.  January is all about baby animals.  Day 1 started with pregnant moms.

We started by looking at the monthly theme poster.  The girls took turns finding all the different types of baby animals that were pictured.

They also completed their new name tags for the month.  Addie practiced writing her name in cursive, and Elli is now able to write her first name all by herself.

The monthly numbers are 5 and 15.  The girls used the plastic pigs from this months box to work on counting and estimating.  Elli worked on counting using the pigs for help.  Then I put different amounts of pigs in a sock and the girls had to feel it and guess if they thought it was more or less than 5.  After they guessed we'd dump them out and count.

The girls used play dough to make a big mama pig and then used the little pig manipulatives as babies.  

Cats are Elli's favorite animal so she was very happy to make her own cat mask.  After they were made the girls pretended to be cats.  They had me build a cage out of couch cushions and then they would escape and run away and I'd have to find them and bring them back.  They had so much fun with this game that they played it until dinner time.