Clothing

We've had a busy week learning about clothing with Mother Goose Time.  Every morning, after the kids clean up from free play, we do circle time.  This is when we decide what the weather is, review the day of the week, the date, read a related story for the days topic, and say the pledge.  The kids also get practice counting during circle time, every day we count up to the current date and also figure out what picture will come next on the calendar pattern.  After that we make a craft, that way if it's something with glue or paint it has plenty of time to dry.  We move on to other activities suggested from Mother Goose Time, have snack, and end with free play outside.  

This week the kids designed their own animal fur after learning about coats,

designed shirts and sewed buttons on them,

used pom poms with clothes pins to make polka dots,

 completed another alphabet page to add to our book we're working on for the year and also made hippo puppets,

and created shoes with laces.  Some of the kids love the art projects and will work on them for quite awhile, while others scribble over everything as fast as they can just to be done.  I'm trying to get them to slow down and take their time, but it's a work in progress.

The kids got to play matching games,

sorted coats by size and color,

sorted out buttons,

played bingo,

stained pants with sidewalk chalk and then sprayed them clean with water,

and practiced working with the letter H.

 Every monthly box from Mother Goose Time includes a book, puzzle, magnetic story telling set, and game.  These are good to use between activities while waiting for others to finish up, or when I need to clean up and put things away.  Using Mother Goose Time in the preschool setting has been quite a bit different than using it at home.  My girls have always loved all the suggested activities, and would frequently play the games again and again.  It seems like in the preschool setting there is always at least one kid who doesn't want to do the proposed activity.  So far I've just been telling them they can sit quietly while everyone else works on the current task.  Hopefully they'll all get more into it in the future.