Feelings

This month with Mother Goose Time we have been learning about friends and feelings.  

The kids used the I Can Read books to find sight words.  These books are a good start to beginning reading skills.  They help with word recognition and have repetitive sounds.  

We also worked on letter recognition.  The kids loved using a fly swatter to smack the letter they were supposed to be searching for.  

Every month introduces 3 new letters.  The kids get to make their own letter book to take home.  

We also spend all month working in the my little journals.  There are pages to practice writing letters, numbers, drawing shapes, colors, etc.

The kids made their own mirrors and practiced making faces in them.

We looked at art by Picasso, and the kids used shapes to make their own abstract art.  

Each monthly box from Mother Goose Time comes with 2 books.  One of which introduces a character trait, this months was kindness, using forest animals.  The kids got their own rabbit puppet and made their own picture and story after listening to the book.

Using the parachute is always a hit.  We talked about being excited and bounced balls off it, hid under it, etc.  

We also played a letter match game where you had to avoid finding the surprised face.  

And we've used this months tanagram pieces quite a bit.  The kids have use them for patterning, making faces, designing shapes, etc.