Chickens

We just started a new month with Mother Goose Time, which means a new theme.  This month is down on the farm, and we started day one with chickens.

Every month starts with a new name tag.  Ronan can't write his name, or even trace it at this point.  I write his name on the name tag and hopefully that will help him with recognizing it later.  He's working on holding crayons and pencils the right way which is what we practice on the name tags.  Elli likes to help Ronan "do school" so she used her white board to write her name and draw a barn with animals.

The kids played a game where they took turns rolling the pocket cube and moving a baby chick around the game board to the coop.  If they rolled the fox before the chick made it home then they had to start over.  The girls really liked playing this game with their little brother and helping him move the piece and roll.

Ronan was given an egg that he could use to paint a picture, but instead wound up finger painting the egg and his paper.  He LOVED the paint and was quite happy getting his hands dirty with it.  

We finished up by reading Blue Chicken.