Waterfalls

 This month with Mother Goose Time we haven't been doing the days in order.  I've just been letting the girls pick what topic they want to learn for the day.  Today Elli picked waterfalls.  She started by coloring her waterfall picture and coming up with other words that started with W.

She had a lot of fun playing waterfall race, which was like shoots and ladders.  Simple games like this are good for practicing counting, taking turns, and following rules.

Elli completed the pages from her more math and literacy workbooks.  These have been a great add on for her.  

For the invitation to create Elli made her own waterfall picture using paper, pebbles and crayons.

She finished up the day by doing the waterfall picture in her my little journal. 

Sunsets

Even though Addie is 8, she still loves to join in with Mother Goose Time.  She was home for the day so I let her pick out whatever day she wanted, and she picked day 20, sunsets. 

 The girls started by coloring the sunset pictures from the monthly coloring book.

The girls got paper, paint, black crayons and glitter to create their own sunset pictures.  They drew with the black crayons first and then painted over it and added the glitter.  They love the invitations the create that come in every monthly box.

The girls tried to beat the music by putting together the alphabet puzzle that came in this months box, before the song we were listening to ended.  

We also have a big foam alphabet puzzle that we used today.  The girls took it outside and built houses.

Elli completed her more math and literacy workbooks. 

Captains and Wind

This is Elli's first month using the More Math and Literacy books from Mother Goose Time.  So far she has really been enjoying the activities in them.  Each day she completes a math page, with things like measuring and counting, and a literacy page that focuses on letter sounds and the alphabet.  Elli is just starting to write letters and numbers so when there are ones she needs help with I write them in highlighter for her to trace.  

She's also been getting literacy work with the daily alphabet coloring pages that are in this months themed coloring book. The My Little Journal always provides additional writing practice and reinforces numbers, colors and letters.  

This monthly box came with a coconut tree that I taped to Elli's wall.  Everyday she adds the coconut letter that correspods to the days lesson.  She loves having this letter tree in her room, and even made a coconut with her name on it.

Elli made her own captains hat.

And then she got to pretend to be the captain of her own ship (aka her inner-tube).

Elli used the materials from the invitation to create to make her own sailboat.  She drew a bunch of cats in it and decided it was a boat just for them.

We talked about wind and Elli tried blowing different items across our counter.

We talked about the directions on a compass and then played a game.  I put the north, south, east and west cards on the floor and the girls took turns spinning the compass and jumping to the right direction.  It's been so nice we've been spending so much time outside and have fallen a few days behind this month.  I'm hoping to double up a couple days to get caught back up.  One of the great things about Mother Goose Time is that you can customize it to work for you.  If there's a topic the girls really like we sometimes spend multiple days expanding on it.  When we wind up missing days we can always spend less time on the activities to combine days and not miss anything.