Winter Fun

If you're looking for a complete preschool curriculum with loads of engaging activities then Mother Goose Time is for you.  Each monthly box is based on a central theme and then contains 20 related topics.  This month we've been focusing on sights and sounds.  This has been a great theme for the month with Christmas coming up.  

The kids made bells, which will make great ornaments.  

They decorated and sewed stockings.  Lacing activities are a great way to develop fine motor skills.  

We spent a day learning about owls.  They kids worked together to each put their number piece into the puzzle to see what our topic for the day would be.  

We used this months shape manipulatives to work on shape recognition and matching to the owls of the same shape.  

They also made cute owls by decorating an owl shape and then adding googly eyes to muffin cups.  

Every monthly box from Mother Goose Time comes with a book, puzzle and magnet set.  The class worked together to build the puzzle, and were able to do it individually if they choose to.

We've also done holiday patterning this week.

The letter B was introduced and the kids made their letter B books to take home and add to their collections.

This months color is green.  The kids went on a hunt around the room and when a bell rang they had to grab something green and run back to  their spots.  Since we have been getting ready for Christmas there are plenty of green items throughout the room for them to choose from.  When we come back from Christmas break we will finish up sights and sounds before jumping into January's theme.  

Bells

The girls had so much fun with today's Mother Goose Time lesson about bells.

During circle time the girls tried to roll the provided jingle bells onto the hands on letter x's.  

They also tried ringing big and small bells and noting the difference in sound.  Elli worked on counting to 7, using the bells as counters.  Addie worked on separating the bells into groups of 7 and doing some basic addition.

We talked some more about how smaller bells sound higher.  Addie correctly predicted that a glass with a smaller amount of water in it would sound higher.  They had so much fun playing with the water bells, which was the suggested experiment for today.

The girls completed the x page in their my little journals.  Up until this month Elli has never tried tracing the letters.  Today I showed her how to trace the first line;  she worked hard trying to trace the rest by herself.

The girls made their own bells, which we hung on our Christmas tree.

We finished up with one of my favorite Christmas books.

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