Mad, Surprised, and Scared

We had fun finishing up our week about feelings with Mother Goose Time.

For math practice Elli worked on patterning and also counting to 10.

We played a game where Elli would roll a feelings cube and a body part cube and act out what it landed on.  

The girls LOVED playing find the spider.  I hid the included spider under a cup and the girls had to climb into a yarn web and guess where it was.  If they were wrong I would call out a color and they would have to run around the house and find something that matched before they could go again.

For literacy work Elli used the story telling set to retell the story of Little Red Riding Hood and the Lonely Wolf.  She also used the included letter cookie cutters to make M, A, and T.  If I called out the letter M for mad she would crush the letters up in her hand.  The girls also worked on completing more of their my little journals.

Elli made her own birthday crown, which she wore around for most of the day.  When Addie got home from school and saw it she had to make her own.

We read My Many Colored Days.  Elli made her own many colored person and asked me to help her replicate the inspiration picture.  I told her how to mix the colors to make the ones she saw on the color wheel.  She loved being able to make her own piece of art and also being able to duplicate another piece.  

We talked about different things people are scared of,  like the dark.  The girls made puppets and then we took them into a dark room and used a flashlight to make shadows and tell stories.  They had a lot of fun with this.

They also had fun making their own "scary" monsters out of play dough.  Next week we will learn all about pets.  Since both the girls love animals I know it will be a fun week for them.

Mad Made Fun

 This week with Mother Goose Time the girl are learning about identifying feelings.  Today's feeling was mad.  

making a surprised face

We used the monthly theme poster and talked about what emotions the different faces were showing.  The girls used the look and find glasses to find the faces and then copy them.

We played sight word lap, which the girls loved.  I called out a word for Addie or color for Elli and they had to find it and slap it with the fly swatter.  We pretended the cards were mosquitoes, which make us mad when they bite.

The girls each got a copy of this months I Can Read book.  Addie read it to Elli; she was able to figure out all the words except friends.  

Addie used the sight word arrows to find and point to the matching words from her book.  I like that these little books have words simple enough for Addie to figure out.  They're great for building confidence in beginning readers.

 The girls completed the mad page in their my feelings booklet.  Elli said her picture was of a shovel.  She gets mad when our puppy takes her sand shovel.

The girls each got a dish of cornstarch and conditioner.  They felt both and guessed what would happen if they were mixed together.  Then for the fun part, they added food coloring and mixed them.  It turned into a dough, good for squeezing when you're mad.  The girls loved this and played with it for over an hour and a half.  I was able to get a lot done, but didn't finish the entire lesson.  The following morning they had the dough out again and were using it with the cookie cutters.