Character Rhymes

This week with Mother Goose Time has focused on character rhymes:  Humpty Dumpty, There was a Crooked Man, Itsy, Bitsy Spider, Hey Diddle Diddle and Old King Cole.  

The girls did lots of literacy work this week.  Addie read the I Can Read book to Elli, while Elli worked on finding the sight words in the book.  They did some pages in the my little journals, looked at letter cards to determine which ones were straight versus crooked, used wikki sticks to make straight and crooked letters, and also used the shape stamp from this months box while writing post cards.  They played a game where they would roll the cube and then jump over the letter that matched the cube card or sound.  Elli also played a game where she would find a picture that matched the sound she rolled on the cube and stick it to her tape spider web.

Elli used the shape beads, one of the manipulatives in this months box, on the shape creation mats.  She also used them to make different shapes in play dough.

Every monthly box comes with a new cardboard puzzle.  Elli loves doing these.

We talked about finding the shortest distance between two places.  

And of course the girls made lots of art.  Spider web pictures, wire sculptures, broken egg pictures, crowns, and spoon men.  Next week will focus on food rhymes. 

Number Rhymes

February's theme with Mother Goose Time is nursery rhymes.  Week one was devoted to rhymes about numbers.  Mother Goose Time is a comprehensive, all in one boxed curriculum.  It focuses on physical and emotional development, literacy, math, social studies, science, and creative development. 

For literacy work this week Elli practiced writing her name on her name tag, worked on finding and identifying the letter I on the monthly rhyme time poster, worked on a few pages of her my little journal, and listened to Addie read the book of the month.  

For math work Elli counted money to buy food, sorted shape beads, used our sorting pie to work on colors, used the sheep manipulatives to work on counting, played a counting game with Addie,  played a clock game, sand sorted sheep by size and color.

For creative development Elli made pig finger puppets, a play dough pie, built with cornstarch noodles, painted her own door, made a Baa Baa Black Sheep story telling set, and she and Addie made mice headbands.  

Elli also worked on following a recipe to make play dough.  She used the look and find glasses to search for different things on the theme poster and then followed the prompts on the back of the glasses.