Working the dirt

       We moved on to learning about "Potatoes". We talked about the day of the week and that it was raining outside. I asked everybody "When might you eat a potato?" The children caught me off guard again with" It's really hard you can't bite it." All I could do is laugh. The "Concept Review " on "Numbers" was a blast. I used the potato head bodies and some numbers from my magnet board. This went over so well with the kids I am going to do this again to review numbers.The children came up with color brown right away as a color for a potato. I am buying potatoes tomorrow for the "Potato Roots Experiment". I think the children are going to enjoy keeping track of the potatoes. I can not wait for the next adventure. 

 Learning our numbers and counting with potato head toys. I had fun with this activity too. We will definitely be doing this again. I think we will dress up the potato head toys next time.

The "Garden Dominoes" activity challenged the children. They had to take some time to figure out how the dominoes match up. Counting the beans took longer than expected because the kids really liked looking, picking up and trying to understand what makes up a bean. With each month's curriculum there are so many things I can bring into the month of June to help the children review. I keep coming up with other ideas of how to do it. I am ready to get started now, but I have to wait till Monday.
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Vegetables, numbers , and colors

  With going to a funeral, having Monday off, and working on final projects for the class I am taking our week has not been done in order at all. We did start with the "Carrot" lesson. I have picked different things out of the lessons for this week. I try all the time to get everything in all the lessons done. There are days that does not happen. I have been reading messages from other bloggers that have not gotten everything in the lessons done. What I am going to try is bringing those lessons into the months of June and July to help with reviewing what they have learned.I started things off with" Where do carrots grow?" and the children kept me on my toes again with"Because they grow in the ground"I asked the children about the shape of a carrot and they surprised and triangle right away. The "Carrot Sewing " activity is super cool for fine motor skills. The kids had trouble doing it with just their fingers so i got some of the plastic needles from the "Ocean Commotion" curriculum.Doing this helped the children with the activity. My other favorite part of this lesson was when I asked the children"Why do you think it is important to eat carrots?" . One little girl told me " I eat baby carrots with ranch." Another little girl told me " I like to eat carrots with jalapeno peppers." I like how teaching challenges me every day. 

We did the "Concept Review" about "Colors" and I got so excited because the chidren did so well with it.

 We sewed and sewed and sewed and sewed our carrots and glued the stem on. The children were very determined to finish the carrot. The kids get excited with all the activities in the Mother Goose Time Curriculum.
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We are out in the garden visiting the animals

 The kids got creative with the bunny mask. It got a lot of cotton balls.

 We fed out crows jalapeño peppers and ice cream sandwiches. We had making different scarecrows too.

 

    We started off the week ready and willing to learn. We learned about "Moles". I was not sure about doing the "Mole Tunnels " , but the children loved it. One little girl used the rabbit counters as moles and kept putting them in the tunnels. She had a blast doing it. Making the "Rabbit Mask" was an interesting adventure.  I decided just to cut holes for the eyes and mouth so the kids could more of a rabbit face on their mask. Putting the cotton balls on the mask turned into how many cotton balls will fit on the rabbits face. The "Feed the Crow " game and "Build a Scarecrow" really grabbed the children's  attention. It made them work to come up with different solutions. 
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We are in the outdoors with bees and toads

Here this week has been reminding me why I am trying to get my teaching degree and why I am a daycare provider.My grandmother passed away on Wednesday  May 20th,2015. She was 96 years old. She was always learning something new . She was always trying new things. With Mother Goose Time Curriculum it allows the children to be constantly  learning and trying new things. The children and I loved the "Pollinate the Flower " activity. They had a fun time tearing the red paper to make the Poppies. They were fascinated with the cornmeal. They liked painting with the cotton balls but it took them a little bit to get used to them. Making the toad was a blast. I let the kids color the cup first. Then they went to gluing on the toad's bumps. I loved the way their toads turned out.I was so excited  with how both of these activities had the kids using their creativity  and fine motor skills.The movement based activity that I used to help the kids with numbers is the Conept Review from the Toad lesson. When you incorporate movement with math it can make learning numbers for children much easier.

  I love these pictures because the children are pollinating their Poppies like crazy. They really got a fantastic hands on experience  with this activity.

    

 Hopping like a toad and learning our numbers. The children took a lot of time making the toads. They enjoyed making the toads.
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