We have had a fantastic week. Russia was the first stop on our journey. It took a little bit but all of us were able to say "Hello" in Russian. We kept saying "Privyet " and after 7 or 8 times we said it right. The Global Friends have been working out very well. We tried the song "The Brown Walnut". It came out okay. There is more work to do on that. I asked everybody what color walnuts were and they were not sure." Postcards from the Orchard" turned out to be a fabulous visual learning aid to help the kids understand how many walnuts can be in each walnut tree. Being able to fingerprint the walnuts and the leaves for the tree made the activity more appealing because the kids could do the activity on their own. They got to be creative, worked on fine motor skills, and they used logic skills. Walnut Counting kept our learning going. I used the postcards as the tree and let the kids put seeds on that. The kids enjoyed it and again they had a visual learning opportunity to see how many walnuts are in each tree.We have not made our Russian Tea Cakes yet. I want to try to do that this coming week.I can not wait to make them. I have never had them before and neither have the kids. It will be a great experience for all of us.
My house keeps looking more like a haunted house. I have spider webs, spider lights, and even big fake spiders. We have had some rain this week so that has slowed me down a little bit with putting lights around my door. All the kids keep looking at the decorations. The weather is supposed to be good in Illinois this coming week so I am very excited to get everything finished for Halloween.
Between using the seed collection to count with and the Walnut Counting Game the kids and me should be able to count in our sleep.The pictures on the Walnut Counting Game were very helpful. I liked the fact that I could let the kids try to match up the cards themselves. We were not able to watch the video about "Walnut Harvesting" because I could not get the link to work. We were able to do that on a different day.
Here we are watching a video I found on you about walnut harvesting. It is by California Walnuts. We watching a couple a videos by California Walnuts. They were fun.It helps the kids understand the process better.
The "Seed Collection" has been very intriguing to all the kids. They have not gotten bored with it . They look at each seed and they like picking up a whole bunch and seeing what they look and feel like. I have been truly enjoying watching all the kids discoveries. We have so many more adventures waiting for us with Mother Goose Time Curriculum.
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