This week has had all kinds of learning opportunities for my daycare kids and for my family. We have had our first snow and we have had more rain in Washington, Illinois than we know what to do with. My oldest daughter Adrionna basically lives down the street from us now so she comes over about everyday which has been an unexpected blessing for the holiday season. With Concept Review: Letter Tt I had to some things differently. The kids were have trouble visualizing a letter Tt so I put the Tt flag on a tray and had the kids put the train counters on the Tt flag. This helped tremendously. They could visually see how to make a letter Tt. Engine and Caboose and all kinds of cars in between is what we came up with for the parts of a train. The "Threading Train " activity was very cool. The kids got to be creative and use their fine motor skills with putting the noodles on the pipe cleaner. I had the kids color the noodles with markers , because other times when I let them paint them the noodles fall apart.
I have been laminating all the topic posters and put them up all around the house for the kids to help them review what we have been talking about. I have also been putting up the other letter poster I have from Mother Goose Time to reinforce the letters we have been talking about. It has helped the kids a lot. I will definitely be doing this for "Sights and Sounds of Winter" too.
The " Counting Canoe" game is a great way to teach math. I love the way it applies to real life concepts. Children learn more when they can apply it to something they have seen before. I colored the canoe page . I wanted the kids to think the canoe was out on the lake. It worked very well. The kids realized when there more of the kid cards on the canoe that all the kids would not fit in the canoe.
Counting Canoe had the kids logic and problem solving skills on overdrive.
We have been working in our "More Math and More Literacy " workbooks. We worked on writing numbers and number words.We worked on word endings too. I love these workbooks so much. They help the kids learn things in small steps where they can retain the information.
The " Thread a Train" was something the kids enjoyed doing. They were able to do most of the activity on their own. it is such a blast to watch the kids figure out the activity on their own. It blows me away every time. We have more adventures waiting for us with Mother Goose Time Curriculum. We will be back soon to share more of our adventures with everyone.
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