The train would squish you.

Washington , Illinois does not have snow now but it is still cold. We have been putting away Thanksgiving decorations and getting out Christmas decorations. All the kids and I have been learning new things.  We got some exercise in with  "Jumping Tracks". I had some orange ribbon that I put on the floor and we kept rolling the movement cube. It was good for the kids to get some exercise. They had fun and it helped them focus better.

     I have many blessings to be thankful for. Here are three of them. These are my three daughters. All three of them act just like me.  Another blessing I am grateful for is my grandmother. She will be 97 years young in January and is still learning new things each day. She stills drives and lives in her own apartment.

    The Bilingual Books are such a great help to teach the kids Spanish and to help them with English as well. There was opportunity for cutting practice, fine motor skills, and imagination. I went through the words on the books with the kids and they were starting to pronounce the Spanish words. I can wait to teach them more Spanish words. 

"Go to a Star" with the "I Can Read Book" gave us some practice with our sight words. I had the "Sight Word Pointers" out . After we read each page I had the kids match up the sight words with " Sight Word Pointers" I went slowly with each page because I wanted to give the children plenty of time to learn what each word looked like. We did the book at least twice. We even worked on the words on the back page of the book.

    We got our " Letter Engine" and we traveled the whole alphabet. This activity was set up so well. It was easy for the kids to use. I was in need of more letter recognition items for the children. I want them to be able to know every letter in the alphabet. They had so much fun with this. Any time there is a cube to roll they want to do it. I let them roll the cube . Then I had them tell me the letter . After this I had them find the letter on the train and put a triangle on it. I hope there are more activities like this one in future curriculum. There are more adventures that we want to take with Mother Goose Time Curriculum. The next time we share with everyone it will from "Sights and Sounds of Winter". " Happy Thanksgiving  to everyone!!!!!!!!

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