A million miles away

          This week has been up and down like a roller coaster. Today here in Washington, IL it is 63 degrees and sunny. Earlier in the week it was rainy,windy, cold and we had Tornado watches. I think the Mother Goose Time Curriculum and the curriculum I use to homeschool my daughter was a great help to keep the kids learning and happy this week. " Where is your favorite place to go in a car?" Out of the blue I hear " Florida" and "Farms".
Then we went on to the " Parking Cars " activity. I want to say "Thank you" to Stacy Ransom for putting her post up on this activity. It helped me a lot. I numbered the cars too. I left the papers together. I did not cut them apart.  I had the children roll the dice. Then depending what number they got on the dice I had them find the car that had that number on it. Once they found the car I had them name the shape on the car and I had them tell me what color the car was. After this I had them get the same color of "Transportation Counter" and had them park it in the space with the same number that was on the car.  It went great. The children got practice with colors, shapes, counting, and numbers. The children wanted to keep going with this activity for quite a while.   

  "Racecar Matching" was a learning success. Before I even started the lesson they were asking me if they could do this. " How fast can a car go ? " I got an answer that sounds more appropriate for a rocket " 6089". The kids did very well with this. I even asked one little girl who was holding up a letter "A" card " How many "A's" are in your name?" She told me 2 and she counted to 2 on her fingers. I was pretty excited about this.

    The kids jumped into this game. The way Mother Goose Time set up the game makes where the children can do it independently. This is fantastic because when a child can do a task on their own they will learn more from it. 

    The children loved "Parking Cars" so much they kept dumping the "Transportation Counters " off the mats and they wanted to do the activity again.

  For the Concept Intro: Pattern ABC I used three different colors of Counting Bears. The bears have been pretty popular with all the children. The Counting Bears gave the children a great visual aid to what a ABC is . I think the "Counting Bears " will be making more appearances this month.

  We have many amazing adventures waiting for us with Mother Goose Time Curriculum. We have to go but we will be back very soon with new adventures to talk about. 

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What are the things that help us get from place to place

            This has been a fabulous week.  All of us finished up " In the Orchard" and we had a blast with "Halloween". Everyone is enjoying "On the Go" so far. Washington, Illinois has been up and down in temperature all week. I am determined to work in more outside time for Mother Goose lessons and my daughter's homeschooling lessons. It rained most of the day on "Halloween". The rain cleared out around 4:00PM and I was so happy and excited. I enjoy Halloween so much with my family and with all the kids that come to the door. They are all so creative with their costumes.I was a Sock Monkey. My daughter Caitlyn was a nurse and my daughter Makayla was a evil mermaid. We did get to make the "Ladybug Pizza". We all had fun and the kids learned some math and they learned sequences. We got some effective practice with patterns with October calendar.

        We are still working with what we see on roads. The" Number 5 and Triangle Concept Intro"  I did at the same time . It went pretty well. The kids were able to find the triangle signs and they were able to count to five. I even asked them how many sides does a triangle have and we counted the sides on the triangle. 

   The manipulatives for "On the Go" are awesome. Every loves the traffic signs , car, and the transportation counters. I even got out the bus counters from September too.

   We worked on our " Build a Road Art". We still need to finish the signs. This activity gave the kids plenty of practice cutting. They also got to work on sequencing as well. The "Traffic Jam" went well. It made the kids really think about what they needed to do. 

"Stop Light Prop" was excellent. I thought this activity was set up very well. This activity was one the kids could do on their own. They got some more independence,self esteem, and confidence.

        The big stickers were a hit with the kids. Once they saw them they were ready to get them on there right away.

    The "Ladybug Pizza" also showed the kids they are able to make their food. They learned how to use a spoon, put tomato sauce on the English muffin, and they got to put cheese on the English muffin too. There are so many more fantastic adventures waiting for us with Mother Goose Time Curriculum so we have to but we will be back very soon.

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