Category: Favorite books

An Upside Down Day: Understanding Sloths

leslie November 27, 2017 0 Comments
We are wrapping up our Rain forest Adventure unit from Mother Goose Time this week.Today we studied sloths.Our MGT starts the same everyday:Calendar (practicing counting to 30!)Day of the week word matchingWeatherTopic Poster (sloth)Find the topic in our theme poster (if applicable)Read the book of the dayToday's book is by Eric Carle:It didn't take Sweet Pea long to start reciting with me some...

I Can Read: Interactive Sight Words

leslie October 24, 2017 1 Comment
Yall, Sweet Pea is getting into words and language so much more lately!It's like an explosion has happened, and I am so excited to be able to witness and take part in this journey with her.We love our I Can Read books from Mother Goose Time. In the past, she has always considered this book "a game" as she uses the sight word arrows to point to the matching words in the book.  I, on the...

Creating a Preschool Library at Home

leslie September 1, 2017 0 Comments
Books, books, books!  I absolutely LOVE books.  One of the main things I want to cultivate in Sweet Pea is a love of reading, and to do that, I started reading to her out of the womb.  However, now that she's 3, I am a thinking more about what exactly am I reading to her, which brought some big questions on my mind.How do I find good books for her right now?   How do I...

Superhero Study: Speed

leslie August 27, 2017 0 Comments
Superheroes can be known for a lot of things: strength, speed, invisibility, and so forth. Today with our Superhero Unit from Mother Goose Time we studied the quality of SPEED.However, my girl is a cautious and quiet observer... she is definitely not known for her speed.Our first activity was supposed to be about how fast the child could match the letters, but we accommodated it to...

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

leslie June 30, 2017 0 Comments
Welcome to Coconut Tree Day on Alphabet Island! Since we live in the middle of the forest and no where near the beach, Sweet Pea haslearned tons of new things this month that she never experiences.  Today it was Coconut Trees.She is *nuts* (I know I'm corny) about these daily topic posters.I love how they are actual photographs of the real image.  After studying it, Sweet Pea...

Science Discovery: Rainy Day Slime

leslie May 30, 2017 0 Comments
Each month I check out a huge batch of books from our local library that goes along with our Mother Goose Time monthly theme... this month happened to be BUGS.Rainy Day Slug was one of the books I found this month that has been constantly read!  The slug explores the inside of a home leaving a nice slimy white trail behind him that Sweet Pea traces with her fingers.  When I...

Building a Reading Nest

leslie April 5, 2017 0 Comments
The month of April we are studying Birds and Eggs. I have to admit, when I first heard the name of the unit, I thought it wouldn't be that much fun, but boy was I wrong.It's only Day 1 and Sweet Pea is LOVING IT!  Maybe it's the fact that her vocabulary is blowing up, or that she's been much better playing by herself, but whatever it is, she is absolutely loving this theme!The...

Creating Alligator Skin

leslie March 24, 2017 0 Comments
We are still hanging out at the pond and having so much fun.  I am definitely behind in my blogging, but I have been having so much fun with my girl.  Today during our Mother Goose Time (MGT), I gave her a choice between studying fish, ducks, or alligators.  She chose the ALLIGATOR and today Sweet Pea created a picture of ALLIGATOR SKIN!I can not recommend Mother Goose Time highly...

Tot School: Valentine’s Day

leslie February 20, 2017 0 Comments
Valentine's Day is such a fun day to celebrate with kids!My husband and I don't celebrate Valentine's Day at all, which is fine by me;however, I do want Sweet Pea to know what the day is about and why.I still want to make it special for her, but I didn't want to spend money. My desire was to spend some really good quality time talking and making things special for our Love day.Mother Goose Time...

Tot School: Interactive Reading

leslie January 25, 2017 0 Comments
My girl is in love with books.It goes with her quiet, contemplative, cautious personality I think.She loves to sit in laps, look at pictures, tell you about them, and snuggle with whoever she is sitting with... mostly it's me. <3 Mother Goose Time sends us a NEW BOOK each month with our monthly kit.Naturally with this month revolving around the theme of baby animals, we received a book...