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Literacy with Mother Goose Time

leslie May 1, 2018 0 Comments

This is my 100th post about our Mother Goose Time adventures!We have loved our Ocean Commotion unit from Mother Goose Time!Each month we receive 20 discovery bags about our unit, and each bag is filled with items to make art, crafts, games for math, and literary devices and games.Here are some of our favorite literary tools they send us each month.BOOKSWe receive 2 books each month. One is...

5 Tips for Raising a Reader

leslie April 17, 2018 0 Comments

Raising a reader is a daunting task.As a former language arts teacher, book lover, and Usborne book lady, here are my top tips toRaising a Reader!1- Expose your child to lots of books!Children are inquisitive. They ask a billion questions a day. One answer I have always tried to stray from is, "Because I said." Filling your shelves with fairy tales and classic stories is great,...

Preschool: Literacy Scavenger Hunt

leslie February 1, 2018 0 Comments

We finished our dinosaur unit today with a literacy activity that Mother Goose Time sends each month. It's called Word Puzzles. MGT sends some words with blanks for missing letters and using little word cards, the child recognizes which letter should go in the blank. How can you tie in dinosaurs into this activity?Using the Teacher Guide, MGT suggested to remind learners that as...

I Can Read: Creating Sentences

leslie November 28, 2017 0 Comments

My girl loves to read.If you decide to sit on the floor, she will find you, crawl into your lap and ask to read a book.Each month we get one of these I Can Read books from Mother Goose Time.I have been trying to find more ways to use it than just for reading, though.MGT sends arrows and rectangles with the sight words on it along with 6 pictures of real images of certain things discussed in the...

S is for Serpent

leslie November 23, 2017 0 Comments

We've been battling sickness around here...stuffy noses, hacking coughs, and constant snuggle time make for long days.However even during the struggle of these days, it is so nice to break open a Mother Goose Time bag and explore the new items that make learning so much fun.Snake day was just what both my girl and this momma needed, and it was perfect to tie in a lesson from our Experience God...

Make and Play: Taking Learning Home

leslie November 11, 2017 0 Comments

I am so impressed with the math skills my 3 year old is learning thanks to the help of Mother Goose Time. Last year, when Sweet Pea was 2, we usually skipped out on the Make and Play crafts that were in our unit kit. This year though, we are not skipping them!Here's why: 1. The Make and Play's can be great games to take home and reinforce concepts...like math! Last...

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...

Writing Her Name…All On Her Own!

leslie September 19, 2017 0 Comments

She's growing leaps and bounds yall. On Leg day during our Mother Goose Time unit on About My Body, Sweet Pea and I read the book Whose Knees are These? After reading, I asked her what she used her legs for, and recorded her responses in this short little video.I love that she said cooking. I know that her kitchen is right there, but we do cook a LOT together in 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...

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...