Kids in the Kitchen Activities

I love having my little sous chef in the kitchen!Mother Goose Time had some great "In the Kitchen" Activities this week from our Health and Fitness Unit.Here are some of our faves.(LOTS and lots of pictures... but that's not really anything new to you regular readers ;)   )Cleaning and Safety:"Wash your hands and say your prayers because Jesus and germs are everywhere!"Avaleigh...

Cookie Day Fun for Preschoolers

I don't know about you, but when I think of Christmas, one of the first things that comes to mind is cookies!  That smell of chocolate chip cookies fresh outta the oven... or the shapes of all the sugar cookies... or the rainbow colors of all the sprinkles... cookies are definitely a holiday tradition around here.As we were studying the Indoor Sights and Sounds this week with...

3 Shape Activities for Preschoolers

We have had lots of fun with shapes this month. This month Mother Goose Time sent us Tangram Shapes as our monthly manipulative along with tons of activities and games.  Many of these activities revolved around Friends and Feelings- our theme for this month.You can easily do these activities at home by cutting out simple shapes from card stock or construction paper.Here were our top 3...

Paul Bunyan Fun for Preschoolers

This past week we studied the Tall Tales of Paul Bunyan with ourMother Goose Time Fables and Folktales Unit.MGT did not disappoint in the activity department either. Here's just a few of the activities we did this week....Literary Activities:Each day we had a story in our bag complete with colored cardstock puppets to cut out and play with.  My girl's favorite was Bessie the Cow and...

Detectives Need Magnifying Glasses

Nature Detective.Our newest preschool theme, and I am smitten.Our newest Mother Goose Time box had this awesome magnifying glass, and it has made being a detective so much fun!My girl took the magnifying glass outside as soon as we took it out of the package.She went all around the driveway inspecting things.She found this bee sleeping on our zinnia! He didn't move at all for quite some...

Preschool Math: “Rocking” Out

We journeyed to Ayers Rock this week.Have you ever heard of it?  I hadn't until our Mother Goose Time curriculum introduced me to this stunning red rock in Australia.Using our monthly manipulatives, Avaleigh "rocked" out her math lesson on Ayers Rock day :)Check out this 20 second video and catch some highlights of our day!So much of math is understanding abstract concepts.In order to make...

Preschool Dinosaur Activities

Dinosaur Week!This past week we studied 6 different dinosaurs with our Dinosaur Dig unit from Mother Goose Time.  We studied: Tyrannosaurs Rex, Brontosaurus, Stegasours, Triceratops, Mussaurus, and Pterodactyl.Tyrannosaurs RexThe first dinosaur we studied was of course T-Rex.  This day we received her My Little Journal and for the first time she wrote her name all on her own without...

I Can Read: Creating Sentences

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...

Number Islands

At Alphabet Island, we do not only learn letters, we learn numbers too!I love the foam puzzle manipulatives we received this month!Pop out the numbers and put them in some water and now you have Number Islands!Mother Goose Time sent us a pocket cube a year ago, and we placed some numbers in there.  Sweet Pea threw the cube and then found the matching number and pulled that island out of the...

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

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...