Category: My Little Journal

Preschool Rodeo Learning Activities

leslie March 9, 2019 1 Comment
Down here in Texas, it is Rodeo season. The Houston Live Stock Show and Rodeo starts at the end of February and goes through mid March.We actually have a rodeo in our community coming up the last weekend of March and I cant wait!In my opinion, the best part of the rodeo is "Mutton Bustin'" where preschoolers and early elementary kids ride on a sheep!  It's pretty amazing.So why am I...

Food Group Activities with Preschoolers

leslie February 9, 2019 4 Comments
What a week we have had!We started our new unit, Health and Fitness, from Mother Goose Time and have had a great time studying the 5 main food groups this week: Grains, Fruit, Vegetables, Protein, and Dairy.Here are some of our favorite activities we did this week.Grains DayMGT sent us new monthly manipulatives: shapes.We hid them in grains (rainbow rice) and dug out the pieces and matched them...

Creating Caterpillar Patterns

leslie October 28, 2018 0 Comments
I don't know about you, but it has been raining ALL month long here. However we still have tons of fun when we are stuck indoors thanks to our preschool curriculum: Mother Goose Time.  We've looked at all the parts of a tree including the trunk, roots, and branches, but on this particular day, we studied LEAVES.Our day began with the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.In...

Castles, Crowns, and Coloring, Oh My!

leslie June 14, 2018 0 Comments
This month is Vacation Bible School month.That means, as the VBS Director, my life is super crazy right now.  I am hoping to share a few tips on how to help with that in a future post, so if you are involved with your VBS please stay tuned to the blog. :)However, in all the chaos of creating things for the church, I am so thankful for our Mother Goose Time (preschool curriculum)...

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...

Preschool Astronomer

leslie March 8, 2018 0 Comments
Astronomer.That is what Avaleigh became this first week as we studied the SUN, the MOON, and STARS with our SPACE unit from Mother Goose Time.Our week started with studying STARS and constellations.MGT sent us these glow in the dark stars in a variety of sizes and Avaleigh had to match them to the correct size on the constellation.We then did a STEAM station of punching out circles to be stars...

Getting Ready to Travel with Mother Goose Time

leslie February 12, 2018 0 Comments
During our first week of It's a Small World unit with Mother Goose Time, we had a ton of fun preparing for a trip!First thing up: We need to pack a Suitcase.Instead of digging out our roller suitcases, I grabbed one of our bags and asked Avaleigh to pack it.  The first thing she threw in was her Beauty and the Beast Usborne book.She LOVES that story.Then she packed her baby blanket, all...

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...

Preschool Dinosaur Activities

leslie January 22, 2018 2 Comments
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...

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...