To say the kids are loving art this month is an understatement! They are Adoring all the different activities we have been doing. For this younger group I have art is where I see the most engagement. The kids love talking while they work (at least those who can talk). I have a captive audience to talk to as well! I'll tell a story or ask simple questions related to the project. Here is one activity the kids had a blast with! Puppy shakers. The kids loved exploring how to make noise with these before we started the project. I had horns, microphones, drums and finally shakers! The kids loved painting and exploring the different materials I set out for them to paint with. The invitation to create has been fun because it has inspired me to step out of my normal box of clean, tidy art and give the kids things like sponges and forks to explore painting with. Not exactly art related but I had to mention another one of our favorites from this month: the puzzle! It matches the storybook for the month. It is hard cardboard and while it was a little difficult for some of the younger ones it really only took a little bit of verbal coaching from me for most of them to figure out where pieces would go. I noticed after 2-4 pieces were in they started figuring out most of the picture on their own from there! FUN :) I think this is an awesome new addition that Mother Goose Time has incorporated into the curriculum. I have a specific area where I have two puzzles out on a shelf and every 2-3 weeks I rotate a new puzzle in for the kids to explore. It's fun to watch them figure it out for the first time.
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This week I was inspired by our new set of manipulatives from the Mother Goose Time curriculum kit. These first few images you see the kids using the shapes mat and the magnetic manipulatives on our circle time board. They LOVED this activity and were crowded around the board for quite a while! I was shocked at how interested they were and how long they continued to stay engaged. So I made a shopping list to create a new interactive manipulatives board! I used the same pan that I made the Circle Time Board from. I got a new pattern of contact paper and when I hung the board up I used hooks at the top to hang buckets from. These are going to make it easy to change out what manipulatives I have available each month! I have a few ideas about creating different texture materials for the board as well. I just have to find the right supplies to execute the idea! I also have some magnetic strips that I plan on using to make it possible to use them on the board. For example I have a 6X6 foam puzzle I could attach the magnetic strips to and we can have a puzzle on the wall. I may also put magnetic strips on our words, letters and numbers from MGT so I can put them on the board here!
Exciting! Thank you Mother Goose Time for the fun magnetic manipulatives and the inspiration! I know, I know... I've been majorly bragging on Mother Goose Time curriculum these past few posts. BUT I am just so excited with the 2016/17 enhancements and additions! I had to share this awesome new Assessment System that Mother Goose Time has launched for this year. Here are mine! It took me about 15 minutes to put all eight together :) Everything (except the binders and the sheet protectors) came in the Mother Goose Time curriculum! Here is a micro-training with the info on how to set up and use the assessment system!
This week we started a new computer learning game with L-Bug, she LOVES it! At first she had a little bit of a hard time learning how to work the computer, but as soon as she figured that out... She took off! She already learned six new letters in two days 😍 I got an email saying that anyone who signs up with my referral link will get four weeks free. It includes both the Reading Eggs and Math Seeds programs 😊 Enjoy!
In love with the new art process and the Mother Goose Time activities for this year. I have a younger group of twos, so sometimes it is a little difficult. However, the I find that the kids enjoy all the projects and when something is a little more challenging I find that the kids do best when I do the project too. They follow along and observe what I do and they do it too! Check out these fun DIY play props we did this week! On this day we were learning about mommies and daddies! I actually combined two seperate days from the curriculum. The prompt for this was picnic theme with mom. Instead I turned it into how can we be helpers for mommy and daddy. Our mommies and daddies go to the grocery store and sometimes we get to go too! We can be big helpers while we shop. Another DIY activity we did this week was making glasses and pretending to be grandmas and grandpas! The kids LOVED pretending to sing and read to their "grand-babies" <3 And here is an Invitation to create activity we did! I loved the idea of putting all the materials out at once for the kiddos to explore. Some wanted to follow along with me and watched as I did different steps. Others wanted to explore on their own! So yeah! We are really enjoying the new art actives over here at Kiddie Korner :)
AND we still love some of the more classic activities. The kids LOVE doing our poster search every month. I'm actually searching for an idea on how to hang the magnifying glasses on (or near) the board so the kids can play with them all month long! Any ideas? Seriously, September is one of my favorite months of the year! It's the start of my favorite season: FALL. It's when Starbucks brings back PSL {Pumpkin Spice Latte}. It's when the trees finally start to change colors (well if you have trees that is)! It's the start of school... and it's when Mother Goose Time sends us our VERY FIRST curriculum box for the school year :) Every year our September boxes come with a "Getting Started" bag with a new room set up. Usually I take the pieces as additions to much of what I already have because I'm a curriculum hoarder... BUT it's nice for when my display has gotten trashed and needs a face lift. AND we also get the low-down on what is NEW for this year. Well I'm gonna share all the AMAZING new materials your kiddos are going to be using this year! First! My absolute favorite addition so far, our new stamp collections! Oi-vey I am in love with these little sets. Each month we will get a new shape stamp (so by the end of the year we will have a full set of 12) and we also get an assortment of stamps to go with our thematic study. This month is all about "My Family and Me" so we got these adorable mom, dad, bother, sister and baby stamps! To stinking cute. The kids went stamp crazy :) The size is perfect because the little hands are able to grip them easily and the pictures on the top helped them quickly identify what they were looking for. The stamps are great because we will be able to use them in lots of ways, with ink, in play dough, we can try with glue, paint, etc! Experimenting with the many uses of these new tools will be fun. Each month we learn a new set of letters. Last school year we received letter flags and miniature letter cards. I love my letter flags and they all hang on my ABC tree :) These awesome new large alphabet cards are the size of a full sheet of paper. I laminate them to help them stay more durable. We use erasable markers or our fingers to trace the letters. Now, these new set of tools are the ABC cut outs. These pieces are awesome because they are three dimensional and can be used so many different ways. We can use them alone to review the alphabet, we can use them in play dough, paint, etc. I think after we get our full set I may have to make ABC cookies with them :P I am really excited about this change! Every month last year we received a new color paint brush, while these are cute I learned very quickly that it was hard to make them durable because you had to attach the color piece to the stick. I am so excited that Mother Goose Time brought back our color wands! I remember these from a few years ago and the kiddos LOVE them. To make them last longer I fold the wand in half and then laminate it before attaching the ribbon. I am so glad we are keeping our awesome books! I love my collection of books Mother Goose Time has created. The kids love the pictures AND the stories! The books vary each month to go along with the themes and they also vary in difficulty. This little basket is perfect to keep them stored neatly. One piece I have had the most difficulty with each year was our action and concept cubes. In fact, I rarely used them because they just got trashed before each child had a turn. They were always a battle. I am so excited about the new interchangeable cube! It's a soft giant cube with clear pockets. It makes it easy to change the sides for activities AND for the different games! I haven't gotten a chance to use it yet this month, but I know the kids are going to be excited we get to use our cube! Some really fun new materials that I get to utilize as a teacher revolves primarily around art! The invitation to create prompts a more process-based art experience. Each month there are art supplies and discussion prompts to do while the children work through the activity. Mother Goose Time has also added some really fun make & play cards where the kids get to do DIY projects and then use them in imaginative play. Headbands, instruments, puppets, etc are all a part of the fun :) Every month fun manipulatives have always come included in our kit! This month I am so excited about these fun magnetic ones. I am not sure if this is going to be what we receive every month, but they sure are cute! I have been wanting to add a manipulation board in my infant "safe" area. I was thinking of something similar to my circle time board. Something magnetic that I can mix up the materials weekly! What do you think? Some other fun changes are counting fish instead of the counting tree, little character goslings to teach about character traits and fun shape clouds for our circle time board. Get a little more detail about all the new tools from the Mother Goose Time Blog Post!
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