This "puzzle" has been used so many times through out this month! The kids seriously love it :) It is a picture of all the different community helpers and they are all missing their hats and pants. When the kiddos first saw this we could barely get through me explaining how to do the puzzle because all the kids were laughing and giggling that no one had pants on! But after they moved past that they were excited to go on a letter hunt with me to find each worker's letter match! It was KK who noticed the letter first in the doctors hand. Then everyone was excited to search for the doctors pants with the letter 'D'. This simple activity is not only building letter recognition but it's helping these younger two's work on their fine-motor skills! And of course it's fun :) I always love the bright colors and images from our Mother Goose Time curriculum materials!
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The kids have had a blast this month learning all about the people who live and work in our community! I think one of their favorite days was chef day. They love anything that has to do with imaginative play and they were excited to wear chef hats, go grocery shopping and cook up some tasty meals :) I loved these little grocery lists that came in our chef day bag from Mother Goose Time. I cut them out and laminated them so they can be reused with erasable markers! The kid used their shopping baskets to go on a scavenger hunt finding foods that were on their list throughout our room! Sometimes they were toy kitchen foods, other times we searched for materials that were the same color to pretend it was the item we needed! We talked about healthy foods and I was surprised L-Bug even remembered some of our food groups that we talked about a few months back in our Food and Fitness module! The kids had a blast with this imaginative game and after we were finished finding all of the ingredients we got to work in the kitchen and made up some delicious snacks!
I can't believe Thanksgiving is almost here! Fall and Winter are my two favorite seasons. While talking to the kids at the beginning of November I was telling them about the Holidays. 2 Year olds really don't know much about the holidays we celebrate and I'm sure they remember very little about the ones they've celebrated the year before... So I was explaining that Thanksgiving is a time for us to think about the things we are Thankful for! I was excited to find this turkey poster in my November Mother Goose Time kit and I knew right away I wanted to incorporate the parents into some fun. I laminate and hung the turkey poster on the wall right next to the front door. I cut out leaf shapes and put them at my sign in/out board. I put up a note asking the parents to think about things they are thankful for and to have their kids help them come up with some stuff. Then I had them stick them to Mr. Thankful Turkey! The kids love putting the leafs on the wall and it gives them a way to see what their parents are thankful for and to learn how to be thankful! It really is a super simple activity and during the day if the kids happen to say something they are thankful for I write it down and have someone put it on the board for me!
Teaching toddlers how to identify their names! I love our name tags that come every month in our Mother Goose Time curriculum, they are always so cute and coordinate with the new theme. I used the name tags in a little game this week! The kids really enjoyed it too :) First I put all of the name tags in the middle so see who could ALREADY find their names without any help or clues. I was so proud of KK because she went straight for it! Then I helped all of the other children find their names by giving them some clues "find the letter B, that's what your name starts with"! After everyone had their name in front of them I went letter by letter and showed each of them how their name is spelt. Then we flipped the name tags over and mixed them all! I put them back in the middle and turned them over to see who could find their name again! They loved searching around for their name and got excited when they found it! They wanted to do it again, so we spelled their names again and then shuffled them up one more time for them to find. After they all had their name tags back I got out my favorite little pencils and helped each of the kiddos trace their names. Really at this age it isn't about if they trace right, it's about teaching them how to grip the pencil and the repetition of hearing their name spelt and seeing it in front of them. As they worked I would ask them ago the letters in their name. "Can you show me where the first letter of your name is? What letter does your name start with?" or "Let' spell your name together!" Then having them point to each letter as we said them together.
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