Yikes it has been WAY too long! We took a holiday vacation that got a little extended.... we did a little school here and there where we could fit it in, but traveling to see family and mama starting her new job at the church nursery got us a little off schedule. BUT we are ready to get back to school :) L-Bug was beyond excited when I told her that I had new school all set up and ready to go.
We started off talking about what a New Year means! We looked at L-Bug's 2015 Calendar she made in January last year. It had her foot print, height and weight. So we talked about how she grows a little bit every single day but we don't really realize it because the changes are so small. We weighed her and measured how tall she was and compared it to last year! Then we made a foot print to see how much bigger her feet have gotten :) She was so excited to see!!
Once we were done with the 2015 calendar I showed her the new 2016 calendar and told her this time we were going to do our handprint! She also got to write her name this time (which she definitely couldn't do last year). We sang the months of the year song and L-Bug danced around the room, I think she was really excited to hear our Mother Goose Time CD for Circle Time!
She knew right away what was coming next and grabbed her calendar to sit down for the days of the week! Over the past few weeks we haven't done circle time with school because most of our school was on the go in the car. Last month L-Bug really started singing along with songs, but she hadn't really ever done it before so I was so shocked when she started singing almost the entire Days of the Week song! We put our calendar day up and did our weather :)
January's theme is all about the Safari, but I was VERY excited that Mother Goose Time started Day 1 off with Travel and Passports :) Not only was I able to bust out the Passport we did last year with them but it gave the perfect way to add in our Little Passports Curriculum for this month!
​Here is L-Bug using her magnifying glass as she went through the Mother Goose Time passport we made last year. She was pretty little then so most of our MGT lessons were modified with the Little Goose Supplement or I did some simplifying on my own! I really liked doing this one because I got pictures from our travels and from our families travels and I was able to do the Mother Goose Time lesson of the places with pictures of people L-Bug knew! It was fun for her to look through it this year.
Next we took our new passports for this year and our Continent Cube. We rolled the cube and found that continent in our passport. L-Bug found the matching color crayon and colored her continent the same color as the one on the cube! She did have a little big of a hard time with the continents that had lots of smaller island around them because they looked similar to other ones in her book, but it was a good way to get her to really focus on the cube and the pictures in her book!
We also stamped the continents she has been to! She liked that :)
We used the continent cube again to find all of the continents on our map! She liked talking about the animals she saw on each of the continents and then informed me that she wants them all as her pets.... I asked her where we would put a lion and she said he could sleep in the garage!
I like asking L-Bug questions that make her think and challenge her a little bit, it tests her knowledge now and makes her focus on a specific thing when thinking about new possibilities! SO while we were still standing at the map I reminded her that each of those colored shapes we were pointing to were CONTINENTS and then I asked her what all of the blue stuff in the middle was. I shouldn't be, but I was pretty surprised when she told me it was the ocean! So then I asked her if she knew how we could get from one continent, like South America, to another, like Africa (as I pointed to them).
She didn't know. So I had her pull out our world globe ball and I had three of our Mother Goose Time manipulative ready to go! I had a bus, train and plane out (I sure wish we had a boat, but we didn't). I asked L-Bug if we could take a bus from South America to Africa... "sure" she said with a grin! Then I started driving the bus across South America and stopped at the ocean. I said "Uhoh... can a bus drive on the water in the ocean?" "Oh! No, no, no..." she said as she laughed. So then I grabbed another pieces and said "Ok how about the train? Can we take that to Africa?" She looked at the globe and then the train and said "No trains can't go in the ocean too." I smiled and said "You are right! What about the plane? What does a plane do?" She jumped up and said "Yeah planes fly, it can fly over the ocean!" I was so excited to see her so excited when that light bulb came on!
I asked her to fly us there and she picked up the plane and flew it over the ocean to Africa!
pretended it was St. Peter's Basilica in Rome since she has seen that one) and an Egyptian Pyramid! We set them up and used our Mother Goose Time manipulatives (buses, planes and trains) to go from one monument to the next.
It was a busy and full day but I was happy to see that our much needed vacation didn't mess L-Bug up at all. She was happy to jump back into school and I don't think she forgot anything! :)
Happy New Year Y'all!
0 Comments
|
Check Out My Teachers Pay Teachers Store for my Digital Products!Categories
All
Disclaimer: I am an affiliate blogger. In some cases I will make a commission from external links leading to purchases. Thank you for your support to my blog! Your purchases help this mama stay at home with the kiddos and continue doing what we love.
Proud supporter of Mother Goose Time curriculum!All the posts in this blog are from real life experiences. We've taken the activities and materials provided in the Mother Goose Time curriculum and modified it in different ways to fit our lifestyle. Enjoy the read!
Archives
December 2023
|
Everyday 365 Life