I'm so excited to announce that I'll be hosting a giveaways sponsored by Mother Goose Time! Welcome to a Manipulatives Monday Giveaway :) You can find ways to enter the giveaway near the bottom of this post AND check out some other bloggers participating in the giveaway as well.
Manipulatives are a VERY important part of our daily activities. We use them for so many different activities: counting, identifying color, shape, size, playing with them in games, pattern making, art, fine motor skills and SO MUCH MORE!
Here is a fun way that we incorporated manipulatives that I've collected from past months into our Science Activity last week! The two type of stacking toys you see here are both from past Mother Goose Time curriculum boxes. I added them to our molecule building activity, along with some play dough and pipe cleaners....
Here the kiddos selected the molecule cards as a template for building. Then they chose which tools they wanted to use. They had fun exploring the different items available and pretending they were creating new molecules! We talked about the colors, shapes and counted as we built.
Some kiddos tried combining the different materials to see if they would fit together.
I love the bright colors of these stacking shapes. The size is perfect for little hands to manipulate, turn and push together! The shapes are great to use for sorting into categories as well.
Since we read about Alfred Nobel in our story book last week the kids were excited to receive Nobel Prizes today for their incredible molecule structures! :) Check out MissC showing me her excited face for winning a prize! She's been prating that one!!
The stacking blocks also have wonderful bright colors! What I like most about these is that there are multiple holes which means many different options for building! Here L-Bug was experimenting with turning the peg so that she could shape her molecule like the one she saw in our daily topic poster!
The size is perfect for working on those fine motor skills!
Of course the play dough was also a favorite! Who doesn't love rolling squishy play dough into balls! We cut some of the pipe cleaners into pieces so they could use them to build their molecules.
These molecule cards were actually a part of a Mother Goose Time matching game. I love it when I can get more use out of materials! The kids really liked following the cards to count the molecules and try to build one that matched!
This is just a tiny snippet of how easy it is to take manipulatives and use them as part of the learning process! Ever since I started using Mother Goose Time curriculum two years ago our collection has grown so much. The kids love it when we pull out the manipulatives bins :)
How cool is it that Mother Goose Time is sponsoring this giveaway so each blogger can have one winner randomly selected! Please note for entries into the giveaway hosted on my blog are only available to those who are in the United States. Thank you!
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Recently Mother Goose Time hosted a photo contest featuring our newest process based art projects. I have LOVED these fun art projects that are all about letting the kiddos use their imagination and create something unique to them! This week my kiddos created snowflakes with just a few simple materials and a whole lot of giggles, exploring and imagination. The Invitation to create came with coffee filters, glitter, and pipettes. I just added some water and paint, paperplates to keep the mess up. After they were dry we added ribbons so they could be hung on a Christmas tree or in the window. The kids were brainstorming all the different places our snowflakes could go. We foled the coffee filters a few times and then cut pieces out of them to make fun snow flake patterns! The kids have all been working hard on their cutting skills and I was very excited to see how many of them were able to use their fine motor skill to make small cuts. While everyone was working on their cutting we brainstormed about how the other materials could be used. We had watery-paint, glitter and pipettes. After the cutting was done and we all admired the pretty designs the kids busted into the materials and explored ways to use them. One reason I LOVE this open ended, process based art is because the kids get to explore and learn. There isn't a desired end goal to follow or an exact model to try and replicate. Just and idea/theme, tools and their imaginations! KK realized pretty quick that the glitter wasn't going to stick on it's own, our visitor realized after squeezing a little to hard that too much paint made it soggy and L-Bug figured out that if she picked up her wet coffee fliter the paint dripped down the sides of it. Check out more Invitation To Create Projects by Mother Goose time by using the #invitationtocreatephotocontest on Facebook, Twitter on Instagram! And post your photo's for a chance to win a month of Mother Goose Time curriculum! From the Mother Goose Time Facebook Page: "There's still time to enter the #InvitationToCreatePhotoContest! The competition is stiff - one post already has 140 likes! Here's how it works: find your favorite picture demonstrating the creative problem solving and deep learning of process-based preschool art. Share to either Facebook, Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag #InvitationToCreatePhotoContest. IMPORTANT: remember to make your post "public" so we can find it and tally your likes! P.S. We're absolutely loving all of the creativity so far."
This month Mother Goose Time accidentally shipped me an extra month's worth of curriculum! So I chatted with the my Blog coordinator and she said because shipping it back would be pricey I can do a local blog giveaway instead! So I'm going to share with you all of the awesome materials that come in the curriculum kit and do a drawing Sunday evening for one lucky winner :) To be entered please head over to https://www.facebook.com/KiddieKornerKare/?fref=ts and hit like! Then comment below with what you like the most about the curriculum. The kit contains enough materials for six kids to paricpate! For those who are new to the way the Mother Goose Time curriculum is set up let me give you a quick run down! The entire month comes packaged in a giant box. Each month we receieve a different thematic study. Under that theme each week is narrowed down into it's own category. Finally each day has a specific topic related to the week's category! One of my favorite things about the curriculum is how easy everything is to use. Each day is seperated into it's own bag. To prep all you need to do is open the bag, review the teachers guide and gather any of the additional suggested items listed in the guide. Sometimes there is some items that need to be pre-cut, or prepped, but it never takes me more than a few hours to prepare the ENTIRE month :) It's super simple to follow. Our December theme is Winter in the Woods! The first bags to grab and check out are the Teacher Tool Bag, the Circle Time Bag and for December the Santa's Workshop Bag. These bags contain the Teachers Guide, Planning Journal, Calendar, etc. Here is all the goodies hiding inside the Teacher's Tool bag and the Circle Time bag. Each month we focus on a new set of letters, numbers, a shape and a character trait. So you'll see the pieces for those below. The kit also comes with a custom CD full of fun kids music based on the theme. There are also two manipulatives in the kit (counting bears-left and stacking blocks-right). These toys are used throughout the month in the different activities. And again in the middle you see some hands on letter cookie cutters and a shape stamp! So fun :) So many awesome materials and activites come in the curriculum. Here is a snap chot of the different art projects for the whole month. Another fun thing to mention is the Santa's Workshop included in this months box! It includes invitations, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas Story with story telling pieces, a Snack idea, Santa Spoon Puppets, Santa's Beard Game and a Reindeer Training Game. Lots of fun to do with your little's as a group OR to use during an open house and invite the parents to participate. Winning the curriculum will not only mean that you receive the box of curriculum but a code to get access to the website for the month where you can download any additional resources for December that you would like!
So one of my favorite "extra's" or "add-ons" that we get from Mother Goose Time is the Experience God Curriculum. If you have seen my other posts about homeschool, I like time saving... I like utilizing programs that are easy to follow! With me opening my own Child Care Home time saving and easy to follow lessons are going to be VERY important. We use the Experience God Pack as our daily Bible Study with my daughter. She loves the stories and activities! I LOVE that she is learning about God <3
Above is a picture of the entire Teacher's Pack laid out! It comes with several great tools whether you want to do a simple at-home Bible Study with your kids or whether you plan to do an entire Sunday School lesson! The pack includes: 1 Teacher's Guide, 4 Story Cards and 1 Bible Verse Poster.
Check out this video with more info!
There it is! So how do we do this at home? Usually I have the Teacher's Guide and Children's Pack right next to my Keirug in the kitchen. And each week I also prep the activities that we are going to do ahead of time. So if I need ABC cards I find some in my stock pile of alphabet cards and add them to the bag. This way right at breakfast I grab the bag and sit down!
We pray for our breakfast and for the lesson we are about to read, then I open up the Teacher's Guide and turn to the day we are at. We read the monthly Bible Verse from the verse poster and we talk about the question for the day. Example: "Where does our food come from". We brainstorm about the animals and plants that our food comes from. We work through the activity as we eat breakfast, or if it's a really interactive activity then I skip it and continue with the rest of the routine (we do the activity after we are finished eating). Next we move into the Explain portion of the lesson, example: "God created the Earth to grow lots of different kinds of food for us. The animals and plants that we talked about, He made ALL of them! That's why we pray and THANK HIM for our meals." Then we usually read the Bible Verse of the week. If we still haven't finished breakfast I put on our Truth Tunes CD (quietly) so we can listen to it while we finish up and talk. The art activities from the Child's Pack are included as part of the lessons in the Teacher's Guide so we usually do those after we have finished eating. I have everything we need ready to go and after we clear the table we continue talking about our lessons and do the activity. In the Teacher's Guide there are SIX days planned for you. But there are seven days in a week.... SO usually Sunday's we do our "Take Home" Sheets. First I read our story for the month using the Story Cards from the Teacher's Pack. Then we do the activity on the sheet. Usually these get brought with us to Church that morning where L-Bug plays with her activity or colors the page (if we haven't already cut it up) before the kids are released for Children's Church. It is nice to have something quite for her to do until then. Thanks for reading about one of our favorite activity packs! If you want to win a "God Cares About My Health" Child's Pack be sure to enter to win :)
I'm so excited to be joining up with the other Mother Goose Time Bloggers to take part in a fun Blog Hop Book Giveaway sponsored by Mother Goose Time. Each of us were given the task to share some great books with our readers for a fun giveaway! All of these books are published by Experience Early Learning exclusively for Mother Goose Time and until recently they were only available with the purchase of the monthly curriculum.
The first book I've chosen for the raffle is one of L-Bug's favorites and the first book we got with our curriculum. Jurassic Jam is a paperback that starts off in a Jurassic jungle where dinosaurs are getting ready for a night of music and fun! It gets your kids up and moving as they sing dance and swing along with the different dinosaurs musicians and their instruments! We would pull out the music toy box and let her make some noise while I read the book, she'd try to imitate instrument I said.
This next book is a fun book about different animals and the different ways they move! A great way to get your little ones moving. Join these cuddly babies in Baby Animals Learn and Play! Watch the turtle crawl, hide with the fox and climb with the bears. See how many of these different movements your young toddler knows how to do on their own.
The last book for the giveaway is called Waiter! Waiter! A fun book filled with all kinds of learning experiences for toddlers. Teaching kids manners can be a feat for any parent, but the more fun it is the happier they'll be to do it!
Going out to dinner with family or friends? Bring the book along for your little one as a fun reminder about the manners they are learning and how to use them! Now that you've checked out the books don't forget to submit your entries! Thanks for reading and good luck ;)Be sure to HOP on on over to these other bloggers giveaways for some books to check out some other book options and to maximize your chances of winning.
The giveaway will be open from 23 March to 30 March. Prizes will be fulfilled by Mother Goose Time, NOT by this blog owner. You must be 18 years or older to participate and a resident of the USA or Canada. Void where prohibited by law.
**UPDATE! Now that the giveaway is over if you didn't win but you still would like to purchase these books to have at home follow these links to purchase them on Amazon.
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