The girls learned about pairs this week! They enjoyed a few great activities that helped them to strengthen this new concept. We played a really fun "Mommy & Me" matching game. Here I gave them each the baby animal cards all lined up and then they I asked them to make a pair by matching the babies with their mommies.
Another lesson we had about pairs that the girls both seemed to enjoy was during our Bilingual Book activity! Each month we get a handful of great bilingual resources in our Mother Goose Time curriculum box. They have sparked many conversations with L-Bug about both German and Italian. While we lived there my husband and I picked up a few phrases that just, sort of stuck! I have used them quite often with L-Bug and she has even said them to us at different times. These bilingual activities open their minds to the ideas of cultural differences. We typically pick one of the words from each month to focus on. For instance the word abeja or bee. When talking about bees sometimes I will sub the Spanish word abeja and the girls have begun to pick it up already. Some words are hard for them to pronounce, BUT the fact is that they hear it and they try! So... that was a little off track! Haha Just some great info I wanted to share :) Now onto our activity that involved finding pairs. As we read through and colored our bilingual books we were on another kind of search! A search for letter pairs. On my white board I had written a few words and then I showed the girls how to circle letter pairs. Then I had them looking for pairs on the pages.
I also wanted to share my newest little update to our circle time area. I haven't used this blue stand since I got our new wall calendar. But the other day while cleaning I pulled it out and realized it was the solution to one of my biggest frustrations! I have been trying to find a good way to store our monthly concepts where the kids could see them and where I could refer to them regularly. I moved "Mother Goose's Learning Nest" onto the blue stand, the I utilized the plastic slots to add all of our lovely concepts for the month! On the top row I have our vocabulary words. The girls knew 4/6 words when I but them up, but having them displayed here we have talked about them several times this past week and they are now remembering moth and wasp more easily! They may not be able to READ or WRITE the words, but seeing images and the words together help them to build their vocabularies! I also included our friends from around the world, our friendly bee and our shape on the other slots. Behind Mother Goose's nest are our letters as well as our concept builder cards which have our letters, numbers, shape and color on them!
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