New Circle Time set up

I finally settled on doing Mother Goose Time again this year. I might only do every other month, we’ll just have to see how it goes.
I got the circle time area set up. I am using the corner of our playroom for this.

The picture above shows the whole corner.
 
This is a close up of out weather, shape, alphabet and monthly poster set up. You can also see the alphabet strip at the bottom.

We also have a calendar, and the daily poster hanging as well as our dress up doll (that you dress for the weather). I offer Alligator a choice of shirts for him daily.
We have really enjoyed playing the CDs that comes with the kits. Here are the boys dancing (yes, Monkey has a gun…but at least he is dancing!)

Body themed snack

We are working on a Mother Goose Time unit of “My Amazing Body”
One of today’s activities was a recipe for a snack.
My oldest son was so excited.
We used bread, cheez-its, raisins, Ritz crackers and peanut butter.
The bread was the body, and we cut up a slice to use as arms and legs. We used peanut butter as our glue.

The head was a cracker. And the hands and feet were cheez-its. My husband and I used raisins for the faces. Monkey isn’t a big fan of raisins so he broke up the cheez-its and used those.

   
Not only did they turn out cute…they were yummy too!
 
Monkey’s thoughts: “We should make these for every snack!”

Camping Themed Preschool activities

Lately we have been doing activities from Mother Goose Times Camping theme. The boys have really enjoyed it.
We made backpacks out of paper bags.

     

We made camp dioramas.
 
We made racoons. Alligator loved feeding his, and Monkey and I played a game of guess which food the racoon ate. (picture of food came with the racoon)


We made crackling fire sticks (OK I made Alligators, but he had fun shaking it.)
 
Monkey enjoyed working on his Camping ABC book (Alligator is still obsessed with the alphabet so he loved reading his)

We also made and then practiced drawing guitars (they book had step by step directions, which Monkey enjoyed).

THe boys have made many tents over the last several weeks, and they even spent some time in a sleeping bag.
 

Tot School 9-26-10

Alligator is 19 months old.

This week Alligator and I had so much fun! We really got busy during our morning play times!

Mother Goose Time

Reading the interactive story…. He really liked the story, and he had fun with the animal pictures and the blocks.

We were supposed to tear the paper to give him spikey hair, but he had no interest. He did however practice finding the parts of the face.

He stacked 3 blocks on top of each other for the first time! It was so cool to watch him try. Doesn’t he look proud????? NOT!

He enjoyed putting the foam shapes onto the circles on the math mat. I was very impressed that he totally got the idea!

Here he is working on decorating the faces spinner thingy (don’t you love my technical terms….

Here is the finished product ( I used the gliiter, he had no interest…but I had fun!)

Time for Tots Kits.

Putting in and pulling out with the Jacks.

Very very beginning of sorting by color

Thinking about putting the puff balls into the ice tray.

Willing to put a few in…

Immediately dumping them out…

Trying to figure out the tongs…

Toys

Shape sorter. He really was able to get them in the correct holes occasionally. It was really neat to see!

Putting the pegs in the holes.

As you can see we had a fabulous week. To see what other are doing, click the button at the top.

Flour and Cinnamon fun!

Alligator had a great time with the flour and cinnamon provided in the MGT kit. We decided to play with it out on our front porch. I added scoops, a funnel, and giant popcicle sticks (Alligator added the empty stapler, which he just adores). To avoid ruined clothes he played in his diaper.

 

The mixture had a wonderful smell.

He played very calmly at first without making much mess at all.

Then he really got into it!

As you can see we had fun, and we are glad we did it outside!

Tot-School September 12

Alligator is 19 months.

To see what others are doing to Tot School this week, click the button above. Also please check out "best post of the week" at "No time for Flash Cards."

This week we got a little more into the groove of things, although we are still not in a good schedule. We spent a lot of time outside, as we have had some wonderfully mild weather. This is such a blessing.

Here is Alligator feeding ducks at the park with Daddy.

We also spent a lot of time at our park. Alex and I are going almost every morning after we take Monkey to school. It is great fun, but definitely feels weird to go without Monkey.

Here he is showing off his new Halloween pjs. He really looks good in black!

MOTHER GOOSE TIME

We continued with our MTG this week. Alligator made a puppet of Johnny Appleseed. I helped him put the pieces together, and he took care of the coloring. He really colors with great intent.

He thought it was fantastic. He couldn’t stop laughing when it was all put together. He also would turn it around for the camera, so this is the best we got.

We worked with the letter M this week. I thought MGT does a neat job of introducing the children at this age to the letter. We taped the “hands-on M” to the back of the paper, so he could color over it to make the impression. I helped a little, so you could see the letter.

Alligator explored the words moon and mouse and pointed to all the pictures on the alphabet cards. He now points and says “look” or “that”. So that was exciting.

He liked playing with Monkey’s weather sticks as well. He thought they were great fun.

Thanks for reading. The coming week will be a bit slower as my parent's are in town. So as Carissa from 1+1+1=1 says we’ll get in a lot of “life school”.