The Alphabet House - Apartments

Today’s topic was all about apartments. We looked at some pictures of apartments and talked a little bit about them.

Our first activity we did today was our alphabet apartment game. We started out with our little game board with apartment numbers (letters) and some game pieces. Miss M seemed to really like this game even though she wasn’t really getting that she was supposed to be matching the game pieces to the matching colors on the game board. She did match some of them correctly though!

 

Next we played stacking floors. I sat down with the wee one and asked her to help me build apartments with 5 floors. Stacking blocks is one of the things we’ve been working with her on with early intervention and OT so I was really please to see her stacking her blocks up to 6 high now and she was even trying to go 7 high but then they’d all fall down. She had a lot of fun with this activity.

We sat down to read our new Goldilocks book. Miss M got a teddy bear to sit and read the story with too. We really enjoyed this story. It was very cute. It’s a fun retelling of the classic Goldilocks. In this story, Goldilocks loses her baby bear in her messy room. She gets very sad that she can’t find him and when she falls asleep, she has a dream about going to try to find him. Miss M really liked this story and it kept her attention the whole time.

We also worked on our Experience God lesson. This month we’re learning about the story of My Father’s House.

 

These are the cards that talk about this month’s bible story that we’re learning.

Miss M really liked looking at these.  

This is the bible verse we are learning about.
 

Here’s our lesson plan book that goes along with the topic.

 

Here’s a couple of the lessons in our lesson plan book that we worked on.
 

The last thing we worked on today was the coloring sheet for this story and we made a heaven bracelet.
 



The Alphabet House - Houses

Today we started our first day of our Mother Goose Time curriculum “The Alphabet House”. Today’s lesson was about houses. We started off with circle time.

 

Miss M got super excited when I brought out our circle time board. We talked about the calendar and the weather. She was also really interested in the alphabet flip strip. She kept almost ripping it down though.

I helped her write her name on her nametag and then she decided she wanted to color on it too.

Then we talked a little about houses. I got out my tablet and we looked at some pictures of houses. Then instead of painting, I decided to let Miss M use crayons to color on her house because she LOVES coloring. And tbh I forgot to get paints (dangit!).

After coloring her house for a bit, I tried to have us go to our next activity but she wanted nothing to do with that! She freaked out because she wanted to keep coloring, so I got out a coloring book and let her color for a while.

 

We looked at this month’s theme poster. We tried finding the things that were in the magnifying glasses.

The last activity we did was we made houses with blocks. She loved this one too! Well, she wasn’t really interested in trying to make houses at first. She was more interested in dumping/taking the blocks out of the tray and then putting them in for a while. But then she got into stacking them into houses.

I think Miss M had a lot of fun with her first day of Mother Goose Time and "The Alphabet House" :)
  

What's In the Box? - "The Alphabet House"

Mother Goose Time’s June curriculum is called “The Alphabet House”. We will be reviewing the alphabet and exploring the many places that people and animals call home. Even though we’re just starting out this month, I’m sure Miss M will still love everything :)

Here is a picture of the theme web for this month. It shows the different subjects that will be covered each week/day and how they relate to the main theme.

 

Each month in your teacher’s tool bag you’ll receive a Teacher Guide and a Planning Journal. In addition to these, I’ve added the Little Goose supplement to our curriculum that we receive each month. It will help me adjust the activities for my 2 year old and make it easier for her to participate.

Also included is a Skills Overview chart and Gathering List. The chart shows all the different skills that the children will be performing with all the different activities. The gathering list is great too. It shows all the supplies that will be needed for the month.

Each month you’ll receive a new CD with songs that go along with the month’s theme.

You’ll get a new themed calendar for the month too.

Here’s our circle time basics items all set up. You’ll get new letters, numbers, shapes, colors, and friendly behavior feather.

 

You’ll also be provided with a monthly family newsletter that you can give to parents of your kiddos. It shows some of the things that the kids will be learning as well as suggestions of books to read and family activities. I thought this was really neat!



There’s also 20 premade packets stuffed with pretty much everything you’ll need as well as bonus days. This month we have Father’s Day as our bonus day.

You’ll receive a new storytime book each month. This month we’ll be reading a fun retelling of the classic Goldilocks. It’s very cute J

 

You’ll get a new My Little Journal each month too. This month kids will be reviewing letters, numbers, and colors.

You’ll also get a new I Can Read book. In it, they’ll practice the month’s sight words and they’re displayed on the back of the book as well. We have our sight words displayed with our circle time display.

Games!! Little ones get to play lots of different and fun games to help with their learning as well. Here are some of the games that we will be playing this month.

Here’s an example of one day’s supplies and activities. This is Day 1. There are so much more great things included with this month’s curriculum! In addition to all these, children will:

·         Experience over 125 activities

·         Create 20 of their own projects in Art, Math, and Literacy

·         Build 33 skills over 7 domains

Come join us in all the fun! Next month’s theme will be "Nature Detectives".
 

Mother Goose Time Welcome Kit

One of the things that was included with our Mother Goose Time curriculum was a Welcome Kit. I got really excited going through all these goodies and thinking of ways to display everything.

 

This is the flyer that came with the Welcome Kit. It shows everything that’s included.



This is our circle time display that I made using a tri-fold foam board. It was really fun to put together.

Included in the display is:

·         Clothesline – We’ll collect a new shape each month and place it here.

·         Weather basket – Holds our weather pieces that will be used during circle time.

·         Birdhouse – Will help us learn about colors and friendly behaviors. Each month, we’ll collect a color bird and a feather that will have a friendly behavior word on it.

·         Number line – Along the bottom of the display is a number line that will help us learn about numbers and we’ll be learning at least 2 numbers each month.

·         Another part to the main circle time display is the flower pot where we’ll learn about letters and sight words.

The world map is where we’ll learn about the world and collect a new country flag and sticker each month. We’ll experience diverse cultures through recipes, games and activities.

There’s also little helper tags that you can set up to help kiddos learn how to be responsible and contribute to the community through daily jobs. There’s also a “Little Helper” song on the Circle Time CD to go along with this.

 

Here’s how I set up our alphabet flip strip. Each shows an uppercase and lower case of each letter in the alphabet and when you lift up the flap, it shows a photo that helps form letter-sound connections.

This is the Circle Time CD. It’s a very fun addition to the curriculum. Included are specially designed Circle Time songs for certain group activities and transitions as well as classic children’s songs. The classic songs offer two variations – one is sung with lyrics and the other is an instrumental version.

Included with the Welcome Kit are labels for all 12 months of the year. They go with the monthly themed calendars and calendar pieces that are found in each monthly kit.

Also included in the Welcome Kit are an ASL poster, investigation station signs, and My Scrapbook.

I’m very happy with everything that’s included with the Welcome Kit. Everything is very well made and will last a long time. Well I’m hoping they will anyways since my 2 year old isn’t very nice with things most of the time ;)

We will start talking about our experiences with Mother Goose Time starting in June. We will be learning about “The Alphabet House”.