Little Miss Muffett

Little Miss Muffett

Act it out! This was so fun! The kids really enjoyed acting out this rhyme and it was so easy to do! All I needed was a stool, bowl and spoon!

Sequence the Nursery Rhyme - We used some sequence cards to help Brooke re-tell the story of Little Miss Muffett. Re-telling is a valuable auditory skill and using the cards helped her to remember. I asked her to re-tell each card and then to re-tell the whole nursery rhyme.

United States Puzzle

Another Puzzle As you know, I am not a fam of puzzles but this one was great! Here is out last puzzle. I helped get the outside pieces together and the kids did the entire middle all by themselves! Jake likes to glue to pieces together, frame them, and hang it on his wall.

/m/ and /o/

objective:
a. to recognize beginning sounds
b. to sort objects according to beginning sounds
points to remember:
1. make sure you review with your child the letter name and letter sound before they begin sorting.
2. use a fun container to hold the objects...today we used an Easter basket since it is close to Easter - it just makes it more fun for the kids
3. Write out the letters on paper for your child to sort...we use sandpaper letters.
Lesson:
1. Use your itsy-bitsy miniatures and gather objects beginning with 2 sounds. Today we did /m/ and /o/
2. One at a time, have your child pull out an object, say the name of the object, and put it under the correct letter.

3. Help your child as needed. Here is a video of Kate (Brooke was not interested in being videotaped so Kate offered to help)

Resurection Eggs

I use Resurrection Eggs to teach my children about Easter. We have had our about 3 years and are missing the spear (but found a sword to replace it). This is a great way to teach kids about Easter and for them to be able to use the objects to re-tell the story back to you. My set came with a book called Benjamin's Box. I read from the book (summarizing a little) as the kids open the eggs.

The kids will set out all the items from the eggs as I read.

Then use the items to re-tell me the Easter story. By re-telling the story using the objects, I know they understand.

Here are 2 great blogs that gives even more ideas for how to use your Resurection Eggs:

http://totallytots.blogspot.com/search/label/Easter http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/RaisingRockStarsEaster.html

Rest Time 2

Every afternoon is Rest Time at our house.
As I have shown before, we have 3 carpets for Rest Time activities. The carpets go into the closet after Rest Time and come out for Rest Time. Here are some more of our Rest Time activites.
To see an explanation of what we do, check out the previous blog post.
On the blue flower is an alphabet puzzle, the red cartpet has a princess castle with Princess dolls and the yellow carpet has magnetic princesses to dress up.....love us some Princesses!

Step on the letter

objective:
1. recite the alphabet correctly
Points to remember:
1. Brooke has always struggled with the alphabet and we work on it almost daily. For her, most of the letters all sound the same such as B, C, D, E, G, P, S, T, V, Z all have the /e/ sound.
2. It would be like me trying to learn 26 random sounds that only have very slight differences and remember them in order, so I am okay with her still continuing to struggle.
3. This activity makes you say the alphabet more slowly which helps her to hear to sounds more clearly.
Lesson:
1. Lay your foam letters on the floor.
2. Put them in alphabetical order. Have your child help as much as possible. Brooke is able to identify most of her letters.
3. We sing the alphabet song after we add every 3-4 letters. Just more repetition.
4. Once the letters are in order, have your child step on each letter as it is sung.

Modifications:
1. Use Puzzle Pieces or Flashcards for stepping too!
2. Here are a few sites we use to reinforce the alphabet song. Alphablocks Alphabet and Starfall

April Fool's Day Lunch

I loved making our April Fool's Lunch! I bought Teddy Grahams, Oreos and Rice Krispy Treats. I carefully opened the bags and replaced the snacks with carrots, sandwich and strawberries. Then using double-sided tape, closed the bags again.

Everyone also got some Fakin' and Eggs: eggs are made from white chocolate and a yellow m&m. the bacon is made from Tootsie Rolls and Carmels.