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Inching Along

We are wrapping up our month of Bugs and Crawly Things with Mother Goose Time. This week we had a lot of fun with the Inchworm day which was day 19 in the Teacher Guide. The Activity we did was the My Inchworm Story activity and it worked on Social relationships and communication. We were encouraged to lay out all the Daily topic posters, but I didn't keep them all... oops! I did have all the invitation to create photos though so I decided to use those instead. We looked through the photos and discussed all the bugs and tried to remember what we had learned about them. Then we compared them and tried to find similarities and differences between them all.   




After we finished looking at the bug photos we used the storybook that came with our supplies earlier in the month and we went through the book and tried to point out all the bugs that we could remember. He was so proud to be able to name and point out most of the bugs on the pages.


The back page of the book was fun because it had a guide with all the bugs and their names on it. They took all the story piece bugs and matched them up with the same bugs on the page.

After matching the bugs in the book I had them come up with their own story about the bugs. They worked together to tell a story about an inchworm that was looking for a friend to play with. They gave the bugs personalities and some where nice and some were verging on rude, but in the end they all became friends and played together. Once they were finished with the story they arranged all the bugs on the story telling mat and put them on it according to where they would live in rea life.



After we finished with the story and the story pieces we watched an Inchworm video clip on YouTube. It was so much fun watching them move. My daughter loved them and wanted to make them into a pet. After this we were ready to start our invitation to create which used a picture of a little green inchworm as the inspiration photo and we were also provided with a little rectangle plate and some strips of green paper as the art materials. I added in some glue, scissors, crayons and markers. This Invitation to create worked on his fine motor skills, visual arts, and self concept.   




They each decided to make the plate into a leaf. My son drew an inchworm on his and my daughter decided to cut the little green strips into smaller green strips which she glued down to look like little inching inchworms. They came out great.

Bugs were so much fun, we will see you next month for Alphabet Island!



*Mother Goose Time has generously provided this curriculum to us in exchange for our stories and honest opinions*




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