Swatting Mosquitoes!

We are down on the river for our last week of Camping with Mother Goose Time! Today we learned about everyone's favorite camping critter... the Mosquito!! Yeah, we don't much care for them much either, but we did have a lot of fun learning about them today. We started off by making a Swatter. Mother Goose Time provided the fly swatter cut out and the stick. I added in some crayons and colored pencils and a stapler to put it together.

After this we played the Would You Rather Game. This has become one of our favorite games every month. There is always a set of new Would You Rather questions each month that match with the months theme and it always ends up extending into our own would you rather questions. We even make up our own throughout the month as we think of something funny. This time though we used our swatter to make our decisions. Usually we use our manipulatives or nature items to place onto the card with the answer we would pick for the question, and sometimes we just take turns talking about what we would rather do. The swatters added a new element of fun and added to the learning. We got to add in some hand eye coordination with this game that usually isn't there. There was lots of laughs as they quickly tried to swat the answer they wanted.

After this we played River Bingo. We talked about what animals we might see while camping near the river. Then we played several rounds of Bingo. I used some chips that I had saved from a different month of Mother Goose Time. We always find ways to reuse the great items that they give us.

And just as a quick side note here is the canoe my daughter made yesterday when we learned about canoes.

She made a dog out of our fuse beads and has been playing with the dog and the canoe all afternoon.

Just a couple more days of camp left until we become Super Heroes!

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

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