Skip to main content

Strength Training

Superhero training continued this week and we focused on Superpowers. We learned about Invisibility, Super Speed, Flight, Super Strength, and Super Breath.  Doing our regular schedule of school wasnt easy this week though. It was unusually hot here and because of fires North of us in Canada our air was and still is in unhealthy ranges. So when the air was clear we spent as much time outside as we could, and when the winds changed and it was unhealthy again we stayed inside with the windows closed, the fan on and a constant flow of homemade popsicles. We might have watched a little more TV then normal as well, but since a lot of the shows we watched had superheroes in them we will say it was research! The great thing about the Mother Goose Time themes and activities is that we can do them anywhere. We pretended to use our superpowers at the park, the grocery store, and out in the grassy area near our house. So even though we weren't super active with school this week we were still able to discuss a lot of the themes, read the suggested stories, and use imaginative play while we were out and about.


My favorite activity this week was the Barbell Make and Play that we did for the Super Strength day. We started off in the morning by painting our paper plates black and rolling up the black paper to make the bar. while the paint was drying we went to the grocery store because every growing super hero needs to eat. While we were at the store we talked about what it would be like to be super strong and I had them help me lift the heavy items and bags. we also talked about how lifting weights and heavy things help to make your muscles stronger just like eating healthy foods. I made sure to tell them that you have to make sure you lift safely so you don't accidently hurt your muscles instead of make them stronger. We practiced safe lifting with a box of fizzy water. When we came home we finished assembling the weights and then we played the Strength Training Game. 


First I showed them both what each exercise should look like so they knew what to do if they landed on the square, I also let them practice the exercise. Then we took turns spinning the spinner and doing the exercise that we landed on. After we each had a chance to do each exercise a couple of times I took out my real 5lb weights so they could see what those were like. Preston attempted to lift them and try the exercises but they were to heavy for him. It gave us all a good laugh and we decided we would stick with the Mother Goose Time weights instead. 


I am really excited for the next couple weeks of this theme. While learning about fantasy superheroes has been fun and inspiring I am excited that we will be learning about real life superheroes as well. I love that we will be learning about jobs and people that are working to save the world and make people safe. Superheroes don't only have to be amazing people from storybooks, they can also be amazing people working in your neighborhood and communities. Anyone can make a difference.


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



  


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Bug Homes

This week with  Mother Goose Time we learned all about Bug Homes. We talked about bugs that use plants as their homes, live in dirt, make hills, webs, and hives. This was such an interesting week especially for my older daughter. She had so many questions and these topics sparked so many conversations. I think our favorite day was about hives. We learned so much about bees and we even did a fun experiment. One activity we did was the Honeycomb activity. This was an invitation to create project so I set up everything that they would need and then let them create. This helped my son with his fine motor skills because we used little hexagon stencils to draw the picture, It also gave me a chance to have him verbally tell me what he included in is picture. He did a great job and retained quite a bit of information. I loved that after the project was over he was able to tell me what was going on in his picture. He included the hexagon cells of the honeycomb, them he ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Lets Talk About Manipulatives...And a Give-Away!

I am so excited about this post!  Mother Goose Time has allowed us to do a giveaway with our readers! One lucky winner will win 2 bags of Mother Goose Time manipulatives. It will be a surprise what they give you but let me ease your mind, we have loved all the manipulatives they have sent so far. Each month of Mother Goose Time has a theme and everything you get works with that theme. This means you get a meaningful month of learning that is all planned out for you. Every month you get a new calendar set up as well as numbers, shape, and color to add to your circle time. You also get a storybook and a music CD that is matched to the months theme as well. But, I think the most fun items you get is the hands on stuff. They include a stamp to go along with the shape of the month, cookie cutters of the letters you will be focusing on, and 2 bags of really good quality manipulatives. This Months theme is Nursery Rhymes and we received a bag of sheep counters and a bag of lacing s...
6 comments
Read more

Black Tie Not Required

World Penguin Day was this week on April 25 and conveniently we had a day about Penguins in this months  Mother Goose Time box. I switched a few days around so that we could do the Penguin Day on World Penguin Day because what better way to celebrate this adorable birds special day then to learn all about them. We started off the morning by reading the suggested story in the Teacher Guide which gave us some really good information about penguins. After reading the story we used potatoes as eggs and tried balancing them on our feet like the daddy penguins do. It was pretty hard and we gained a lot of respect for those amazing dads! After this we played the Penguin Moves game from the Teacher Guide. It used the included pocket cube and the cube cards. This game had us waddling, hopping, and sliding to different letters and numbers as review. This was a lot of fun and a great way to get the wiggles out first thing in the morning. They especially...
Post a Comment
Read more