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

Learning About Pond Plants

Last week we learned all about the plants that grow in and around ponds with Mother Goose Time . It was  a lot of fun because we live near several ponds and we have a lake right out in our backyard. We learned about Submerged pond plants, bog plants, emergent pond plants, floating pond plants, and algae. We were lucky because we got to go out and see a lot of the plants that we leaned about. The suggested stories that went with this week were also very helpful and gave us a lot of information about the different kinds of pond plants. I actually learned a lot about pond plants! Did you know that submerged pond plants are a major source of oxygen in the pond, or that cattails are edible, and there are different zones in a pond. Our favorite day was the day we spent learning about floating pond plants. We spent our day making mini ponds, doing a root experiment, and investigating things that float. We also decided to go on a pond walk at the end of the day to loo...
Post a Comment
Read more

Filling in the Gaps

This is our second month using the  Mother Goose Time More Math and More Literacy workbooks. I have really noticed a change in my 4 year old son since using these workbooks. He will be 5 in just a few more months and I thought that it might benefit him to have a little more in the way of practice pages and reinforcement so when I was given the opportunity to try these out I jumped on it. He was really excited to have his own workbook and I noticed that he started to try a little harder to do his work. I focused on the More Math workbook this month because I already know he needs work on his letters and letter sounds. I was curious about his math skills. He is stronger in his math skills right now and I wanted to find out what areas needed more reinforcement and what areas are pretty much mastered. The pages in the workbook go along with the months theme and have great pictures. They are fun and inviting and he feels like he is doing big boy work, which he is so its win...
Post a Comment
Read more

All About Me!

We started off our new school year by learning about ourselves. Septembers  Mother Goose Time theme is called My Amazing Body and it includes learning about body parts, five senses, staying healthy, and clothing. We had so much fun learning about or bodies this week, we learned about our head, arms, legs, hands, and feet. Some of our favorite activities of the week included working on shapes, patterns and sorting. We used the included tangrams to problem solve ways to fit the shapes onto the shape Design Mats. Some of the designs required some perseverance to get them to fit together perfectly. We were also given a bag of buttons and laces this month. We used these to fill in the pattern guides and we used them to practice sorting by shapes and color. He has really taken a liking to patters lately and really enjoyed this activity. We also spent some time with our theme poster every morning. We used the labels to label our little kids on the poster. The day we lea...
Post a Comment
Read more