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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 learned about heads we labeled that area on the poster, When we learned about arms and legs we labeled those and then lastly we labeled the hands and feet. We did this as part of our morning routine right after introducing the days topic. They both had a lot of fun doing this. 

We also did some great art to help tie everything together. I really love that Mother Goose Time includes such fun art projects that relate to what we've been talking about. My favorite projects are the invitation to create projects. I love that these open ended projects let the kids use the materials in whatever way they feel is suitable for the art they are creating. They can take what they know and the new stuff they have learned and then apply it in a very creative way. Sometimes they struggle with this process but I usually try to keep some ideas ready to help them think about what they might want to do. A lot of times they don't go with what I suggested but it helps spark an idea of their own .




These were some of our favorites of the week. We made puppets and then put on a puppet show about ourselves, and we made these great x-ray pictures. My daughter made a dog for hers because that is all she can think about right now. I thought these came out really cute and they both loved seeing the pictures of x-rays. 

The last thing I want to mention is the friendship bracelets we are receiving this year. last year was feathers and I realized to late that I should have kept them. I put the last half of the years feathers on a key ring and brought them out for good reminders on how to be a good friend. This year we are getting bracelets. I know that I want to keep them again because I really liked being able to go back and discuss these traits when needed, or even point out when I saw them using one of the traits to be a good friend. This year I decided that I will make a friendship bracelet chain out of them. Each month I will connect one of the new bracelets onto the previous months bracelets and theN leave it out for them to see. 

This months bracelet was about being kind. We had some great conversarions about how we can be kind friends. I cant wait to add to our chain. 

Next week we will learn about our five senses 



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





                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

  



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