Character Rhymes

We have really been enjoying our nursery rhyme unit with experience early learning (formally mother goose time ) here is a little glimpse into our week!!

Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

(Child sits on pillow)

Humpty Dumpty has a great fall

(Child falls off pillow)

All the king’s horses and all

The king’s men

( others gather around.)

Couldn’t put Humpty

Together again!

( others help the child get up.)

This activity builds responsible decision-making by helping children understand the importance of kind gestures toward others.

Broken egg game

Each child had an egg shape white paper and were asked to draw Humpty dumpy face on the egg. And then helped the children cut their eggs into two or more pieces. Next the children glued their Humpty Dumpty together again.

Broken hearts

We folded scrap paper in half and cut out many heart shapes of different sizes. Then we cut the hearts in half laying them on the table. We pretended that the hearts sat on a wall and then had a great fall and we needed to put them back together.

Crown

We discussed how a good king should act and how kings help their kingdom. The children decorated their own crowns and pretended to be kings. The also used blocks to build castles and used toy people and animals for play.

Supplies our preschool curriculum supplied

•Crown

• Jewels

Crown

Your supplies

•Blocks

•Markets

•Toy Animals or people

•Tape

Our theme this week with our preschool curriculum was character rhymes. Characters in nursery rhymes such as “Humpty Dumpty” or “Little Bo Peep” all tell a simple story. These stories are short and are recited in a rhythmic way that encourage children to move their bodies.

I hope you all had a great week and we will see you again next week. Thanks for stopping by.

As an Experience Early Learning Blog Ambassador, we receive the Experience Early Learning Preschool curriculum in exchange for our honest and authentic stories resulting from our personal experiences. As always, our opinions on amazing stuff for children are 100% our own. Keep in mind that all preschoolers do things in their own time and on their own terms. What one is ready for, another might not be. Please use your best judgement when planning activities for your children.

Our First Week With Nursery Rhymes!

Welcome back! This week we started a new unit on Nursery Rhymes with Experience EarlyLearning ( formerly Mother Goose Time) This week our theme was Number Rhymes in our Preschool Curriculum. Now Let’s take a look into our week…..

Piggy Puppets

This was a make and play activity that our preschool curriculum supplied us with. We all sat down and I asked all the children to wiggle their fingers and we recited

“This Little Piggy”

This little piggy went to market,

This little piggy stayed home.

This little piggy had roast beef,

This little piggy had none.

And this little piggy cried, “wee, wee, wee!”

All the way home.

Next we made our Make & Play activity. First, the children glued the noses onto their pigs and then added eyes and a mouth. Next, the children added a story prop to each pig’s hand some example included: money for the market, a window for the home, roast beef, an empty plate, and wee, wee, wee sign. Last, the children added a pipe cleaner to the popsicle stick to make curly tails and then taped it on their puppet.

These turned out so cute…. I even made a extra one and laminated it so we can keep the puppets for many years to come. This was also a hit with our babies in our group. The piggy Puppets were a great activity to get all our different age groups involved.

1, 2, Buckle My Shoe

1, 2, buckle my shoe.

3, 4, shut the door.

5, 6, pick up sticks.

7, 8, lay them straight.

9, 10, do it again!

We had so much fun using props during Circle Time while we recited our nursery rhyme. We also used sticks to practice building the letter A. I simply asked the children “can you build the letter A with sticks? How many sticks will you need? ”

We also did our letter Aa I Spy sheet that our preschool curriculum supplies us with each week. This week we used our sticks to point to the letter Aa and then we colored the pictures that begin with the /a/ sound.

Letter writing in sand and shaving cream

Hickory Dickory Dock

Hickory Dickory dock

The mouse ran up the clock.

The clock struck one

The mouse ran down

Hickory Dickory dock!

Up & Down the Clock Game

•The children played together and took turns spinning the clock on the game board.

•The child would spin and insert that number into the rhyme( e.g., “The clock struck 6”)

• Next they moved the game piece that many spaces on the board, counting aloud.

• The children Continued to take turns until all the animals made it around the clock.

I hope you all had a great week and we will see you again next week. Thanks for stopping by.

As an Experience Early Learning Blog Ambassador, we receive the Experience Early Learning Preschool curriculum in exchange for our honest and authentic stories resulting from our personal experiences. As always, our opinions on amazing stuff for children are 100% our own. Keep in mind that all preschoolers do things in their own time and on their own terms. What one is ready for, another might not be. Please use your best judgement when planning activities for your children. #preschool #EELblogger Experience Early Learning | Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | Instagram

Making Learning fun!!

Welcome back to Mrs.Kats Kids this week we are finishing up our unit Winter In The Woods with experience early learning (formally mother goose time). We had a great time discussing how babies change this week and we also did a overview of our monthly learning objectives. This month our preschool curriculum focused on • Letters S,C,R • Numbers 9,10 • Shape Oval

Cub to Lion

These turned out so cute!!! I started out this activity by asking if we were born with long hair and they All laughed. We then talked how when baby lions are born they aren’t born with Maine’s but by the time they are five years old, male loins will have a full mane.

Experience early learning supplied us with

• a paper circle

• Wooden spoon

• Wiggle eyes

• Adhesive dots

Your supplies

• markers

• Tape or glue

• Scissors

Make

• encourage children to decorate the wooden spoon with markers to make a lion face and add the wiggle eyes.

• Tape or glue the spoon to the circle paper.

• Fringe cut around the paper to make a mane.

Play

• invite children to put on a show with their lion puppets.

Our little Journals

Each week we look through “our little Journal “book. …… Given monthly from experience early learning curriculum We review our Letters, shapes, and numbers. We do a lot of tracing in our Journals so it makes perfect use of our fine motor skills.

Brave Bunnies

We worked on our number concepts 1-10 by rolling the dice and counting the dots then finding the cup with that number.

We used a cotton ball “bunny” jump into his hole.

Keeping baby animals safe

This week at Mrs. Kat‘s kids we had a blast with our preschool curriculum experience early learning (formally mother goose time). Our unit is baby animals and our theme this week is keeping babies safe. Take a look at our week!!!

Veterinarian Visit

Today we discussed “what happens at a veterinarian visit?” We read the book Biscuits visits the Doctor By: Alyssa Satin Copucilli. After our story I invited the children to the table and we pretended to be veterinarians. With a table top math game and a fixer up letter game.

Sick Animals

Supplies

• A bowl of water

• Syringe

• animal figurines

• pocket cube with cube cards 1-6

How we played

I sat A bowl of water, a syringe and an animal figurines on the table. Then I invited the children to take turns Rolling the cube to see how many Animals needed medicine. Then the child lined up that many animals and applied “medicine”to each animal.

Fixer up letter game

Supplies

• letters S,C, and R cards

• Gauze or toilet paper to wrap

How we played

We took turns singing a song to the tune of “ five little monkeys jumping on the bed”

Letter S was jumping on the bed,

It fell off and bumped its head.

Mama call the doctor and the doctor said,

“No More letters jumping on the bed!”

*Then we continued with letters C and R

• the children took turns wrapping the gauze around the letter.

Paw prints

These turned out so cute y’all!!!

Experience early learning supplied us with these cute paw print stencils. This activity was so much fun and so easy, even my younger kids could make paw prints. I let the children decide if they wanted to use their hands or a paintbrush. They had a great time getting creative and mixing colors.

Bear shaker

This past week we have been learning about keeping animals safe and we have focused a lot on sounds that animals will make when in danger. We made these fun bear shakers. The children had such a great time shaking it to the beat of the music and ading sound effects To the song.

Supplies ( from your preschool curriculum) box)

•Plates

•brown paper

•wiggle eyes

•beans

•adhesive dots

Your supplies

• Paint

• Glue

• Stapler

How to make: invite children to use the materials to decorate the plates to look like a bear face staple the plates together, leaving an opening to insert beans. After filling shaker, finish stapling. ( use tape to reinforce edges, if necessary)

Another letter game that we played all week and will Continue playing next week was called Feed Baby Bear. Experience early learning (formally mother goose time curriculum) focuses on three letters each month. This month we have been focusing on letters S,C, and R. This game has been great during transition times. I will spread the fish letters around the room and invite each child to collect one of each letter and have them bring them back to the bear and naming the letter before feeding their bear.

Thanks again for stopping by Mrs. Kat’s Kids, see you next week with our new unit nursery rhymes.

All things letter C

Welcome back!!! This week at Mrs. Kats with our (Experience Early learning formally Mother Goose Time) curriculum, we Investigated different ways that animals carry their babies…. In the mouth, on the back, in a pouch, on the chest and in the arms. Our preschool curriculum is packed with daily research based skills through play and hands-on projects. This week I wanted to Focus more on language and literacy. I am going to show you how awesome our curriculum is with ideas for children to really get excited about learning letters. Experience early learning focuses on three letters each month.

I see C’s

Each letter that we learn comes with a fun I spy game that the kids really enjoy. There is always a fun spy glass that the kids love. This week The children were asked to find the letter Cc on the I spy game and cover them with a Tangram. Then color the pictures beginning with the /C/ sound. each I spy game is different so make sure to follow along so you can get more fun ideas.

Let’s make crafty C’s 

I put a bunch of craft material in the middle of the table and had children highlight and decorate the letter C’s on their paper. The children were able to create their very own unique letters and boy did they love this!!!! This would be a great activity to do on a rainy or cold day. This activity really kept the children engaged and interested. It was also a great way to work on many fine motor skills.

Ready set C’s 

I placed manipulatives in different areas of the home allowing each child to have their own area. I told the children that I was going to set a timer for 30 seconds and whoever made the most C’s using their manipulative pieces would win.

Next we did who can make the biggest C in 30 seconds.

This activity was so fun and got pretty competitive with the boys. Lol

During circle time I ask children to find an item that has the letter /C / and place it on the loose letter Mat.

We love using our loose letter parts and Mat that Experience Early Learning supply us with each month.

Thanks for stopping by, come back next week with more from Mrs.Kats Kids.

Waiting For Babies

Wow what a week it was Investigating baby animals puppies, kittens, and seahorses to name a few. It was so nice to get back to our Experience Early Learning curriculum ( formally mother goose time) after our Christmas break. Some Discovery Activities we experienced this week with our preschool curriculum were •Baby Name •Mama Pig and Piglets Math •Tangram Eggs •S Is For Seahorse •Birthday Banner •Pet Care Patterns

Cat Mask

Starting our week with some imaginary cat play was so much fun. The kids enjoyed decorating their cat mask and then they role-played as kittens pouncing on toys. We even extended our activity and I had the children pounce on the numbers that I called aloud.

Mama Pig & Piglets

We talked about how some animals have babies in their belly. we played a little math game. I set out the mama pig poster and some pre rolled balls of playdough. Next, I asked the Children to roll the dice and then they added that many pieces of playdough onto the belly of the mama pig.

Tracing Rubber Bands

This month we are focusing on the Oval shape. One activity we did this week was rubber band tracing. We used giant rubber band and traced around the inside on black paper and used a white crayon.

The Letter Ss

Our Preschool Curriculum focuses on three letters each month. This week we focused on The letter Ss.

S is for snake… S is for Sun.. S is for sock..

We love using our loose letter parts and Mat that Experience Early Learning supply us with each month.

Each letter also comes with a fun I spy game that the kids really enjoy. There is always a fun spy glass that the kids love. This week we painted the letter S and pictures that begin with the letter S….. each ISpy game is different so make sure to follow along so you can get more fun ideas.

Watercolor Eggs

I set out our Inspiration photo, watercolor paint, white crayons, and a white paper egg shaped paper. I had the children draw designs on their egg with the white crayon and then use the watercolor paint to see the magic happen. It was very interesting observing the children variety of colors and their reaction to the wax resistant technique to decorate their egg.

Thanks for stopping by…. come back next week for more from Mrs. Kats kids

Let’s Go Sledding!!!

Let’s go sledding!!

Welcome we have been having a blast this week in our winter wonderland. This week with Experience Early Learning curriculum (formerly mother goose time) we focused on winter gear. We warmed up with friendship games, learned to sew mittens for fine motor fun and we designed our own sleds.

Our preschool curriculum comes loaded with all kinds of fun activities and crafts one of our favorite crafts we created was a sled and then we used our little people and played.

Sled

Supplies:

*Tray

*Twine

*Paint

*Hole punch

*Tape

The children used the materials to make the sled and then we used the sled as a prop during imaginary play.

Finishing out our week we made a winter wonderland of our own, just look at these sweet kids all in their winter gear…. we are in Ga and it was like 67 this day. lol

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you all are enjoying your winter. If you are looking for a preschool curriculum, experience early learning is amazing.

Winter in the woods week 2… snowman Day!

Snowman Day

Welcome back this week at Mrs. Kats Kids. We started our second week with Experience early learning ( formally mother goose time) winter in the woods this week our topics were Pine tree, snowflake, pinecones, icicles, and snowman. We had a great time this week with our Preschool curriculum and we want to show you what our snowman day looked liked.

A look inside our snowman day at Mrs. Kat’s

First we ended circle time up with singing frosty the snowman and reading the book The Christmas Snowman. The children really enjoyed that the animals all helped the snowman become a Christmas Snowman.

After our story, we went to the table and I told the children that I wanted them to use their imagination and make their very own Christmas snowman. I sat out different styles of hats and noses made out of construction paper, beans, Googly eyes, yarn, white paint and bubble wrap. I then gave each child Blue construction paper and three different sizes of white circles. Next, I asked them to build their snowman using the circles and glue. Then I told them to use the Materials on the table and make your snowman into your very own Christmas snowman.

It is truly amazing seeing a child’s mind at work. Every child used their own imagination to create their very own Christmas snowman. It’s so much fun seeing their personalities shine through their snowman.

My snowman story and counting snowballs

Snowball fight

who doesn’t like a good snowball fight… we had so much fun dividing into team and using cotton balls as “snowballs” we also counted to see how many snowballs we had at the end.

We used our snowman cube cards that came with our preschool curriculum we took turns tossing the cube and then we counted how many snowballs were on the picture. Then we rolled playdough into that amount of snowballs.

Snowball story

Our snowman story focused the children to think of the sequence of making a snowman. What happens first to last.

This week we also made our Christmas gifts for our parents, this is always one of my favorite activities to do each year. My favorite part is seeing how excited they get to give their parents a gift.

I hope you all had a great week and we will see you again next week. Thanks for stopping by.

As an Experience Early Learning Blog Ambassador, we receive the Experience Early Learning Preschool curriculum in exchange for our honest and authentic stories resulting from our personal experiences. As always, our opinions on amazing stuff for children are 100% our own. Keep in mind that all preschoolers do things in their own time and on their own terms. What one is ready for, another might not be. Please use your best judgement when planning activities for your children.

Winter in the woods week 1

Welcome back y’all, this week we started our new theme winter in the woods with Experience Early Learning (formerly Mother Goose Time) preschool curriculum and if you have been with me through our journey you know how much we love our preschool Curriculum .

Week one: Forest Animals

My group of boys really enjoyed learning All things Animals this week. We had so much fun acting, painting, reading, dancing…. all about Forest Animals.

The activity that really got the boy’s attention was “Bear Day” we went outside and sang the song “ we’re going on a bear hunt” and walked towards a huge leave pile. Earlier in the morning I raked some leaves into a huge leaf pile and we used that as our cave. I have to say the Boys loved acting like bears and acting like they were getting ready for hibernation.

Once back inside we made A Bear Den

Materials used:

•paper bowl

•Nature items ( e.g., leaves, sticks, grass)

•Bear photos

( all supply’s came with our Experience Early Learning Curriculum monthly box)

Set up:

• I set out all the materials and showed them a picture of a bear near a den and we talked about how bears live in dens. I then asked how would you make a den if you were a Bear.

We then used the Bear photos and used our imagination to pretend like a bear in our den.

Another animal that we made was an Owl, we made puppets and the kids had a great time saying “Whoo Whoo” and running around acting like little owls.

We have also been working a lot on our fine motor skills and I found some pencil grips off amazon that will help children hold the pencil the correct way. These are great for assisting your child with pencil gripping and writing.

JARLINK Pencil Grips for Kids Handwriting, Aid Grip Trainer Posture Correction Finger Grip for Kids, Adults, Arthritis Designed for Righties or Leftie https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CVX738H/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_T546yrhrp7jBa

We practiced writing in our journals and the kids really enjoyed them.

And that’s it for this week, thanks for stopping by. See y’all again next week with more from winter in the woods.

A quick glance of experience early learning toddler curriculum!!

Welcome back!!

Y’all know how much I Love experience early learning preschool curriculum ( formerly Mother Goose Time) well……. guess what!!! They have a toddler curriculum and I was lucky enough to take a Peek of this amazing set up and I even got to test it out with my sweet kiddos.

First of all, the box comes with all your materials and it’s laid out for four weeks with five lessons each week. Everything is color-coded and a number coded. You will teach language and literacy, math and reasoning, music and movement, and art and drama.

Here is an example of the lesson card on the front if you have a picture of the finished product and when you turn it around it will have listed all the materials needed, how to teach your activity and then how to observe your students.