Squirrels LOVE Apples

What better way to learn about what's in the orchard besides some fun games and art projects. Today, we discovered that squirrels just love eating apples. Mother Goose Time gave us many activities today that helped us with letters, colors, numbers, drawing lines and memory.

Another day, that I got completely involved in all of the activities and the result was amazing! Sonia even loves taking pictures of me for "her" blog!

We started our day with color by letter. This helped Daniella with her letter recognition and helped Sonia really work on staying in the lines. What I noticed today was that she really watched how I held the market, how I colored slowly around the edges and faster in the middle and the outcome was so inspiring. She really began to enjoy coloring and trying to stay in the lines.

When it came time to work on our tracing Sonia did really great. She has been working hard on making corners so this really helped her. Though this activity is geared towards younger than Sonia's age and older than Daniella's age, any activity given by MGT can be made to fit any age. So, Sonia worked on corners and Daniella worked on controlling her marker.

And now the fun part! We played memory! Sonia punched out all of the different apple stages and we played again and again. Daniella joined in for a little while but got bored and wanted to continue coloring. After that, I decided that this game might be really good to help Daniella with her letter recognition as well. So, I wrote matching letters on the back of matching pairs and she was able to find the pieces easier (less frustrating for her) while also working on her letters. I must say...great idea!

** Mother Goose Time allows me to follow two of my biggest passions. Educating my children and writing! I am honored to work with Mother Goose Time. I do receive the curriculum in exchange for my blog posts but every word in here is honest and a true example of this curriculum in a multi age home practice.

Halloween Workshop

We love holiday workshops around here, heck we just love art workshops but its even more fun around the Holidays. Once October comes, I have to say that my heart becomes a little happier, my soul becomes a little lighter. October through December is a simple magical time for children.

During our workshops, I come up with about 4 or more different activities all using different types of art and media. I set out a bunch of different items and just let them create. I join in to show them how I use some of the items but not to teach them how, just for inspiration and fun for me! Let's see what we had going on today.

Well, of course, there is pumpkin painting. And yes, we picked the pumpkins ourselves. We went on a homeschool trip with about 18 other home schoolers to a pumpkin patch and learned about pumpkins, corn and vegetables. The kids were able to pick their own pumpkins and radishes and bring them home. It was a delightful day!

Next up, we used glue and made a pumpkin collage.

After that, came our colored pencil ghosts!

Now, we went for chalk and a hand print spider!

And our grand finale, our very own paper bag pumpkin patch. This activity was Mother Goose Time provided and, as always, provided us with multiple different learning opportunities while still having a ton of fun.

We practiced cutting, stuffing, painting, tying and gluing.

 

 

** Mother Goose Time allows me to follow two of my biggest passions. Educating my children and writing! I am honored to work with Mother Goose Time. I do receive the curriculum in exchange for my blog posts but every word in here is honest and a true example of this curriculum in a multi age home practice.

Apple and Cherry Trees!

During our co-op this week, we did so much! We introduced new station time where we set up a few different areas that the kids can go to and just explore and enjoy and it was a hit! We had patterns, sorting and tangram fun.

We also read Johnny Appleseed and then created Johnny puppets.

They also used a stamp pad and made thumb print apple trees and put on apple stickers.

Afterwards, they made their very own trees with a feathered friend!

They LOVED the popcorn cherry tree and I was shocked that they actually followed the rules and did not eat the popcorn used for art. They were rewarded with fresh popcorn after though!

** Mother Goose Time allows me to follow two of my biggest passions. Educating my children and writing! I am honored to work with Mother Goose Time. I do receive the curriculum in exchange for my blog posts but every word in here is honest and a true example of this curriculum in a multi age home practice.