By far, the most popular game we played was "Little mouse, little mouse, what color is your house?" One of the kids would leave the room and we would hide the mouse behind one of the houses. Then, the child would come back, we would say the rhyme, and the child would guess a color house to look behind until we found the mouse. We had to play this several times because they loved it so much.
We practiced counting and estimating with "There was an old woman who lived in a shoe". It turns out Jared's shoe hold 14 people, mine holds 7, and Hyrum's holds 4.
For our snacks, we had muffin man muffins, curds and whey (cheese curds and cottage cheese), Jack be nimble's candlestick (baby banana inside a bagel), and yes, we let Humpty Dumpty fall and then ate him.
For the letter L I realized that many nursery rhymes had a lamb in them (Mary had a little lamb, Little Bo Peep, Baa Baa Black sheep). We took a lamb theme as a mini-theme for one of the days. One of our activities was sorting black and white pom poms and then glueing them on lamb pictures to make one white and one black sheep.
We have a good group of kids this year and we're having a lot of fun! We'll be hosting again in two weeks with the themes of opposites and math.
5 comments:
Looks like lots of fun! I may have to steal a few of your ideas to do with the boys. ;)
Great job! It looks like a blast. I may have to do nursery rhymes when I teach again in May. You did excellent activities!
Those are such good ideas!! I get overwhelmed trying to come up with creative ways to teach toddlers educational topics. Your ideas are so fun!
Abby loves the little mouse game. We played it at our old library but since it was a group game, to make it longer, before turning over each house we said, "Little mouse, little mouse, are you in the ___ house?" When I brought it home and started doing the rhyme Abby quickly explained to me that I was doing it wrong. She had a great time last week, thanks!
I love the mouse game. Such great ideas!
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