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Mmm, Cookies!

Mmm, Cookies!

Posted by on Jul 18, 2012 in Math Activities, Picture Book Activities | 0 comments

So far M has chosen Mmm, Cookies! by Robert Munsch as one of his bedtime stories every night this week. I figured M would enjoy making his own play clay cookies like in the book, but I also thought it might be fun to use ‘cookies’ as a way for M to work on developing his number sense. At the beginning of the book, Munsch provides a recipe so the kids can create their own play clay cookies. I used a slightly different salt dough recipe due to the fact that I wanted M’s cookies to dry so we could paint them and use them as Math manipulatives. The recipe I used is intended for drying the salt dough in the microwave, which you can find here. 

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C is for Clouds!

C is for Clouds!

Posted by on Jun 21, 2012 in Painting, Picture Book Activities, Preschool Letter Activities, Tactile Alphabet | 0 comments

This past week M and I practiced the letter/sound correlation of the letter C. M has a tendency to pronounce the /c/ sound as /t/, so we focused on enunciating words that had /c/ as its initial, middle, or end sound. One of the many words we practiced was the word ‘cloud’, so I thought it would be fun to do some activities around clouds using two great books: Little Cloud, by Eric Carle, and It Looked Like Spilt Milk, by Charles G. Shaw.

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Caterpillars and Ladybugs Rock!

Caterpillars and Ladybugs Rock!

Posted by on May 24, 2012 in Awesome iPad Apps, Bugs, Caterpillars and Butterflies, ladybugs, Math Activities, Painting, Picture Book Activities, Rock Activities, Spring Crafts and Activities | 0 comments

M and I have been making a lot of trips to the public library. He really enjoys listening to the stories and songs at story-time, and then browsing the shelves for books to take home afterwards. M has always enjoyed books. Many times, when things get just a little TOO quiet, I can find M sprawled on the floor, or sitting in his room, flipping through books and trying to retell the story in his own words (it makes my heart sing every single time!). I hope his interest and love of books is just one of the things he carries with him for the rest of his long life.

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