I am finding it very hard for my younger children to engage in anything beside my art time. This is the reason why I try to throw in many areas of development as my focus in their art projects. Now, this may seem like a very hard task to do and carry out and still the child to follow through with the activity. For every activity for my younger children that we do I write side notes on how I can throw math in them. This is our least engaged activity with my children under two. I know that it is a key area in their development so I make sure that we are also focusing on math and their numbers even at this young stage.
With the holidays, I have only been having younger children that are not my normal children. Little Goose has been amazing to ensuring that they are getting quality education as well. I treat all my sub-care and hourly children like my own in my program. When, we begin an art project we talk about the inspiration photo and the colors, shapes and sizes they see in it. If the children are younger I help them identifying these.
We made mountains this week. I have an 18 month old during this activity. I focus on open-ended art in my program. I supply them the materials on a mess tray and then allow them to freely create their art. While doing this, I ask open-ended questions to engage the children. When the child grabs the greenery we talked about how many pieces she grabs. For her, I make sure we are focusing only on 1-3. Then, we did the same for how many cotton balls she grabbed off the tray and glued on. I use a dry erase board to write the numbers when we talk about them so that the children are exposed to text as well. Yes, she is too young for this but I feel by exposing her to this now it will give her more opportunists to build and pick up on this number knowledge.
The older children are starting to catch on that I throw math into their art activities to make them enjoy what they are learning. I have found that when it is made into a game my children in my program love it and respond very well. None of these opportunists would be possible had I never started with Mother Goose Time. It has opened up many opportunities for my program that I never knew possible.
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With the holidays, I have only been having younger children that are not my normal children. Little Goose has been amazing to ensuring that they are getting quality education as well. I treat all my sub-care and hourly children like my own in my program. When, we begin an art project we talk about the inspiration photo and the colors, shapes and sizes they see in it. If the children are younger I help them identifying these.
We made mountains this week. I have an 18 month old during this activity. I focus on open-ended art in my program. I supply them the materials on a mess tray and then allow them to freely create their art. While doing this, I ask open-ended questions to engage the children. When the child grabs the greenery we talked about how many pieces she grabs. For her, I make sure we are focusing only on 1-3. Then, we did the same for how many cotton balls she grabbed off the tray and glued on. I use a dry erase board to write the numbers when we talk about them so that the children are exposed to text as well. Yes, she is too young for this but I feel by exposing her to this now it will give her more opportunists to build and pick up on this number knowledge.
The older children are starting to catch on that I throw math into their art activities to make them enjoy what they are learning. I have found that when it is made into a game my children in my program love it and respond very well. None of these opportunists would be possible had I never started with Mother Goose Time. It has opened up many opportunities for my program that I never knew possible.
I received Mother Goose Time in exchange for my honest feedback about products and how we use them.
www.mothergoosetime.com