Do you ever have this busy holiday week that seems to go by so fast and you have so many activities that you did not get to do? That is exactly what happened in my program this week with my daycare children. They were only here for a few hours and days due to the holidays. I do not like to waste materials and hate for my children not do all the great activities that Mother Goose Time had planned for us. One of the great things I love about Mother Goose Time is that I can pick and pull activities and use them when our schedule allows.
This week, we did our Money mask, leaf cutter ants and our geckos. We talked about Monkeys using our story for the day and our discussion at circle time. MGT provides all this in the lesson plan guide for easy use. The children loved to make their monkey mask. I provide all the materials and set them out on the table and allow them to freely choose the materials to make their mask. I feel that offering them open-ended art enhances their development and allows it to grow if I am not telling them how something needs to look. Children should be given the opportunity to freely create using a variety of materials. How I do this with MGT is I show them the inspiration photo and give them a variety of materials. Then, we talk about how they would like to make their mask and using what supplies. Throughout the project I ask them open-ended questions about what they are doing and why they are doing such. Best pure information observations possible.
We missed leaf cutter day, so the children and I re-discussed what they are and what they do at circle time. I show them the example card and we talk about the details in the photo. Colors, sizes and shapes being our main focus. They all agreed that they needed black for their ants because red one hurt you and are mean. They were allowed to dry when they were finished. Next, after they were dry the older children helped me talk about how we could attach the legs. One child wanted to glue the legs, another wanted to staple them and another wanted scissors to cut a whole on each side and slide it through. They were given all the materials to do each. My older ones helped my little ones out. Final touch was we added eyes so they could see.
Geckos are amazing so we spent a few days with them. We used the sensory bin for about a week the children loved it so much. We used scoops, spoons, tongs and dirt and milkshake straws and yarn and small straws. The children took turns feeding their own gecko these items. (one child said these were the worms). We did our gecko art a little different to make it more open ended. I put the gecko on the paper and we talked about making an outline and then decorating the gecko after. C use the qtip to make marks around most of his gecko. Then , I pulled the gecko off and they were given the scrap box, glue and scissors to finish their qecko.
I love everything MGT gives us but I change the art up a little to ensure that it is open-ended art.
Thanks Mother Goose Time for allowing me to blog for my wonderful curriculum.
www.mothergoosetime.com
This week, we did our Money mask, leaf cutter ants and our geckos. We talked about Monkeys using our story for the day and our discussion at circle time. MGT provides all this in the lesson plan guide for easy use. The children loved to make their monkey mask. I provide all the materials and set them out on the table and allow them to freely choose the materials to make their mask. I feel that offering them open-ended art enhances their development and allows it to grow if I am not telling them how something needs to look. Children should be given the opportunity to freely create using a variety of materials. How I do this with MGT is I show them the inspiration photo and give them a variety of materials. Then, we talk about how they would like to make their mask and using what supplies. Throughout the project I ask them open-ended questions about what they are doing and why they are doing such. Best pure information observations possible.
We missed leaf cutter day, so the children and I re-discussed what they are and what they do at circle time. I show them the example card and we talk about the details in the photo. Colors, sizes and shapes being our main focus. They all agreed that they needed black for their ants because red one hurt you and are mean. They were allowed to dry when they were finished. Next, after they were dry the older children helped me talk about how we could attach the legs. One child wanted to glue the legs, another wanted to staple them and another wanted scissors to cut a whole on each side and slide it through. They were given all the materials to do each. My older ones helped my little ones out. Final touch was we added eyes so they could see.
Geckos are amazing so we spent a few days with them. We used the sensory bin for about a week the children loved it so much. We used scoops, spoons, tongs and dirt and milkshake straws and yarn and small straws. The children took turns feeding their own gecko these items. (one child said these were the worms). We did our gecko art a little different to make it more open ended. I put the gecko on the paper and we talked about making an outline and then decorating the gecko after. C use the qtip to make marks around most of his gecko. Then , I pulled the gecko off and they were given the scrap box, glue and scissors to finish their qecko.
I love everything MGT gives us but I change the art up a little to ensure that it is open-ended art.
Thanks Mother Goose Time for allowing me to blog for my wonderful curriculum.
www.mothergoosetime.com