We are so excited about our Treasure Island curriculum box from Experience Preschool with Mother Goose Time. As much as possible, we plan on taking our activities outdoors. This theme naturally lends itself to outdoor learning, right Matey? We began our week at the beach, looking for treasure and "pirate ships." There are some tall ships (which we call pirate ships) that are available to ride on in our area and we were able to spy one getting ready for the season. We also took a stroll through a marina. Simple experiences like this provide wonderful opportunities to enrich your child's vocabulary and strengthen your relationship as you are spending time together. We talked about docks, anchors, life jackets, sail boats, fishing boats and much more. Iris now has real life experiences with these items and will be able to make connections to them later. At home, we played the theme music that came in our Experience Preschool With Mother Goose Time box. The songs have a real island feel and feature fun sounds like steel drums. One of the games in my Teacher Guide was called Island Hop. I played the CD and Iris hopped from Island to Island (hoola hoops). When the music stopped, she had to freeze, which caused a lot of gigles!. We plan on playing this game with our neighbor friend, too. To provide some background knowledge for Iris, we talked about the Topic Poster that showed a photo of an island and we recalled a few movies we watched recently that featured islands. Included in our monthly curriculum kit, are two books, suggestions for other books relating to the topic and many hands-on games. Click here to view what comes in an Experience Preschool with Mother Goose Time kit. Iris had so much fun playing the game, Number Island. She rolled a die, counted the dots and then found the matching number island floating in the water. She experimented with trying to make the numbers stay at the bottom of the dish tub and was delighted to see them stick to the side of the tub. Of course, we ended up splashing water and having such great fun we needed a change of clothes. When the weather is too warm to play outdoors (or we just need a break from the sun) there are plenty of games we can play indoors such as counting shells. These beautiful number cards, photo and shells were included in our kit. Thanks for coming along on today's adventure! Hope to see you soon.
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