Bees and Hexagons

This month Mother Goose Time has us participating in the most springtime fun! We are learning about bees and butterflies in the month of April and are already having SO much fun! We have learned so many things about bees this week, we can't wait to share it all with you.

Spring is in the air! Bringing the beautiful flowers and bees out.

We focused on the letter "K" and the shape hexagon this week! Perfect for the bee because the bee hive is full of hexagons! Hearing Hope say the word "hexagon" is absolute perfection. :)

Hexagons! The math manipulative provided by MGT this month.

Our first project this day was to make our own beehive and fill it with the proper number of bees.  This activity was PERFECT to practice "one more, or one less" as we put bees in and took bees out of their home. This was also a perfect exercise to practice the fine motor skill of cutting paper. Hope needed a bit of help during this activity, but Jonathan mastered it!

I also had the kids write their names on the nametags Mother Goose Time provides. I always make sure to laminate them every month and treat them more like sentence strips with dry erase markers. The kids love this activity because they get to use a marker!

Our next activity had us filling our hive with honey using bingo chips and foam dice. The kids had so much fun with this activity and played it on their own later in the day again.  I had Jonathan roll his dice twice and add the numbers together to add a little difficulty,

Our last activity for the day had us making our own "bee sticks" and writing letters in "pollen." Mother Goose Time called for us to use corn meal to act as the pollen, but unfortunately, I didn't have any! So we used Rice Krispies instead, making letters and having a little snack. The kids were thrilled! I also used the letter cards provided by Mother Goose Time every month.

Another great day in Mother Goose Time homeschool preschool! I can't wait to tell you more about our coming weeks learning more about bees and butterflies. The kids and I will be getting our very own butterfly garden to watch and study. So fun!