Bees, Counting and Number Sense

Hey all! As the year progresses, I can feel these blog posts getting less and less of my own attention, but I have so loved this season! Homeschooling has been such an amazing adventure for us! The Mother Goose Time curriculum has been a God send, and I am so relieved to know that I am giving my children the best start to their education.

One of our favorite days this week was the study on baby bees. There were songs and rhymes and a lot of counting! The art project was definitely one of our favorites all year. We made our own queen bee hats! While we were making these we talked about the important roles of the queen bee and how she is the mama to all of the baby bees. This was another chance for the kids to practice with their scissors and perfect that fine motor skill.

So cute!

One of my FAVORITE things the Mother Goose Time curriculum includes is the "My Little Journal" with all of the letters and numbers we are learning this month included.  The kids get to practice their writing skills along with the creativity of drawing something pertaining to that letter/number/color. We write in this journal every week! Jonathan chose to draw a bee on the front of his journal. His name writing has come a long way this year!

A great day to wear her butterfly shirt! :) 

The last of our favorite activities this week was "laying bee eggs in the bee hive."  The kids had so much fun with this one! They made little nests in the play dough, rolled the dice, and placed that many eggs in the hive. SO cute! To add an element of difficulty, I had them also write the number of "eggs" in the hive on the name tags provided by MGT. I laminated the name tags so they act more like sentence strips with a dry erase marker. We use these ALL month long.

I have noticed a big increase in Hope's "one to one correspondence" number sense in the last month! She can now accurately count a number of items one at a time. Especially if the number of items is less than 10. Activities like this one are an EXCELLENT way to increase that one-to-one-correspondence skill.

Another great week in our homeschool preschool! I have loved seeing my children grow in such leaps and bounds this year. What a joy it is to watch them learn! I am very blessed.