Desert Plants...

Another Mother Goose lesson last week was about desert plants...

The kids had fun making their own cactus art...

I love all the different painting tools that Mother Goose always provides!

The book box came again!!!  Thank you to all who ordered this year!  I was able to purchase a butterfly garden for next month's Mother Goose Time theme "Bees & Butterflies" with my bonus points!!!

We received book coupons to use in April!!!

Desert Tortoises...

Another Mother Goose lesson we had last week was about tortoises...

We had fun reading this participation story...

Then we sorted cards as we learned about the differences between tortoises and turtles...

Mother Goose provided us with the following supplies to make a tortoise craft...

I thought the kids did an excellent job making their own tortoise bodies...

The kids played this coloring matching game with tortoise game boards, and our color measuring cubes Mother Goose provided for us this month...

The kids also completed their monthly journals!

The Mojave Desert...

One of our Mother Goose lesson last week was about the Mojave Desert...

The kids used some brown sand to complete the brown page in their monthly journal...

Mother Goose provided us with more sentence building words, and sight word arrows for our library area.

Mother Goose also provided us with this new storybook...

...and these new storytelling pieces to go along with the book...

Being that we were limited in resources this week due to the move, we were unable to complete this fun science activity.  Maybe some of you can complete this one at home over the break...

Mother Goose provides us with the following supplies for us to pretend to pan for gold.  Unfortunately, they did not provide enough rocks for everyone.

I had one volunteer paint the rocks that we were given with a gold glitter paint...

Then we added our remaining brown sand to a pan with water.  I added the gold rocks and a few pie tins.  The kids took turns playing with this!  It was messy, but a lot of fun!

The Great Pyramid...

On Tuesday this week our Mother Goose lesson was all about the Great Pyramid...

We reviewed our ABBACC pattern on our calendar...

We practiced an ABBACC movement pattern too!

We sang, "Can You Build a Pyramid?" to the tune of "Do You Know the Muffin Man?"

Mother Goose provided us with the following supplies to make a 3D pyramid out of paper!  I ended up saving the sand for a few different activities, because all of my other sand is boxed away already.

The kids loved sponge painting with the rectangular shaped sponges!

We will play with the pyramids once they dry.

Where is a good place to draw?  What happens if you draw on the wall?  Many pyramids in Egypt have small pictures called hieroglyphics drawn on the wall.  These pictures tell ancient stories.  I set up this new writing station with our hieroglyphics poster, sand on a tray, and a Popsicle stick...

Mother Goose provided the kids with this new pyramid design station!

The kids also used the connecting cubes to play this new color stacking scorpion game that Mother Goose provided as well.

Later on I saw the game and cubes being used in a different way.  I love seeing the kids explore with the materials provided and use them to suit their interests!

The kids completed this page in their monthly journal...

Our book for the day...

The kids continued to play our new canteen counting board game in the afternoon...

Busy building pyramids at the light table...

This sweetie pie brought me pussy willows!  It is her tradition in her family to do so every spring.  They believe it bring happiness to whomever receives them!  They definitely made me happy, and the kids LOVED touching and looking at them!

Lot's of block play in the afternoon...