On the Go-transportation/MGT

On the Go-Transpotation

This blog is going to be interesting, in the fact that I took pictures with my old phone, uploaded them( I think) and can't find them anywhere on my computer. Hopefully, they turn up so I can post them.

It's October and that means a new box sitting on the porch full of wonderful learning!

October's theme is, you guessed it, On the Go!

My daughter was so excited about the manipulative's that the first thing we did was build a road.

Yes, we made a road out of blue painters tape on the family room rug.

The silly thing is, that having 4 boys, we have a car rug that has streets and buildings already on it.

However, this months manipulative's, included not only a wooden car but also wooden street signs.

So we built our own streets and city.  

They other manipulative that came were small rubber planes and trains. So of course, there had to be an airport and train station.  My daughter remembered that we had buses from a previous month and ran to get those.  So, a bus station was created.

The planes, trains and buses were quickly put into lines and patterns of course because that is how she plays.  Over the years she has become very aware that there are patterns in almost everything-

One great thing Mother Goose does well.

We learned about street signs and what they mean.  We talked about how street signs keep us safe from accidents. 

We also discussed what would happen if you didn't obey the street signs...

traffic jams

accidents

etc.

For art my daughter painted a paper plate yellow.

When it was dry, she cut it in half to use as the top and bottom of her signal traffic light.

With the already pre cut black paper and large stickers, she quickly put together the

rest of the signal light.

A little bit of glue on the paper plates, attached to the rest of the light and 

walla, her very own traffic light.

She also decide to paint the paper cones (traffic cones).

(I really hope I find those photos or this blog will just sound silly)

Art is a wonderful way to use fine and gross motor skills.

For this art project the fine motor skills where...

painting

cutting,

glueing,

opening paint bottle lids

pouring paint

The large motor skills where...

standing up to go get the

scissors,

paint,

glue

and then of course playing with the traffic light.

Also, with this one small art activity we learn about the colors...

Red

yellow

green

and black

the shapes,

circle

rectangle

we learned about opposites ...

top and bottom

So much to learn about in one days activities!

mother goose time