Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Literature Based Learning.....Plugging away at learning are letters through one of Mason's favorite books, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. After years of not being able to find them (I think I've looked since I got out of College) Walmart finally started carrying them! We did this project with my kindergartners and it was a big hit. Was true for Mason too....I made the coconut tree and then as we went over the different letters we pulled/spilled out of the box Mason picked which ones he wanted to put up in his coconut tree. We of course read the book a few times learned a few letters and ate a lot of cereal!

The Very Busy Mason

Literature based learning.....
Busy Spider by Eric Carle, supplies to make a spider web and spider stickers. Very Spooky!

Mason is one of those kids who does his best learning while ACTIVE. So we went on a nature walk at a local park and found "Nature's Treasures". If you look/think there are many different things to learn about in nature. Just a few we discussed on our walk were the obvious ones like colors (trees, leaves, flowers,etc...) But we we also talked about how you tell how old a tree is by counting its rings, how and why they fall, how their leaves turn color, their bark, why the ground gets muddy when it rains, how birds talk and make different sounds. You get the point. What helped us notice these things and get the conversation started was once we got to the middle of the woods we sat down on a log and I told Mason we had to sit and not talk so that the woods could talk to us.
....Try it and listen they have a lot to talk to your little ones about. Plus you gotta love the quiet time:)

"M" is for Mason and Maccaroni!

Our big goal this year is to write our name. Since Mason has little interest in this I have tried to come up with a variety of ways to not only write it but learn it. This is a little game you just need to write the letters of their names along with a few that aren't cut the letters up individually and put them in a baby food jar. He chose letters one by one and if he got a letter that was in his name he glued it down and if it was just a random letter it went back in the jar. We did this till he had his whole name glued down.