The Letter G: Part 2

If you missed the first part of this unit, you can see what we did over here.

Our G unit consisted of learning about the letter G and the sound it makes, but it was also unit about goats and one of three units on farm animals.

After reading several books about goats to Banana Bear and Princess, I had Banana Bear draw a picture of something she learned about goats.  I also had her write a sentence about her picture.  I love seeing how she spells phonetically! (You can see my translation below her sentence.)

Since our Letter G and goat unit is one of three units about farm animals, the MFW curriculum had us make stick puppets of farm animals.  I thought it would be really fun for Banana Bear to put on a puppet show to Old MacDonald.  She had a blast!  

While learning about goats and farm animals, we practiced the names of baby farm animals.  Banana Bear made a book using a worksheet from MFW.  On each page, she paired the adult with the baby. And (with much drama) she wrote a simple sentence on each page: "A _______ is  a baby ________."

Since we were learning about goats, I thought we would try some goat's milk cheese.  I gave the children some goats milk cheese and a little bit of mozzarella for comparison.  They loved it!  It was a really fun way for them to compare and contract items.

Our unit would not have been complete with out another tactile activity for the girls to partake in!  So we made glitter G's.  I chose to use glitter because glitter starts with G and helps to solidify the sound that G makes, especially for Princess.

On our last day of the unit, we read The Year At Maple Hill Farm by Alice and Martin Provensen.  It was a really great book, and we were able to use it as the starting place for a lot of different topics.  After we read the book, we went through the book for a second time and listed off all of the animals that we saw in the book.  Then we separated the animals into two different groups: farm animals and wild animals.

After discussing the animals, we discussed the different months of the year. Banana Bear had a really fun time when I got down my calendar and we went through the year month by month discussing the holidays.  

After we discussed the holidays and months of the year, Banana Bear painted a picture from the book.  She had the most fun painting.  She loves to paint!

And that concluded our G-g-goat unit.  We had so much fun, and the girls learned so much!