When Learning Something Sparks New Curiousity About Everything

This week, we wrapped up our unit on My Amazing Body with Mother Goose Time. We have touched on everything from our senses to our bones, and our heads to our feet. For us, this unit sparked a strong newfound interest in the brain. He wants to know how our brains work, what we do to make our brains work, what our brains do with out us realizing and how our brains can work differently from one another.

This is one of the reasons why I love Mother Goose Time. It propels new interests and creates questions in a natural way. My son and I both created a self-portraits from simple materials in the Mother Goose Time kit, but then it prompted to ask why I had made myself with a blue shirt, because I wasn't wearing a blue shirt at the time. I told him that my interests and likes influence how I portrayed myself. He then went full blown orange explosion on his self-portrait. My son often sees the world in a literal way and relies on those around him following rules and being predictable. I'm glad that I was able to have an conversation with him about using my mind and imagination to create a picture of myself that made me happy. It was organic.

We also worked on fine motor lacing and pattern cards with the monthly manipulatives. Because we were already talking about our brains and bodies, I used this as an opportunity to explain that these are fun ways to teach are brains to do things that will help us grow faster and smarter. I also talked about how my body and my son's might work a little differently. He might have a stronger memory and I might run faster.

After that, it was full on questions about the brain, our senses and why we like different things or do things differently. I utilized two extra Usborne books to delve a bit deeper. We looked at a lift the flap book called, Look Inside Your Body and the sticker book called, My First Book About Me. The first really spoke to the scientific part of my son's mind. He loved seeing inside of the body and seeing how everything is interconnected. He was fascinated to know that our brain sends signals to our heart to beat or our lungs to breathe, without us having to think about it all day. He enjoyed labeling body parts and talking about our feelings in the sticker book.

Overall, we had a fabulous month delving inside My Amazing Body with Mother Goose Time. We were so lucky to have received this month's box in exchange for sharing our honest, personal experience.