Hens and Geese

A year ago or so my mother was invited to a craft store closing that offered free materials to teachers.  We picked up a bunch of these little hens and geese thinking surely they would come in handy sometime.  They are shaped from styrofoam and covered with feathers.  I pulled them out today and found a couple of good uses for them.

First Blake combined them with our sandpaper letters.  Since he is still learning to identify numerals I combined this with a three period lesson.

Next we created a sorting game.  He participated this morning while his brother had a lesson from his Saxon 1 math. (Yes, I know Montessori does provide a very solid understanding of math but my son just eats it up so we opted to add a little more. So far I have found the K and 1 Saxon lessons to be very hands on and they have fit in with our program very nicely. Plus he LOVES the workbook.) The lesson ended with some Left and Right activities.  So later I explained to Blake that a farmer wanted to divide his poultry into two pens with the geese on the left and the hens on the right.  I used the little fence from our barn and Blake decided the hens needed some eggs as well, also from our barn.  One basket of poultry to be used in several different ways.

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