Doggie, Doggie Where's Your Bone??

This week for Large Group, we played the game Doggie, Doggie Where's Your Bone?

This game helped us work on using the /d/ sound in words.  It also helped us work on asking and answering "wh" and "yes/no" questions.  We sat in a circle and one person got to be the doggie.  The doggie closed his/her eyes while Teacher Heidi gave the bone to another one of our preschool friends to hide.  When doggie opened his/her eyes, we all chanted, "Doggie, doggie where's your bone?".  Doggie had to go around asking his friends, "Do you have my bone?".  If we had the bone, we responded "yes" if we didn't have the bone, we responded "no".  We all got a turn to be doggie.  If some of our preschool friends didn't have enough words to ask "Do you have my bone?", they used the Big Mac with the phrase recorded on it.

You can play this game at home by hiding an object and using questions to get hints on where the object might me.  This will help your child work on attributes (it's under something red or big) and prepositions (it's on, next to, under, behind etc..).  This will also help your child work on asking questions and answering questions.