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 and using the word "not". We talked about how dogs like to chew bones and how sometimes, they hide their bones.   We sat in a circle and closed our eyes while teacher Heidi hid the dog bone. The dog bone was hidden in a bag, under a blanket or in a box. When we opened our eyes, we all chanted, "Doggie, doggie where's your bone?".  We each got a turn to guess if the bone was in the box, under the blanket or in the bag.  If we guessed right, we would say "yes", the bone was in the bag.  If we guess wrong, we would say,  "no" the bone was not in the bag.   

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.