Doggie, Doggie Where's Your Bone

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 talked about how dogs like to chew bones and how sometimes, they hide their bones.   We all got a turn to wear the dog mask and be the dog.  When we were wearing the dog mask, we would hide our eyes while Teacher Heidi hid the dog bone behind one of the other kids in the circle.  When the dog opened his/her eyes, we tapped our knees while we chanted, "Doggie, doggie where's your bone?".  The dog moved around the circle asking kids, "Do you have my bone?"  If we had the bone, we said "YES" if we didn't have the bone, we said "NO" and the dog would then ask someone else.  If some of our friends sitting in the circle had a hard time using words to ask the "Do you have my bone?" question or to answer "yes or no", they were able to use the BigMac switch to help them.   

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.