I received a copy of Mary Had a Little Lamb Nursery RhymePreschool unit by Super Mommy to the Rescue to review (she also has other units available that I've heard are great at Currclick!
When I first received
the unit, I printed it out and read through the whole thing. You will see that
the pictures of the unit are in black and white. That is because I was out of
ink for my color printer at the time. The unit is very colorful and I am sure
would be beautiful printed in color. Since I was going to be using it with
three children at the same time and I was low on ink, I decided to put
everything in plastic sleeves and have the girls use wet-erase markers to do
the writing activities. I did decide to laminate the hands-on activities
(except for the traditional puzzles, number puzzles and patterns. I stored most
of the activities in envelopes in the back pocket of the binder. I did decide
to store the tic-tac-toe pieces in the sleeve of the tic-tac-toe board.
I sat down with Cora, Martha & Jaina to do the unit.
While I thought it might be a little “easy” for Cora, I also thought she would
enjoy starting the school year off with a little review from last year. Martha
& Jaina are only four and I’m easing them into Kindergarten work since they
turn five in February. 
The girls enjoyed
listening to the nursery rhyme and then singing it all together. I then had the
girls practice with the pre-writing. I actually gave Cora one of the longer
copies of the rhyme since she already knows how to write her letters. They
enjoyed tracing the letters, wiping it off and trying again.
Martha and Jaina then worked on tracing the lines. They
both did great with the straight lines, but needed extra practice with the
zig-zag lines. Having them using the papers in the plastic sleeves was great
for this because they just wiped them off and tried again. They also worked on
the coloring pages. Again, having them in the plastic sleeves worked well
because they just wiped off what they did and traded papers.
I had Cora work on the
number puzzles while Martha & Jaina were working on their lines. Then they
took turns with the number strip puzzles, 2 part match-ups, and sizing. They
then would pair up and play tic-tac-toe while the other continued to work on
the other “games” and then would switch pairs. All three of them played memory
together. 
I also allowed Cora to
try her hand at the patterns. This was a little hard because the pieces were so
small and she had difficulty seeing what the picture was and picking up the
small pieces to place in the pattern. Because she was having difficulty, I
didn’t have Martha or Jaina attempt it.
When they were done with the other activities, they had fun
putting the puzzles together. I couldn’t figure out a good way to laminate the
puzzle pieces so I just made sure they were careful with the pieces.
Overall, this was a
great unit! The girls had fun (they even asked the next day to do it again!),
Cora strengthen concepts she already knew and was able to practice counting and
number order, and Martha & Jaina began on the journey of learning letters,
numbers, sizing, and matching like items. The only downside I saw was what I
mentioned earlier about the size of the pattern page.
I would recommend this unit to anyone who has little ones.
Even if you don’t home school, you and your children will have fun while
learning at the same time!
Stacie Lewin (Super Mommy to the Rescue) is graciously giving a copy of this unit to 2 of my readers! To enter leave a comment telling me why you want this unit. Giveaway ends Sunday, Sept. 23rd at midnight. I will post the winner before I leave for vacation (we leave on the 26th).
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