What's In The Box - "Nature Detectives"

Mother Goose Time’s July curriculum is called “Nature Detectives”. We will explore the sights and sounds of our natural environment as we create nature-based art. We will investigate, discover and experiment in the outdoors as we work on our observation skills and become “nature detectives”.

Here is a picture of the theme web for this month. It shows the different subjects that will be covered each week/day and how they relate to the main theme.

Each month in your teacher’s tool bag you’ll receive a Teacher Guide and a Planning Journal.

 



I’ve also added the Little Goose teacher guide supplement to our curriculum that we receive each month. It’s a great teacher guide that helps me adjust the activities for my 2 year old and make it easier for her to participate.

 

I also chose to add the Experience God add-on to our curriculum as well.



 

Also included is a Skills Overview chart and Gathering List. The chart shows all the different skills that the children will be performing with all the different activities. The gathering list is great too. It shows all the supplies that will be needed for the month.

Each month you’ll receive a new cd with songs that go along with the month’s theme.

You’ll get a new themed calendar for the month too.

This month we were also provided with a super cool, Top Secret Nature Detective Kit!

 

You’ll also be provided with a monthly family newsletter that you can give to parents of your kiddos. It shows some of the things that the kids will be learning as well as suggestions of books to read and family activities.

There’s also 20 premade packets stuffed with pretty much everything you’ll need as well as bonus days. This month I noticed we didn’t receive any bonus day materials in our actual box, but I found them online in the Member Resources area for you to print out. There are actually 3 bonus days for this month: Celebrations & Parades, Independence Day, and Ice Cream Day. It kinda bummed me out because of course of all times, Miss M broke my printer so I wasn’t able to print any of these out for us to do L.

You’ll receive a new story time book each month. This month is a really neat book called “Get Close to Nature!”

It’s a guessing book where on the first two pages, is a picture that asks “What Am I?” for you to guess and then when you turn the page…

 It shows you what it is and says “I Am A (____)!”

You’ll get a new My Little Journal each month too. This month we received a “My Nature Collection” booklet. Kids will be reviewing letters and colors as well as putting pictures of nature items in there.



 



You’ll also get a new I Can Read book. In it, they’ll practice the month’s sight words and they’re displayed on the back of the book as well.

 

Games!! Little ones get to play lots of different and fun games to help with their learning as well. Here are some of the games that we will be playing this month.

Here’s an example of one day’s supplies and activities. This is Day 2. There are so much more great things included with this month’s curriculum! In addition to all these, children will:

·         Experience over 125 activities

·         Sing and move to 30 songs

·         Create 20 of their own projects in Art, Math, and Literacy

·         Build 33 skills over 7 domains

·         Learn 20 different topics related to Nature

Come join us in all the fun! Next month’s theme will be Fables and Folktales.