What's In The Box - Friends and Feelings

Our Mother Goose Time curriculum for September is called “Friends and Feelings”. It’s also the start of a new school year!! Yay! We will be learning very important lessons all about friendship, taking turns, understanding differences, and saying sorry.

This is what the box looks like when you first get it.

It’s packed full of awesomeness!!

The first bag you’ll see is the Getting Started pack.

Inside are all sorts of great things, one of which is the Getting Started guide. It talks all about what’s inside the box, how to set up Circle Time and the displays, routines, and so much more.

You’ll also receive classroom display materials such as the investigation station signs, alphabet strip, cloud labels, weather set, Mother Goose and nest, Calendar month labels, circle time CD, and lots more.

The next bag that was in the box was an Open House kit. This is super neat! I’m not sure what we’re going to do with this quite yet but I really love this.

The next bag was the Circle Time bag.

These tools are really great too. Inside this bag we received items like the Friendly bee hive and pieces for it to start out with, the September monthly calendar and day pieces, Global friends pictures to go along with our world map, letter flags, How Do You Feel poster, and lots more.

I LOVE that they thought of putting the lyrics for the Circle Time songs on little cards for us to punch out and put on a little ring (which was also included) so we take them anywhere.

Our next bag was the Teacher Tool bag. Inside this bag is the theme web poster, teacher guides, gathering list, and skills overview chart.

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.

 

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.

This month I also chose to add the Experience God and Dance ‘n Beats add-ons to our curriculum as well.

Each month, Mother Goose Time will also provide a packet with manipulatives for the month. These are the items included in this month’s packet. I have a feeling Miss M is going to just love the little busses! They’re so cute. This month Mother Goose Time has decided to include the monthly CD in with this pack as well. Each month you’ll receive a new CD with songs that go along with the month’s theme.

 

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 are also 20 premade packets stuffed with pretty much everything you’ll need.

You’ll receive a new story time book each month. This month our book is “A Big Problem”.

You’ll get a new My Little Journal each month too. This month kids will be talking about some of their favorite things as well as learning about the color blue, circle shape, numbers one and two, and letters F, P, and K.

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 6. 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 Fables and Folktales

·         Build relationships with each other and the environment and investigate their curiosities

Come join us in all the fun! Next month’s theme will be In The Orchard.