What's In The Box? - On The Go

Our Mother Goose Time curriculum for November is called “On the Go”. We will be learning about traffic signs, maps, and all kinds of things that have to do with transportation.

The first bag in our box was the Teacher Tool bag. Inside this bag is the theme web poster, teacher guides, gathering list, skills overview chart, manipulatives, and the monthly CD.

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

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.

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, Mother Goose Time will also provides fun manipulatives for the month. These are the items included in this month’s packet. Miss M loved the little busses we got with last month’s curriculum so I know this month’s manipulatives will be a big hit too. They’re so cute. Mother Goose Time includes a 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.

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 piece, the November monthly calendar and day pieces, Global friends pictures to go along with our world map, letter flags, monthly theme poster, and lots more.

This month, we also received a Thanksgiving celebration kit. It comes with a teacher guide and a bunch of things to play games and make crafts with. It looks like it will be a lot of fun.

This month, I added the Dance ‘N Beats, Little Goose Guide, and Experience God addons to our curriculum.

Here’s a look at one day’s activities in the Little Goose teacher guide.

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 Ride for Duck”.

You’ll get a new My Little Journal each month too. This month kids will be learning about the color orange, triangle shape, numbers five and six, and letters C, W, and T.

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.

This month we also received this super cute Rhyme Time poster for The Wheels on The Bus.

Here’s an example of one day’s supplies and activities. This is Day 4. 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 On The Go

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

Come join us in all the fun! December’s theme will be Sights & Sounds of Winter.

Pumpkin Patch Party!

In October, Mother Goose Time gave us an awesome little Pumpkin Patch Celebration Kit!

We put together a little party and had a blast.

These extra little kits are really great and have all sorts of things included with them. I also decided to look up some other ideas for some games to play in addition to all the great games and activities that Mother Goose Time came up with too. They also come with their own little teacher guide, invitations, thank you notes, and materials for games and crafts that can be used with a wide range of ages. Here are some of the items included with our kit.

Here’s the teacher guide

 

Super cute invitations!

Coloring page

Pumpkin Counting game

Here’s a little bag full of items for our crafts/games.

They even included a little recipe card for a snack for the little ones to make too! :) It was really yummy

The first thing we did was sit down to do a little circle time song and finger play poem. Miss M loved doing these.

Next, we played beware of the bat game. You’re supposed to play this game by hiding the cards under the paper bag pumpkins in your “pumpkin patch” you make with the kiddos. Since it was just Miss M and we hadn’t gotten to that activity yet…

I just spread the cards out on the floor and Miss M kinda just made her own game with these and the pumpkin counting game cards. She had fun matching the cats to the pumpkins. Well trying to anyways lol.

There was also a pin the patch on the scarecrow game included. We didn’t get around to playing this one but we can always do it another day :)

We were also given items to do a Pumpkin Pounding activity and Pumpkin Seed Search.

Next, Miss M put on her Halloween costume and we played a few other games that mommy came up with for our little party.

We played Pumpkin Bowling

Witch Ring Toss

Balloon Catch

And we played Halloween Eyeball Bounce

We had so much fun with this celebration kit! We’re definitely looking forward to the next ones to come.