What's In The Box - Going on Safari

January’s box is here!

Our MotherGoose Time curriculum for January is called the “Going on Safari”.

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.

Each month, Mother Goose Time will also provides fun manipulatives for the month. These are the items included in this month’s packet. 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. Inside this bag we received items like the Friendly bee hive piece, 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 Celebration of Peace celebration kit. It comes with a teacher guide and a bunch of things to play games and make crafts with. These celebration kits are so much 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 “Giraffe’s Can’t Dance”.

You’ll get a new My Little Journal each month too. This month kids will be learning about the color yellow, oval shape, numbers nine and ten, and letters E, Z, and S.

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.

 

Here are some of the games and crafts that we will be working on this month.

Here’s an example of one day’s supplies and activities. 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 Going on Safari

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

Come join us in all the fun! February’s theme will be “Food and Fitness”.

Stars

Week 4 of our Mother Goose Time’s “Sights & Sounds of Winter” theme was about light and dark.

Here’s some of the things we covered on Star day.

We talked about what stars look like at night.

Circle Time activities!

Our first activity for the day was making a Starlight Wand!

Miss M decorated her star how she wanted and we put it together with the piece of cellophane and attached it to our craft stick to make it a wand.

Our next activity was called Singing Stars.

I took our rhyme time poster and covered the pictures with sticky notes. We would remove a sticky note and identify the animal or person under it. Then we’d read the rhyme and remove another sticky note. We continued to reread the rhyme and remove sticky notes until all the sticky notes were gone.

We also practiced counting to 8 using our number 8 counting card and some star counters we were provided with.

I put the card on the floor and tried to get Miss M to toss eight stars onto the counting card. When we were finished, we’d count how many landed on the counting card.

Here are a couple more activities we did from our Little Goose teacher guide.

Santa's Workshop Celebration

In December, Mother Goose Time gave us an awesome little Santa’s Workshop celebration kit!

We had lots of fun with this.

These extra little kits are really great and have all sorts of things included with them. It came with a little teacher guide for the day and materials for games and crafts that can be used with a wide range of ages. The invitations are so stinkin cute!

Here’s the teacher guide. It gives info for all the crafts and activities.

We started off with circle time. We sang a little song about Santa to the tune of “London Bridge” and we read the story “’Twas the Night Before Christmas.”

Pics of some of the activities we did! It was a very fun day :)

Fireplace

Week 3 of our Mother Goose Time’s “Sights & Sounds of Winter” theme was about sights and sounds found indoors.

Here’s some of the things we covered on Fireplace day.

We talked about where a safe place to build a fire would be.

Circle Time activities!

Our first activity for the day was sewing a stocking!

First we talked about why we might hang our stockings on the fireplace.

Then, I gave Miss M the materials for her little stocking and let her decorate it how she wanted to. I helped her write her name on it and had her try to thread the yarn through the holes. She needed a little help at first but then she got it.

We also got out our Mississippi Musicians storybook to read along with our storytelling pieces.

 

I gave Miss M a storytelling piece and then I retold a simplified version of the story. I’d give her a one-step direction for where to put the piece (for example: “Put the dog next to the house.”)

Here are a couple more activities we did from our Little Goose teacher guide.