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.
