Beads

Week 3 of our Mother Goose Time’s “Going on Safari” theme was all about Life in the Grasslands.

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

^ Circle Time activities! We talked about what we can make with beads.

^ Our first activity was Letter Beads. We used beads with one of our letter flags. We’d cover it with beads, name the letter and then repeat the sound of the letter as Miss M would remove one bead at a time.

^ We also practiced our patterns using our shape design mat and our shape beads.

^ Miss M also got to make a fun little bracelet using a pipe cleaner and some beads.

 

^ Concentrating so hard…

^ Our story for today was “Pretty Salma” by Niki Daly

Giraffe

Week 2 of our Mother Goose Time’s “Going on Safari” theme was all about wild safari animals!

 

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

^ We talked about what we know about giraffes.

^ Circle Time activities!

^ To help us with learning our number 10, I printed out a circle time giraffe sheet from the member resources on the Mother Goose Time website and I set out some little gems for Miss M to use. I’d name a number and she’d gather that amount and put them on the paper like spots.

^ Our next activity was making a giraffe portrait.

^ I helped Miss M trace her foot and cut it out for her giraffe head. Then we glued the pieces of our Giraffe to our paper, and she used her finger and brown paint for the spots and the horns. We used some yarn pieces for a mane but she kept taking them off.

 

^ We also played a fun little Giraffe Spots game.

We talked about that all giraffes have a unique pattern of spots.

Then I set out the game and Miss M would draw a card and place that many foam oval spots on the giraffe poster. We would count the spots together to make sure they matched her card. I was very impressed that she was able to identify the number on the cards all by herself.

 

^ Miss M just loves these little animal counters we received with this month’s curriculum!

She had so much fun sorting them first by type and then by color. She’s asked to play with them every single day so far since I showed them to her.

 

^ Our storybook for today was “Giraffes Can’t Dance” by Giles Andreae.

Getting Ready For Safari

This month we’re “Going on Safari” with Mother Goose Time.

^ First we had to make our passport.

^ Miss M had lots of fun rolling the continent cube and then stamping in her passport.

^ Next, we had to pack!

^ We played the Packing List game. I placed the photos in her “suitcase” but I’d leave one out. Then I’d have Miss M try to guess which item was missing.

^ We also had to make our Safari Hat!

 

^ Miss M had fun with this one.

Our story that we read/watched was "We All Went on Safari" by Laurie Krebs

 

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”.