Category: Mother Goose Time

Preschool: Literacy Scavenger Hunt

leslie February 1, 2018 0 Comments
We finished our dinosaur unit today with a literacy activity that Mother Goose Time sends each month.  It's called Word Puzzles.  MGT sends some words with blanks for missing letters and using little word cards, the child recognizes which letter should go in the blank. How can you tie in dinosaurs into this activity?Using the Teacher Guide, MGT suggested to remind learners that as...

Home School Lesson: EMPATHY

leslie January 27, 2018 0 Comments
The Golden Rule:Treat others how you want to be treated.One of the perks of being an only child is things are usually your way.There's not anyone else you have to share with or take turns.  It's your game.  Your way.A child can become spoiled quickly being an only child which my girl was for 3.5 years.  Instilling a spoiled, entitled attitude was and is one of my biggest...

Live Unboxing of February’s Small World and Experience God

leslie January 27, 2018 0 Comments
I decided to try to go live on Facebook this past week and show the awesomeness that is Mother Goose Time.  In the video below, I show you an up close look at the 20 daily bags that come in this February's Small World Unit.  We are jet-setters this month yall!I can't wait to dig in with my girl!Below is another video showing you the Experience God curriculum pack. During the month...

Preschool Dinosaur Activities

leslie January 22, 2018 2 Comments
Dinosaur Week!This past week we studied 6 different dinosaurs with our Dinosaur Dig unit from Mother Goose Time.  We studied: Tyrannosaurs Rex, Brontosaurus, Stegasours, Triceratops, Mussaurus, and Pterodactyl.Tyrannosaurs RexThe first dinosaur we studied was of course T-Rex.  This day we received her My Little Journal and for the first time she wrote her name all on her own without...

Preschool Paleontologist

leslie January 11, 2018 0 Comments
Paleontologist.That's what my little girl became last week as we opened our newest box from Mother Goose Time: Dinosaur Dig!For our first 4 days of home school preschool, we studied paleontologists, bones, fossils, and excavation sites. With her name tag, I wrote her name, and she used a glue bottle to trace her letters.  She did really great! Honestly, I was surprised.  Then using...

Mother Goose Time and the NICU

leslie December 28, 2017 0 Comments
On December 1, 2017 at 1:35 in the afternoon, my husband and I welcomed our newest addition to our family, a baby boy we named Everett Ryan.Everett was due on Christmas Eve; however, he had decided to grace the world with his presence at 36 weeks and 5 days.  He was 6 pounds 7 oz and 20 inches long, and I can't imagine how much bigger he would be with an additional 3 weeks. I never would...

I Can Read: Creating Sentences

leslie November 28, 2017 0 Comments
My girl loves to read.If you decide to sit on the floor, she will find you, crawl into your lap and ask to read a book.Each month we get one of these I Can Read books from Mother Goose Time.I have been trying to find more ways to use it than just for reading, though.MGT sends arrows and rectangles with the sight words on it along with 6 pictures of real images of certain things discussed in the...

An Upside Down Day: Understanding Sloths

leslie November 27, 2017 0 Comments
We are wrapping up our Rain forest Adventure unit from Mother Goose Time this week.Today we studied sloths.Our MGT starts the same everyday:Calendar (practicing counting to 30!)Day of the week word matchingWeatherTopic Poster (sloth)Find the topic in our theme poster (if applicable)Read the book of the dayToday's book is by Eric Carle:It didn't take Sweet Pea long to start reciting with me some...

S is for Serpent

leslie November 23, 2017 0 Comments
We've been battling sickness around here...stuffy noses, hacking coughs, and constant snuggle time make for long days.However even during the struggle of these days, it is so nice to break open a Mother Goose Time bag and explore the new items that make learning so much fun.Snake day was just what both my girl and this momma needed, and it was perfect to tie in a lesson from our Experience God...

Make and Play: Taking Learning Home

leslie November 11, 2017 0 Comments
I am so impressed with the math skills my 3 year old is learning thanks to the help of Mother Goose Time.  Last year, when Sweet Pea was 2, we usually skipped out on the Make and Play crafts that were in our unit kit.  This year though, we are not skipping them!Here's why:  1. The Make and Play's can be great games to take home and reinforce concepts...like math! Last...