The planning guide is amazing. Inside it has a theme web page for each week. I love this because I can show it to the children and they know exactly what we are talking about that week. For my younger ones they can see the pictures that are with the words. Then, there is a page of learning objectives and overview. This section breaks down what it in the lesson plans: community challenge, language/literacy, math and reasoning, creative arts, steam stations, storytime, and music and movement. Next, there is a weekly planning section for field trips, videos or events. After, you have steam stations and how to sit them up and questions to ask to build upon learning. Then, there comes about each day broken down into detail in each area. What Mother Goose Time even takes care of writing the adaptions down and how to do some of them for each activity. Finally, they have a benchmark page to see where and what each child should be doing around this age group and level. (I use this as a guide only as each child needs and abilities are on their own levels.
I love that since using Mother Goose Time, I'm able to focus on what is important the child and their development. Before, I would spend hours planning for the week. Now, I spend a few hours and I have everything set out for the whole month using organizer system with my MGT. This, allows me to gather all the extra materials from the list MGT gives me and but them in my daily organizer. This allows me to on that day not be going to many places to get all my materials. They are already ready and easy for us to access where it is time. Which, allows me to spend more time playing and interacting and observing the children in their day.
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Here is a look at all the great fun we had this week.
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