Mother Goose Time is a professionally planned preschool curriculum that offers monthly packets of theme based hands-on activities and arts and crafts, providing a balance of important preschool skill experiences for 2 1/2 to 5 year old children.
The complete, ready to use, preschool curriculum includes easy to use activity directions, quality materials, time-saving precut projects and much more... all designed to be educational and entertaining for the child, affordable and time-saving for the Child Care provider and informative and reassuring for the parent.
Mother Goose Time curriculum fulfills the Head Start Domain Elements, Standards and Indicator guidelines, and is consistent with the National Association for the Education of Young Children guidelines for curriculum content.
Songs, finger plays, stories, movement activities, games all related to a weekly theme. We also spend some time working on a social skill every week.
Shaving cream, mix colors, textures, beans, rice, raw oatmeal, dry pasta...the possibilities are endless.
Preschoolers are PRE-readers and PRE-writers. Children are provided with activities that give them the skills they need BEFORE they learn to read and write. These skills strengthen small muscles, reinforce left to right eye movement and build language skills. Puzzles, pattern blocks, file folder games, magnetic numbers and letters, matching/memory games, geoboards, lacing buttons, and many more unstructured activities are available to children. We also work on classification, sorting, patterning, counting, and recognizing numerals.
The creative art projects the children do encourage self-expression. Our activities are process-oriented (rather than product-oriented) and open-ended.
Our science and discovery activities revolve around our weekly theme. Children are able to experience things like a butterfly hatching from its chrysalis, watching a tadpole become frog, and watching seeds grow into plants. The children may also experiment with magnets and make a cyclone in a soda bottle.
Each week, the children learn a new letter. The children are involved in various activities that incorporate their senses. For example, we might do crayon rubbings over a sandpaper S or glue beans on a B.
Several times a week, we work on using scissors.
The children learn about reading and writing by being involved in several activities such as shared reading, following recipes, morning message, making books, journal writing, rhyming games, show & tell and using various materials to be involved in writing.
7:30am to 8:45am .......... Breakfast
8:45am to 9:00am .......... Free Time
9:00am to 9:15am .......... Circle Time
9:15am to 9:45am .......... Creative Art
9:45am to 10:00am .......... Snack
10:00am to 10:30am .......... Letter/Math Activities
10:30am to 11:00am .......... Puzzles/Play Dough/Sensory Activity
11:00am to 11:30am .......... Indoor/Outdoor Play
11:30am to 12:00pm .......... Lunch
12:00pm to 12:30pm .......... Story Time
12:30pm to 2:30pm .......... Nap Time
2:30pm to 3:00pm .......... Snack
3:00pm to 4:50pm .......... Indoor/Outdoor Play
5:00pm to 5:30pm .......... Goodbye Circle
*For an extra fuel charge we do pick up to Child’s Way Pre-School and Prince Of Peace.