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I started receiving the More Math and More Literacy Workbooks from Mother Goose Time a few months ago. I really like them, but didn't feel like I was using them to their full potential. They are really cute and go with each months theme and work on the skills that I was wanting my son to be practicing. They help to make this program appropriate for my 5 year old, we have only been using them for fun at this point though. Mostly because summer left us feeling like taking it easy on everything and getting outside as much as possible. We have to get the sunshine time in while we got it. Rain will be coming for us again soon. But now that fall is nearing and we are starting to get back into the school groove I started thinking about how I could better use these fabulous workbooks. I decided that it would be best if I could match them up with whatever skill we worked on for the day in our Teachers Guide. Now that does mean a little more planning for me, but Mother Goose Time has all the skills so clearly labeled that it really didn't take any time at all to organize it. Our not back to school day, or maybe I should call it our back to home day will be after labor day on Tuesday September 2. I decided to show you all a sample of how our first week back will look with my new plan. I am only going to focus on the Literacy and Math portions of the day. Mother Goose Time has so many other activities included each day then what I am showing.

Monday- We will have no school Monday because we will be attending the Penny Arcade Festival! This is a huge gaming festival held yearly in Seattle and other cities. It will be our first time attending and my kids have been working on their costumes for it. We are all really excited.

Tuesday- For math we will do the Measure Me activity found in the Teachers Guide and then use the Measure Me activity in the More Math workbook to practice. For literacy I will have him practice writing his name for the My Name activity in the Teachers Guide.



Wednesday- For Math in the Teachers Guide we will do the Tangram body activity and then follow with the Copy the Shape Face in the More Math workbook. We will also use the More Literacy Clothesline Fun activity for practice with following verbal instructions.




Thursday- For math we will do Button Patterns in the Teacher Guide and I will use the Doodle Patterns page from the More Math workbook for more pattern fun. For Literacy we will do the B Ball Roll from the Teachers Guide and then make the My Body Book from the More Literacy workbook where we can find all the B's in the story as well as demonstrate print knowledge. 





Friday- For Math we will do the Body Part Lotto game in the Teachers Guide which will give more practice on patterns and sorting. We will not do a workbook page today for math. For literacy we will do the Handprint Journal activity which will work on emergent writing skills. We will also do the Letter B page in the More Literacy workbook to practice writing, and continue learning about the letter B.



My hope is that we can learn a skill using our Mother Goose Time curriculum and then practice the skill using a workbook page. That way he will have plenty of oppurtunities to learn and practice what he has learned. I think I will like this better then randomly picking pages like we were before. There will be more structure to this and it will hopefully make more sense and help him to better retain information. I will try this out the first week and see how it goes.




*Mother Goose Time has generously provided this curriculum to us in exchange for our stories and honest opinions*



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