Nature Detectives, Learning with Themes

I love that Mother Goose Time uses thematic learning.  I can't wait to start next months nature detectives theme.

Every month has a new theme and each day has a different topic related to the theme.  When our box arrives each month the girls are so excited to get it open and see what we will be learning about.  Addie loves to find out what our new theme will be.

I love that all month long we will be learning about one theme, it's a great way to increase knowledge on a subject and makes it easy to add on to the individual topics that interest the girls the most.  All month long we will be making crafts, cooking, reading books, completing science experiments, playing games and signing songs that all relate to nature.  Hopefully the weather will continue to be nice so we can take a lot of the lessons outside.  Each day comes with a topic poster and is in its own bag so it is super easy to pack up and go.  I put the topic poster on our circle time display and when we start our day we talk about what we will be learning about.  All the lessons for the day revolve around the daily topic, while also relating back to the monthly theme.  Using thematic learning is a great way to reinforce what has already been learned and you can tie something learned on one day into topics on the following days. 

Day 2 bag

fun activities all month

book of the month

There are also add ons avaialbe which also are theme based.  I use the Little Goose book with Elli and Addie gets the more math and reading workbooks.  These resources are a great way to tailor the lessons to your childs ability.

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