December’s Mother Goose Time curriculum is called “Sights & Sounds of Winter”. Included in Mother Goose Time’s monthly curriculum is a list of books that coordinate with the month’s theme. This month includes many picture books for children to learn more about the orchestra, sights and sounds found outdoors, sights and sounds found indoors, and light and dark.
Week 1: Orchestra Instruments
Olivia Forms a Band by Ian Falconer
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss
Tubby the Tuba by Paul Tripp
Meet the Orchestra by Ann Hayes
The Jazz Fly by Matthew W. Gallub
Week 2: Sights and Sounds Outdoors
Big Tracks, Little Tracks: Following Animal Prints by Millicent E. Selsam
Ivy’s Icicle: Book Three-Forgiving Others by Gary Bower and Josh McDowell
Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
What Cheer, What Cheer, Says the Cardinal! by Martha Scott
Week 3: Sights and Sounds Indoors
May I Please Have a Cookie by Jennifer Morris
Miss Spider’s Tea Party by David Kirk
A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
No Dragons for Tea by Jean E Pendziwol
Week 4: Light and Dark
One Candle by Eve Bunting
The Sun Is My Favorite Star by Frank Asch
Shadows and Reflections by Tana Hoban
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner