Welcome students to the class with a bulletin board featuring a Mother Goose visual that is replaced with your face. Surround the Mother Goose with little goose visuals labeled with the name of each student in your classroom.
Create an interactive bulletin board that looks like the scene from the classic Mother Goose nursery rhyme "Hickory, Dickory Dock." Fashion a grandfather clock visual with movable hands to help kids with their time-telling skills. Teach kids the words to the rhyme, and then how to count time around the clock, by looking at the short hand on the clock to determine the time. Go through the poem again and ask students what time the mouse ran. Set the clock to a time and ask students to identify the time and if the mouse would run around at that time. For example, in the nursery rhyme, the mouse ran down the clock at 1 o'clock, but if your clock was set to 6 o'clock, the mouse would stay in place.
After exposing students to a variety of Mother Goose poems, let them color a scene from their favorite poem or story. Attach the papers to a coordinating piece of construction paper or card stock and post them on the bulletin board. Title the bulletin board something such as "We love Mother Goose!" or "Our Favorite Mother Goose Poems."
Post a simple bulletin board depicting the most famous words from the poem, "The cow jumped over the moon." Post the cow on black or dark blue background paper jumping over a moon cutout. Add texture to the moon shape by adding glitter or small layers to simulate the craters on the surface of the moon. Keep the board simple or add small visuals of the other characters listed in the story, such as the cat playing the fiddle or the dish and spoon.
Post a picture of Mother Goose wearing a straw hat while standing in on the scene of a farm. Help students identify other farm animals, such as chickens, horses, cows and pigs. Teach students about the importance of each animal on the farm and how it either helps the farmer do work or provides him with food.
Make a bulletin board in the corner of the room to create a special reading corner. Feature a large visual of Mother Goose reading from a book and decorate the board with little book shapes featuring the names of some famous Mother Goose stories or other classic poems that you will read and memorize throughout the year.