Does anyone use a yearly "theme" to tie in all of your curriculum plans for your dc?

I write my own curriculum for my dc, and have for years, but I need help finding a "theme" that I can use all year long. Last year I used "Mother Goose" and tied all of our curriculum activities to a different Mother Goose Rhyme each week. This school year I've just used a "literacy"theme, with all of our activities branching off of the "book of the week". It worked well, but I missed the cohesiveness of having everything tie-in together like the Mother Goose. Any ideas??

I've done the weekly/monthly seasonal themes before, and they've been okay but building on learning week-to-week seems a little disjointed. The kids got SO much out of the year-long-curriculum-theme, I'd like to do another one for next school year, I'm just drawing a blank!

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