Educational Learning For Toddlers: Week Four

New Words For Week Four Are : Dad, Tree, and The

Combine these three new words with: Cat, Dog, My, Bat, Log, Sat, On, Mom


Supplies Needed For This Weeks Projects: 
Index cards, Foam book, Foam Letters, Cardboard, White Sheets of Paper, Construction Paper, Post-It Notes, Card Stock

Child's First Book

1. Make sure to add three new sentences to your Child's First Book.
2. For the word Dad, I wrote: My Dad/My Dad saw a/ My Dad saw a cat up a tree.
3. For the word Tree, I wrote: Three bats/Three bats flew into/Three bats flew into a tree.
4. For the word The, I wrote: The four dogs/The four dogs sat in/The four dogs sat in the sun.

Index Card Project:

1. Write the words DAD, TREE, and THE on index cards.
2. On the other side glue a picture of that word or have them draw a picture.
3. Put these with their other ones and keep quizzing them.

Key-chain Index Cards:

• Don't forget to add these 3 new words to your key-chain cards.

Little Foam Books:

• After adding the words to your new little foam books, your child will have 4 books to practice in now.
• How is your child doing with writing their words.

Picture Learning Fun:

• Find pictures of the all the 11 words they are learning so far or draw them.
• Glue the pictures on a sheet of white paper on one side of the paper.
• On the other side of the paper,  write the beginning letter of each word, out of order.
• Have your child draw a line from the picture to right beginning letter.  
• For example:Dog matches with the letter D.

Learning Shapes:

Shape Practice:

Supplies Needed:  Crayon, plain white paper

1. Draw little dots to make each shape.  
2. Have your child connect the dots to make the shape.

Yarn Shape Art:

Supplies Needed: Construction Paper, Yarn, Glue

1. First draw a shape on each construction paper, using a marker or pen.  Square, Diamond, Rectangle, Circle, Triangle, Heart, Octagon, Star, Oval
2. Next, cut yarn long enough to fit around each shape.
3. Give your child the paper and yarn and have them glue the yarn on the lines you drew.
4. Make sure to tell them what each shape is and to write each shape on the paper.
5. You could make a book like you did with your Child's First Book for their shapes.

Art With Shapes:

Supplies Needed: Construction paper, glue, crayons

1. Cut out several different shapes, all sorts of sizes and colors out of construction paper.
2. You could draw the shapes on the paper and let your child cut out the shapes.
3. Next, have your child pick out a piece of construction of any color.
4. Tell your child that they can make a picture of their liking using only the shapes they have. 
5. My child made a tree, she used a brown rectangle for the trunk, a big green circle for the top part of the tree and glued little red circles on the green circle for apples.
6. Next, she made a house.  She used a square for the main part of the house. A triangle for the roof and little squares on the house for windows.
7. You can also make animals too.  She made a dog using a long rectangle for the body, a circle for the head, a little triangle for the ear, a small circle for the nose, and little rectangles for the legs. They can add little touches like an eye, mouth and tail with a crayon or use very small circles.
8. She also used a big yellow circle for the sun.
9. You may also make a book from the different pictures for them to tell a story.

For more great practice pages and crafts click here

Book For About Shapes:

• Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh
• Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban
• Shape(Math Counts) by Henry Arthur Pluckrose
• A Circle Here, A Square There: My Shapes Book by David Diehl
• Shapes and Colors (Preschool) (Step Ahead) by Susan J. Schneck
• Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert
• Icky Bug Shapes by Jerry Pallotta
• Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns

Great Videos for Learning:

• Preschool Prep Series DVD's Click Here

Songs about Shapes: 

• Can Teach click here
• Preschool Education website 

Educational Learning For Toddlers: Week Four