Educational Learning For Toddlers: Week Five

New Words For Week 5 Are: Up, And, and Big


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


Supplies Needed For This Weeks Projects: 
Index cards, Foam book, Foam Letters, Cardboard, White Sheets of Paper, Construction Paper, Post-It Notes, Card Stock, Pictures of big and small items, foam leaves, crayons, glue, black marker, potatoes, paint, pictures of things that go together like milk and cookies, cat and dog, socks and shoes,etc.

Child's First Book

1. Make sure to add three new sentences to your Child's First Book.
2. For the word Up, I wrote: The bat/The bat flew up/The bat flew up in the tree.
3. For the word And, I wrote: My cat/My cat and dog/My cat and dog sat on mom.
4. For the word Big, I wrote: There is/There is a Big/There is a big tree in the yard.

Index Card Project:

1. Write the words Up, And and Big on index cards.
2. On the other side glue a picture of that word or have them draw a picture.
3. You should have a nice pile of words now.

 Key-chain Index Cards:

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

Go Fish Game:

• Remember to add their words to their Go Fish Game.  

Little Foam Books:

• After adding the words to your new little foam books, your child will have 5 books to practice in now.
• Make sure to keep your child practicing writing their words.

Post-It Note Game:

1. Place each letter from their words on separate pieces of post-it notes.  For example: On one post-it note write the letter B, on a second post-it note write the letter I and on a third piece of post-it note write the letter G.  Do this with the rest of the words.
2. Then, place the post-it notes all around the house.  Make sure not to stick the words close together.
3. Then, have your child try to find as many words as they can.  
4. Have them place the post-it notes on a door to keep them together.

Big and Small:

1. Find different pictures that are big and small.  Like a picture of a big and small dog, or a big house and small house. 
2. Glue the pictures onto a piece of paper, let dry.
3. Show the pictures to your child and have them point out the Big pictures and have them spell out the word Big, and write the word Big underneath the big pictures.(1)

AND:

1. Search in magazines or print out pictures of things that go together like Jack and Jill, cat and mouse, peas and carrots, hat and coat, etc.
2. On a piece of paper put one picture like Milk  on one side and Cookies on the other.
3. In the center of the two pictures draw a line so your child can write the word AND on it. Instead of just a line, you can draw an upper line and lower line and little lines down the middle as if they were writing on lined paper or just glue some lined paper on.
4. Have them say Milk then write the word And then say the word cookies.  
5. After they are done, you can tell teach them the nursery rhyme  Jack and Jill and have them color a picture of them.(1)
6. Coloring page click here
7. For words to the nursery rhyme, origins and history click here. 

 Up, Up and Away:

1. Go on a nature walk and look for small leaves, big enough to write on with a black marker.  Or you can use small silk leaves, foam leaves, construction paper leaves.
2. Have your child draw a Big tree on a piece of construction paper.  
3. Glue leaves onto the tree, falling off the tree and on the ground.
4. On the leaves falling off the tree write the word Up on them, using a black marker.
5. On the leaves on the ground you or your child can write the word Down.  
6. On the leaves on the tree, you or your child can write the word On.
7. Let your child finish decorating their picture.
8. Ask your child what the words say and if they understand them.  
9. Hang their picture up so they can see it and so you can ask them about it every once in awhile. 
10. To have their picture last longer, don't use real leaves.  They will eventually fall apart.(1) 

Shape Learning:

• I spy: Look for shapes around the house, yard or magazines
• Driving shape game.  On a piece of paper, draw all the shapes on the paper.  Had the paper to your child and tell them to try to find all the shapes on the paper.  They can use a crayon to make a check mark on the ones they have found. You can laminate the paper if you want to use it again. Shapes you can use:  Square, circle, diamond, octagon, rectangle, square, triangle, star, heart, crescent, oval, cone
• For snacks ideas try serving shaped crackers or cookies, food. Like Ritz crackers(round), club crackers(rectangle), oreos(round), sponge bob crackers(square), Triscuit(square), wheat thins(square), bugle(cone), cheese slices(square), bread(square), bananas(cut for round), lucky charms, pizza(triangle), graham crackers(rectangles), egg in toast.  Cut out a circle in the bread.  Then place the bread into a greased hot pan and crack an egg in the circle and cook.  If you would like you can have a shape day.  Like on Sunday, you can have all snacks or foods that are Square shaped.
• Hide and Seek Shapes: Hide different shapes around the house and have your children find them. Can you post-it notes here.
• Potato Stamps: Cut a potato in half.  On each half of the potato, cut out a 3-D shape like a star.  Then have your child put the potato into paint and use them as stamps.  Can put these shapes on a shirt and you child can have their own shape shirt.  Make sure its not washable paint.

For printable crafts, work pages and coloring books click here

Red Square Red Square What do you see?
Submitted by Verlona
Red square sees a green circle looking at me
green circle sees a orange triangle
orange triangle sees a blue rectangle
blue rectangle sees a purple heart
purple heart sees a yellow star
yellow star sees a black diamond
black diamond sees _______ looking at me ( you add the child's name)

http://www.hummingbirded.com/shapes.html

Books

• Pancakes, Crackers, and Pizza: A Book of Shapes by Marjorie Eberts and Margaret Gisler, Children's Press
• Shapes and Colors by Denise Lewis Patrick, Western
• Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban, Greenwillow
• Brown Rabbit's Shape Book by Alan Baker
• Spot Looks At Shapes by Eric Hill
• So Many Circles, So Many Squares by Tana Hoban
• The Secret Birthday Message by Eric Carle

(1) I found these ideas, and added my own twist, in the workbook "Sight Word Fun, Grade 1" by School Zone. I bought mine at Wal-Mart in the toy-book section. Its not just for first graders my preschooler loves it. 

Educational Learning For Toddlers: Week Five