Educational Learning For Toddlers: Week Seven

New Words For This Week Are: Love, Fall, Mat

Combine these three new words with: Cat, Dog, My, Bat, Log, Sat, On, Mom, Dad, Tree, The, Up, And, Big, Boat, Down, Sun

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 Green, Orange, Purple items, Foam Sheet, Crayons: Green, Orange, Purple, Foam Sheets, Paint(Red, Blue, Yellow), Egg Carton, Pipe Cleaner, Fruit Loops, Yarn, Marble, Flat Box, Finger Paint(Red, Blue, Yellow), Glue

Child's First Book

1. Make sure to add three new sentences to your Child's First Book.
2. For the word Love, I wrote: I love/ I love my mom/I Love my mom and dad
3. For the word Fall, I wrote: The leaves/The leaves fall off/The leaves fall off the tree.
4. For the word Mat, I wrote: The cat/The cat sat on/The cat sat on the red mat.

When your child is reading their book to you or anyone else, make sure not to just tell your child the words.  Have them spell it out, to see if they can get the word and/or see if they can pronounce it out.

Index Card Project:

1. Write the words Love, Fall, Mat 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.
4. How is your child doing on their words?  If they are struggling with any words, work on those words more than the rest.  Ask them out of the blue, "Hey do you remember how to spell.....?

 Key-chain Index Cards:

• Don't forget to add these 3 new words to your key-chain cards.
• Are you remembering to use these while shopping.

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 7 books to practice in now.
• Do you know where your child's other books are?

Shapes:

• Make a shape book just like the child's first foam book

1. On the first page write round circle, round circle, what do you see?  I see a square box looking at me. Have a picture of a round circle on the page.
2. On the second page write square box, square box what do you see?  I see a triangle looking at me.
3. On third page add another shape like rectangle, oval, octagon, heart
4. Then on last page write I see all the shapes looking at me.  Have a picture of all the shapes from magazines , stickers, stamps or by drawing them.

• What Shape Am I? Cut out shapes out of cardboard.  Have your child put their hands behind their backs and keep them there.  Put a shape in their hands and see if they can figure out the shapes behind their backs.  If, this is hard for them to do,  put the shape under a blanket and without picking see if they can figure out the shape under the blanket.

Colors:

• This week you'll be teaching your child about secondary colors: Green, Orange and Purple.  
• Secondary colors are made when you mix 2 primary colors together.
• Red and Yellow make Orange; Red and Blue make Purple; Yellow and Blue make Green.

• Add to their Foam Color Book: Make a circle with a Orange crayon on the top of page.  In the middle Write the word Orange in the color Orange and then search for something Orange in a magazine and glue it on the bottom of the page. Do this for Purple and Green too.

• Make a  color caterpillar.  

1. Supplies Needed: Cardboard egg carton(cut in half lengthwise make a strip of 6 cups), Paint(red, blue, yellow), 1 pipe cleaner, gogglie eye, glue
2. Put red, blue and yellow in different paint cups. Then in 3 other paint cups mix the other three colors.  Make sure to show your child what happens when you mix the primary colors together to make orange, purple and green.
3. Have your child paint each egg cup a different color.
4. Cut the pipe cleaner to make two antennae for the caterpillar.  Put a little glue on the end of the pipe cleaner and push it through the top of the head.
5. Draw a mouth or glue on a pipe cleaner for the mouth.
6. Glue on gogglie eyes.
7. If you want you can tie a piece of yarn to the front of the caterpillar, so your child can pull it around the house.

• Play the Color Dance Game:

1. Put down construction paper(red, blue, yellow, orange, purple and green) in a circle on the floor. Write each color in big black letters on the paper.
2. Have your child stand on/by a color.  They must tell you what color they are on.
3. Play music and have the child walk around/on the colors.
4. When the music stops they must stand on/by a color.  They must again tell you what color they are on.  If you want they could also spell the color out to you too.
5. Repeat.

• Finger-paint. Let your child experiment with mixing different colors together.  See what happens if they add a lot of blue and less red.  What happens?

Rainbows:

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Remember the order of a rainbow with this acronym: ROY G BIV: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet(purple)

• Make a rainbow.  What order do the colors go in?  Remember you must add the color indigo to the colors, for a true rainbow.  Indigo is a dark blue.
• Make an edible rainbow bracelet with yarn and fruit loops. Could also glue fruit loops onto a piece of paper to make rainbow too.
• Make a rainbow crayon.  Put red, blue, yellow, green, orange and purple together and hold together with a rubber band and let them make rainbow circles.
• Make a color book:  

1. Take 8 sheets of paper and punch 3 holes down the sides.  Tie together with colored yarn.  
2. On the first page you can put your childs name, rainbow book and have them draw a rainbow.  
3. Put a different color on each page.  Have them draw an arch of that color on the top of the page. For Example: Write red on the top of the first page. Then fill the page up with that color.  For example on the red page put a picture of a red car, red shirt, red towel.

• Marble Paint: 

1. Put a sheet of white paper in a flat box.  
2. Have the paint colors Red, Blue, Yellow.
3. Place a little bit of a color onto the sheet of paper.
4. Then, place a marble into the box and let your child roll it around.  
5. Next, add another color to the box and repeat
6. Finally, add the last color into the box.  
7. Did the colors mix together to form other colors.
8. Let paper dry and hang.

• Go on a nature walk/hike and see how many colors you can find.  
• Play I spy the color.....

Books:

• A Magic Ribbon Book By: Betty Ann Schwartz
• Colors By Tana Hoban
• Little Blue and Little Yellow By Leo Lionni
• Red Day, Green Day By Edith Kunhardt
• The Blue Ballon By Mike Inkpen
• Growing Colors By Bruce McMillian
• Blue Bug's Book of Colors By Virginia Poulet
• Green Bear By Alan Rogers
• Colors Everywhere By Tana Hoban
• Mouse Paint By Ellen Stoll Walsh
• Shapes, Shapes, Shapes By Tana Hoban
• Shapes By Carol Watson
• Circles, Triangles, Squares By Tana Hoban
• A Rainbow of My Own By Don Freeman
• All The Colors of The Rainbow By Allan Fowler

Songs:

Shape Song:

"I'm Proud to Know My Shapes"  to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell"

I'm proud to know my shapes,

I'm proud to know my shapes.

Follow along as I sing my song,

I'm proud to know my shapes.

Verse 1:

A circle looks like this, (draw in air)

A circle looks like this, (draw in air)

It's a shape like no other shape,

A circle looks like this. (draw in air)

Other Verses:

A square looks like this, (draw in air)

A triangle looks like this, (draw in air)

A rectangle looks like this(draw in air)

A diamond looks like this(draw in air)

An oval looks like this this(draw in air)

Ending:

I'm proud to know my shapes

I'm proud to know my shapes

You followed along as I sang my song,

I'm proud to know my shapes.

Some ideas were found in the book: The Giant Encyclopedia of Circle Time and Group Activities for Children 3 to 6 by Kathy Charner

A couple ideas were done by local schools and libraries.

Educational Learning For Toddlers: Week Seven