Educational Learning For Toddlers: Week Eight

New Words For This Week Are: Or, See, Hat

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

Child's First Book

1. Make sure to add three new sentences to your Child's First Book.
2. For the word Or, I wrote: My mom/My mom and I/My mom and I went Trick or Treating.
3. For the word See, I wrote: I see/ I see a big tree/I see a big tree with a bat in it.
4. For the word Hat, I wrote: The cat/ The cat on the mat/ The cat on the mat sat on my hat

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 Or, See, Hat 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 8 books to practice in now.
• How is your child doing?

Bean Bag Color Toss:

• Supplies Needed: Different Colored Construction Paper, Masking Tape, Bean Bags

1. Use a strip of tap to create a line across the kitchen floor and tape pieces of colored construction paper to the floor about 3 inches away from the line.  
2. Select a color and challenge your child to hit the corresponding paper target with a beanbag.  If you say," Three red squares," your child keeps tossing until he lands a beanbag on the red square three times.  
3. If you want you can add different shapes too instead of just using squares.

Letter Scramble

• Supplies Needed: Marker, 26 colored index cards, paper lunch bag

1. Write your child's name on the outside of a paper lunch bag. Print one letter of the alphabet on each index cards.  Toss the deck of index cards lightly into the air, scattering the cards on the floor in an open area of the room.
2. Once the cards are scattered, your child hunts for letters he recognizes.  For starters, challenge them to search for the first letter of their name.  If they know a few letters of the alphabet, ask them to find the letters they recognize, bring them to you, and tell you the letter printed on the card.  Each time your child correctly identifies a letter, they place the letter in their paper bag. 
3. Could also do this with words too.
4. Expand this game a bit so that your child announces the letter and tells you a word or name that starts with this letter.

Color Coins:

• Supplies Needed: Purse, Red, White and Blue Poker Chips

1. Hide about 15 poker chips around the room, with half of each chip in plain sight.
2. Give your child an old purse or wallet and let them search for all the "red" poker chips you have scattered around the room or hidden in plain sight.  
3. They will place the chips they find in their purse or wallet.
4. Have them find each color in turn.

Sponge-Blob With Numbers:

• Supplies Needed: Large Bucket, 2 Giant Sponges, Sidewalk Chalk

1. Draw a big square and divide it into 9 smaller squares.  In each square write a number from 1-9. 
2. Have your child get their sponge wet and throw it onto a square.
3. Each time a sponge lands inside one of these boxes, keep score.

Books:

• Max's First Word By Rosemary Wells
• Three Little Kittens By Paul Galdone
• Moob Baa La La La By Sandra Boynton
• Red Bear By Bodel Rikys
• Planting a Rainbow By Lois Ehlert
• One Cow Moo Moo By David Bennet

Educational Learning For Toddlers: Week Eight