Educational Learning For Toddlers: Week Ten

Educational Learning For Toddlers:  Week Ten

New Words For This Week Are: Left, Right, Flag

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, Or, See, Hat, Rat, Moon, Car

Child's First Book

1. Make sure to add three new sentences to your Child's First Book.
2. For the word Left, I wrote: My left/ My left shoe is/ My left shoe is on the wrong foot.
3. For the word Right, I wrote: The tree/ The tree on the/ The tree on the right is oak.
4. For the word Flag, I wrote: The Flag/ The flag is/ The flag is red, white and blue. 

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 Left, Right, Flag 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. Have your child make a sentence with the words.

 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 10 books to practice in now.
• Do you know where all your child's books are?
• Do they need more practice on some words?

Three-Letter Words:

Supplies Needed: Construction paper, Cardboard(cereal box or other), glue, black marker

• Cut out 52 little squares out of the cardboard.
• Cut out 52 little squares  out of construction paper and glue on the cardboard.
• Write an alphabet letter on each square. Two of each letter.
• Then place the letters onto the floor and have your child make words with the letters.  You can place the letters onto a flat piece of cardboard .
• If you want you can draw 3 squares onto the piece of cardboard.  Then place a letter in one of the squares and have your child make a word using that letter in the square.  For example if you place a o in the second square your child can make the words dog, hog, log. 
• If you want you can extend the 3 letter words to 4 letters. 
• You could also use scrabble pieces for this too.

Stop Light:

• Supplies Needed: Red, Yellow, Green, White Construction paper, Glue, Ruler, Plastic Cup

1. Have your child turn a plastic cup upside down to trace three circles.  One on red, green and yellow paper.
2. Next, have your child use a ruler and make a rectangle bigger than the circles. 
3. Glue the circles onto the rectangle in order of the stop light: Red, Yellow, Green.
4. Explain to your child what the colors mean on the stop light.

Sound- Matching:

• Supplies Needed: Pictures of things that start with A, B and C., Cardboard, glue

1. Cut out pictures of things that start with the letters A, B, C.  Glue each picture on its on piece of cardboard.
2. Then on 3 of the pieces of cardboard, glue a piece of construction.  Let dry.  Write the Letters A, B, C on it.
3. Then lay the A, B, C  in three separate piles.  
4. Next, have your child try to place the pictures in the right pile.  Like an ant would go in the A pile, a Bear would go into the B pile and a Cat would go into the C pile.

Some Great websites for great gifts and educational learning toys for Christmas or Birthdays go to:  www.ttgo.com and www.lillyskids.com

Books:

• And The DISH Ran Away With The SPOON: By Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Cummel
• My First 500 Words Book: By Brimax
• We're Going On A Leaf Hunt: By Steve Metzger
• The Itsy Bitsy Spider: By Iza Trapani
• Mouse Shapes: By Ellen Stoll Walsh
• Mouse Paint: By Ellen Stoll Walsh
• Mouse Count: By Ellen Stoll Walsh
• Cool Dog, School Dog: By Deborah Heiligman
• If You're Happy And You Know It: Jungle Edition: By James Warhola

Educational Learning For Toddlers: Week Ten