Educational Learning For Toddlers: Week Eighteen

Educational Learning For Toddlers

Week Eighteen

New Words For This Week Are: Red, White, Blue

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, Left, Right, Flag, All, Fun, Book, Off, Time, Cold, Santa, Snow, Wet, Deer, Side, Ice, Lady, Old, New, Farm, Cow, Barn

Child's First Book

1. Make sure to add three new sentences to your Child's First Book.
2. For the word Red: The red /The red car went up/The red car went up the hill.
3. For the word White: The deer/The deer was walking/The deer was walking in the white snow.
4. For the word Blue: The flag/The flag is red/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:

Write the words Red, White and Blue on index cards.

1. On the other side glue a picture of that word or have them draw a picture.
2. Have your child make a sentence with the words.
3. Take the letters of the words and make new 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.
• Do you need to make another keychain?
• Are you using the keychain?

Go Fish Game:

• Remember to add their words to their Go Fish Game.
• Are you playing the go fish game with your child?

Little Foam Books:

• After adding the words to your new little foam books, your child will have 18 books to practice in now.
• Do your kids need new books for their older words?
• Are your kids still practicing all their words?

Alphabet Detective:

• Write one letter of the alphabet on each index card (A to Z).
• Shuffle the deck of cards and place the deck facedown on the ground.  Player no. 1 takes three cards from the deck and, keeping them facedown, sets them aside.  He sets the timer for two or three minutes and shouts "Go!" Player no. 2 begins laying the rest of the cards faceup in a horizontal line, trying to get them back into alphabetical order so he can figure out which three letters are missing before the timer sounds.  One point is scored for each correct letter guessed, for a total of three possible points per round of play.  On the next round, the players switch roles.  When they come to a stopping point where they've had the same number of turns, the player with the most points wins.

String Art:

• Supplies Needed: String or Yarn, Construction Paper, Hole Punch, Markers

1. Print your child's first name in capital letters across the top of a piece of construction paper near the edge. (Paper is turned on its side like a rectangle.)
2. Punch a hole below each letter.
3. Print your child's last name in capital letters across the bottom of the paper near the edge .  
4. Punch a hole below each letter.
5. If your first name is longer than your last name then just add stars or another design on either side of name. You want the same number on top as there is on bottom.
6. Attach string or yarn from the holes at the top of the paper to holes at the bottom.  Attach the first letter or design in first name and attach it to the last letter or design in the last name.
7. Thread a length of yarn or string back and forth through the holes by beginning at the top left corner and finishing at the bottom left corner.  (Be sure to make a knot in the back of the first hole to secure the yarn.)

Nifty Names:

• Supplies Needed: Glue, newspaper, scissors, construction paper, homemade or commercial watercolors, pens, pencils, or fine point markers, paintbrush, optional: fabric, glitter, sequins, buttons, shells

1. Using newspaper, measure and draw the letters of your child's name. (They can trace around precut letters.)
2. Watercolor over the drawn letters. Let them dry.  Cut out letters.
3. Glue the letters on construction paper in any arrangement.
4. You can also place finished on fabric or other background and display them children's writing.
5. Decorate shoeboxes and glue your name to your box.   Children can use the personalized boxes for supplies.

Some ideas were found in these books:

• Arts, Crafts & More by Teacher Created Materials, Inc.
• Unplugged Play by Bobbi Conner

Educational Learning For Toddlers: Week Eighteen