Educational Learning for Toddlers : Week Three

New Words For Week Three Are: SAT, ON, MOM


Combine these 3 new words with: Cat, Dog, Bat, My, Log


Supplies Needed For This Weeks Projects:
Index cards, Foam book, Foam Letters, Alphabet Cereal, Cardboard, White Sheets of Paper, Construction Paper, Clear Contact Paper, Post-It Notes, Card Stock


Child's First Book:

1. Make sure to add 3 new sentences in your Child's First Book.
2. For the word SAT, I wrote: One bear/One bear sat/One bear sat in the sun.
3. For the word ON,  I wrote: My dog/My dog sat/My dog sat on my cat.
4. For the word MOM, I wrote: My mom/My mom put two/My mom put two logs on the fire
5. I made sure I put the two number words they are learning in this book too.
6. Remember to keep asking them about how to spell their other words too.

Index Card Project:

1. Write the words SAT, ON, MOM on index cards.
2. On the other side glue a picture of that word or have them draw a picture.
3. Put these with their other ones and keep quizzing them.

Key-chain Index Cards:

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

Learning To Write:

• Remember, you can go here for a great website for practice pages

Little Foam Word Books:

• You should now have 3 little foam word books after today's new words.
• Has your child been practicing in them?  Make sure to review over them.

Great Starter Books:

• Disney Babies books by Weekly Reader  I have found all of mine at Salvation Army Stores, Good Will stores, Second Stores, or Garage Sales.  They are easy reading and teaches you lessons about things like opposites.  There are several of them out now.  Check supply list for amazon site on them.

Picture Learning Fun:

• Find pictures of the all the 8 words they are learning so far or draw them.
• Glue the pictures on a sheet of white paper. Leave enough room for the word next to it.
• Next to the picture of a dog  put __ og.  Let them write in the missing letters.

Place mat Fun:

• Cut about a 18x24 inch piece of clear contact paper. Don't remove paper yet and fold in half. So you will have a 18x12 inch piece. Make sure to make the groove good.
• Cut out one inch squares out of construction paper, any color.  On each square, write out a letter to spell out their words.  Like one square would have the letter D, the next square the letter O and the last square the letter G. Do this for all the words.
• If you don't want to do the construction paper you could use foam letters too.
• Remove the paper on the contact paper up to the groove part.
• Next, place each square on clear contact paper to form their words, so DOG would be together, and so on. You can have the words go at a slant, or going down, or whatever you wish.
• You may also put pictures of these words on the contact paper too.  
• Add a little glitter, but not too much because it won't stick together that well. 
• After sticky everything on you want, peel off the rest of the paper and carefully stick the two halves together to form a place mat for your child for his meal time.
• You could also do Place mat Art with this too!  Just have your child decorate the place mat with things like beads, ribbon, yarn, glitter, stickers, small pompoms, feathers.  Just remember the things that will form a bump in the place mat, should be put in lower corners so that the plates or cups won't wobble.

Go Fish Cards:

• Remember to add your three new words to your Go Fish Game

Refrigerator Fun:

• Three more words to add to their magnet game for the fridge

Post-It Note Words:

• How are the kids doing with the extra help of seeing their words everywhere on post-it notes.

Hide and Seek Letters:

• Did you remember to have your kids play hide and seek letters around the house this week!

Wooden Letter Blocks:

• These can be found at most stores like Wal-Mart or Amazon.
• Kids can spell words with the blocks and build things too.
• Watch the age limit on these because little children will bite them and might get a piece of the wood free and choke on it.

Alphabet Eating:

• Alphabet spaghettios
• Alphabet pasta (great for crafts too)
• Alphabet cereal (could also them let do art work with this one, too).
• Cheez-It Scrabble Junior

Educational Learning for Toddlers : Week Three

Educational Learning for Toddlers : Week Two

New Words for Week Two are:  BAT, MY, LOG

Combine these 3 new words with last weeks words CAT and DOG.

Remember to refer back to Week One for refreshing your memory on some of these projects we made in that week.

Supplies Needed for Learning Projects:
    Index Cards, Child's First Book, Foam Book, Foam Letters


Child's First Book:

1. Make sure to write 3 new sentences in your Child's First Book.
2. For the word MY, I wrote:  I Love/  I Love My/  I Love My T-Rex (or any other dinosaur, my daughter's favorite is Parasaurolophus and she can read it every time.)
3. For the word BAT, I wrote: I Hit/ I Hit The Ball/ I Hit The Ball With My Bat.
4. For the word LOG, I wrote: My Mom/ My Mom Sat/ My Mom Sat On A Log.
5. Remember to leave enough room for pictures.
6. Make sure you keep going back to read the first two pages to them too.
7. I found at Target in the office supply section an early creative story tablet called the Primary Journal. By Mead.  You could also use this book for a book too.  There is a spot on top of each page for pictures.  I like the one I made because it was softer and the pages were thicker.

Index Cards Project:

1. Write the words MY, BAT, LOG on index cards.
2. One the other side glue a picture of that word or have your child draw one. 
3. When you show the picture to your child have them say and spell the word.
4. Remember you can also put the words on index cards to tape them up around the house.
5. You can laminate them too.
6. Putting your cards on a ring, help to keep them all together.

Key-chain Index Cards:

• Don't forget to write the 3 new words on your key-chain cards.

Remember To Keep Teaching Your Child Their Words Everywhere You Go.

Teaching Your Child To Write Words:

• You can log onto this website, to print out pages to help your child with their writing skills.
• It takes time for your child to learn how to write, so please be patient.
• Write the words down and have your child trace over the top of them.
• Have them try to write them on their own.

Little Foam Books:

• On your second little foam books, glue or stick the foam letters that spell this weeks words.
• Write My on first page, Bat on second page, Log on third page and repeat. 
• Your child should now have 2 little foam books, week 1 and week 2.

Great Starter Books:

• Cake, Cake, Cake, Pie by Sally Kahler Phillips
• Hot Dog by Molly Coxe
• Cat Traps by Molly Coxe
• Mouse's Hide-and-Seek Words by Kathryn Heling
• Moo, Baa, La La La! by Sandra Boynton

Remember to see if your child can find their words they are learning in the books you read. Anytime you come across any of their words make sure to point it out to them so they can help read.


 Great ways to have fun learning:

•  Scrabble Junior: Buy Scrabble Junior Cheez-It crackers by Sunshine.  Pick out the letters you need for your five words and have your child spell out the different words they are learning.
• Go Fish: Cut out playing size cards out of card stock or heavy scrap paper.  Some heavy scrap paper have nice designs on them. Write each letter from the 5 words on each card.  You can now play a short game of Go Fish! After each week your pile of cards should grow bigger.
• Refrigerator Fun: Write each letter from the 5 words and glue them onto a piece of cardboard.  Place a magnet on the back of each cardboard piece and stick them to fridge.
• Hide and Seek Letters:

1.    Write each letter onto a post-it note and stick them up around the house and then let your child try to find the letters he needs for each word. 
2.  Try to get them to find a letter that's starts a word.  For instance:  They need to find the C in cat or the B in bat. 
3.  Once they find the first letter they must then spell that word.
4.   They continue searching around the house for the next letter like a in cat or bat. And so on.

Educational Learning for Toddlers : Week Two