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

Dinosaurs!!! Week Two September 13-19

Right now Target has a lot of Dinosaur Items in their dollar section. These maybe on clearance now or soon well be.


Crafts:

Dinosaur Mosaic: 

Supplies Needed: Dinosaur Picture (coloring book or printout), Regular or Sticky Back Foam Pieces, and Cardboard.

1.   Glue the picture to a cardboard piece. 
2.  Cut little squares from different color foam. 
3.  Have child glue or stick the foam onto the picture. 
4.  Use can also buy already to use kits from places that sell crafts. 

Dinosaur Feet: 

Supplies Needed:  2 pieces of cardboard, ribbon,paint, markers or crayons.

1.  Draw 2 Big Dinosaur Feet onto pieces of cardboard. 
2.  Cut out the feet and cut 2 slits in the middle off to the sides, on each feet for the ribbon to go through. 
3.  Let the child decorate the feet. 
4. After it dries, Loop a ribbon through the feet area long enough for the kids to fit their feet and tie off.
5.  Now they can slip their feet through the ribbon and stomp around the house.

Paper Plate Dinosaur: 

Supplies Needed:   2 Paper plates, paint, glue, gogglie eye. 

1.  Take a paper plate and cut out a stegasaurus. When cutting out the stegasaurus, you will not have enough plate for the tail. 
2.  Cut the tail for another paper plate and glue it onto the other plate. 
3.  Let the child decorate his own stegasaurus. 
4.  A gogglie eye can be used for his eye.

Make your own Dinosaur Puzzles:

Supplies Needed:  Dinosaur picture, cardboard, glue, paint, marker or crayons. 

1.  Print off or Tear out picture from coloring book and glue it onto a  piece of cardboard.
2.   Have a child color the picture and laminate the picture.  Can paint glue over the top of the paper to do this. 
3.  Then when the glue dries cut the cardboard up into pieces like squares for the child to put back together.

Paper Mache Dinosaur Egg.

 Supplies Needed: Balloon, growing dinosaur, newspaper, flour paste, paint.

Flour Paste Recipe: 1/2 cup white flour and 2/3 cup of water. Mix well.

1. First we put the dinosaur the grows in water into the balloon. 
2. We then filled the balloon with water. 
3. Next cut newspaper into 8 inch strips about an inch wide. 
4.  Dip the newspaper into the flour paste and apply to balloon. 
5. When the balloon is completely covered, let it completely dry. 
6.  When the egg is dry, the child can begin decorating it. 
7. We waited til the end of the week to pop the balloon. 
8.  When we popped the balloon a huge dinosaur was waiting for us. 
9. This project can get very messy I suggest doing it outside or on tile.

Coloring :

      www.coloring.ws/dinosaur.htm ,     www.coloringbookfun.com/dino
      http://familycrafts.about.com/od/dinosaurcoloring/Dinosaur_Coloring_Pages.htmsaur,

       http://www.ivyjoy.com/coloring/dinosaur.shtml  This website also has great links for learning  about          dinosaurs too.

Other Crafts:  Pictures Shown Below:

Pasta Art:

Supplies Needed: Different sizes and shapes of pasta, paints/markers construction paper and glue.

• Place different pasta in bowls or on paper plates.
• You may have your child paint or marker the pastas. Let them dry on wax paper.
• Have your child glue the pasta on the construction. Tell them they can make whatever they want like faces, houses,cars, etc.

Imagination Art:

Supplies Needed:  Construction paper, glue and whatever you have around the house.  Suggestions included: Popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners, paints/markers/crayons, buttons, string or yarn, cereal, pom poms, gogglie eyes, cut out of your children's hands and feet out of construction paper, paper clips, stickers, stamps, feathers, rubber bands and bottle caps.

• Let your child's imagination begin. 
• Have your child glue different objects onto construction paper into any design they wish.

Canvas Art:

Supplies Needed:  Canvas, Paints, paintbrushes or let them use sponges, fingers, rubber balls, marbles.

• Let your child paint away on their canvas, just like a true artist would.
  

Activities:

Dinosaur Excavation Kit:

•  These can be purchased at target in dollar section, hobby lobby or dollar tree. 
•  They hide dinosaur bones inside a block of rock like material for the kids to use special tools that it comes with to find all the bones. 
• It gets very messy so I suggest doing it over newspaper and on tile or outside.

Fossil Dig:

1. Print out pictures from this website and cut them up in squares.
2. Make sure to keep each dinosaur bones with each other. 
3. Place one set of bones into a tub of rice. 
4.  Let the child search through the rice for all the bones. 
5.  When they find all the bones the child can then put the bones together to form their dinosaur. 
6.  I suggest printing out 2 copies of each dinosaur, that way when you cut one up the child can still see how to put it together. 

Dinosaur Grow Capsules:

•  These can be found at Target and the Dollar Tree for $1. 
• When the child takes a bath they can watch their dinosaur grow in a container filled with water.  This way they don't get lost in the tub.

Visit a Zoo or Museum: 

• Right now for those who live around Chicagoland, they have life-size dinosaurs that move and make noise. 
•  Some of these dinosaurs the kids can make move and have them make noises.
•  These can be found at Brookfield Zoo.
•  They will be there through October. 
•  http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/.

Cave Painting:

• Take a large cardboard box and cut out a door, let the child draw little cave paintings inside and outside the box. 

Hot Lava Game:

• Place a red blanket inside and over a bucket or trashcan like lava. 
• Have the child try to throw dinosaurs or bean bags into the hot lava.

Dinosaur Egg Hunt:

• Place little dinosaurs in Easter eggs and hide them around the yard. 
•  Let your child go on a dinosaur egg hunt.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dig: 

•  You will need chocolate chip cookies, and skewers for this game. 
• Let your child take the skewers and dig out the chocolate chip out of their cookies.

 

Dinosaur Egg on a Spoon Race:

• Give each child and/ or adult a spoon, plastic egg or hard-boiled egg and have a race.

Hot Dinosaur Egg: 

• This game is just like hot potato. 
• You can use an egg or bean bag.

Dinosaur Egg Stomp:

1. Tie a piece of yarn onto a balloon. 
2. Then tie the other end of the string around a child's ankle. 
3.  Then the kids try to stomp on each other balloons and try to pop them.
4. Make sure the piece of yarn is not to short or long. 

Wooden Dinosaurs: 

• Can be found at dollar trees, walmart and craft stores.
• The child just paints their dinosaurs whatever they wish
• Has a hook on back for hanging.

Snacks/Food

• Dinosaur Eggs:  Boiled Eggs
• Dinosaur Bones: Pretzel Sticks
• Chicken Wings (Meat Eaters), Vegetable Platter(Plant Eaters)
• Brontosaurs Burgers
• Popsicles with gummy dinosaurs (make your own)
• Create a Saur gummies by General Mills
• Dinosaur Cereal
• Dinosaur Chicken Nuggets
• Dinosaur Sandwiches(they have dinosaurs sandwich cutters at Wal-Mart in the bread section)
• Dinosaur Cookies (can make these with cookie cutters)
• Diego Great Dinosaur Rescue Gummies by Kellogg
• Jello Dinosaur Eggs filled with dinosaur gummies (use jello mold for making easter eggs)
• Dinosaur and Shark gummies at Hyvee

Remember to check out my books, videos and TV suggestions on supply list for week two.

Dinosaurs!!! Week Two September 13-19