Welcome to a lesson page. Here is a weekly lesson with different things to do daily for your toddler.
These Lessons are designed to teach your toddler with play and fun. There are new things to learn daily and weekly. Lesson set up: Flash cards, food, coloring pages, subjects with: lesson, games, activity, crafts, and books. Look at all of the lessons the week before so you can work them in. There is minimal prep work.
These Lessons are designed to teach your toddler with play and fun. There are new things to learn daily and weekly. Lesson set up: Flash cards, food, coloring pages, subjects with: lesson, games, activity, crafts, and books. Look at all of the lessons the week before so you can work them in. There is minimal prep work.
The Letter C
Flash cards for the day
Cat Coloring
Crayon Carrot
Car Cracker
Can Chili
Cup Cold
Counting Cereal
Ceiling Carpet
Cheese Cookie
Cat Coloring
Crayon Carrot
Car Cracker
Can Chili
Cup Cold
Counting Cereal
Ceiling Carpet
Cheese Cookie
Food
Cereal Cornbread
Carrots Cookie
Crackers Chili
Cereal Cornbread
Carrots Cookie
Crackers Chili
Counting day
Lesson- Use the 'counting' flash card to show the spelling. Go on a walk and count windows on houses or on cars. Count cars (use car flash car while talking about it). You can even count wheels and talk about colors. If you go to the park count swings and kids. You can count at home with favorite toys, food etc. You can use number flash cards to show numbers. Use any kind of counting books to read for story time.
Craft- Number stickers younger kids will need more help, Use mailing labels to write numbers and decorate them. You can use these to mark things around the house. Put '2' on the couch if you have two couches. Put '6' on a chair if you have 6 dinning room chairs, etc.
Games- Cup games, put water in a few cups and leave a few empty. Then let the kids pour the water in each cup. Use a small cup and a large cup and count how many small cups you need to fill the large cup. Play with ABC stacker cups.
Books- Counting Kisses, One Big Building, How Many Snails, Counting Crocodiles, Crayon Counting Book, My little Counting Book, Richard Scarry's Best Counting Book Ever.
Cooking Day
Lesson- Hot and cold. When you take food out of the refrigerator it is cold and when you cook it, it gets hot. Measuring, how do you measure? Colors, talk about all the different colors of the food.
Craft- Food painting. Cucumber, carrots and celery for paint brushes. It will make great patterns. Home made paint recipe to cook up.
Game- Cooking match up, grab all you doubled up cooking tools. Ex spatulas, measuring cups, baking sheet etc. Scatter them out on the floor or table and match them up together.
Books- Cooking Rocks (Rachel Ray), The Best Mouse Cookie, The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake, Cooking in a Can.
Color day
Lesson- Color recognition, texture (crayons are smooth, paint is wet chalk is chalky) for older kids who already know colors you can do more complex colors ( maroon, turquoise, gray, etc). Also you can teach them how to make colors out of red, yellow and blue. Older kids can use crayons to do math (If you have 4 crayons and you put 2 more
down how many to you have?). Younger kids can use them to count.
Craft- Crayon coloring page, water colors, shape art (cut shapes out of different colored paper and let them go glue crazy).
Games- Cut squares out of different colored paper and glue them in a bingo format. Take a walk around the house, neighborhood or grocery store and play color bingo. Use stickers to mark the spot.
Books- The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow, Spot looks at colors, Ice Cream Colors, Kids Teaching Kids colors.
Camping day
Lesson- What are all the things you need to camp. Tent, wood, food etc. You can get camp fire wood and use it to count. Use marsh mellows to count or do math.
Activities- Pitch a tent in your back yard and have story time. Take naps on sleeping bags Have smores for snacks.
Games- Imagine game.... Tell your child to imagine they are camping, What do you see? If they are too young then tell them what it would be like to camp.
Books- A camping spree with Mr Magee, Fred and Ted go Camping, Just me and my dad (little critters), The Berenstain Bears Go to Camp, Maisy goes camping, Doras Camping trip, Currious George goes Camping, Turtle and Snake Go Camping.
Other ideas (Cars)
Use toy cars to count or do math.
Go to a local car show and have fun talking about the different cars.
Car books- Disney's Cars: Race to the Finish, Little red car gets in trouble
Lesson- Use the 'counting' flash card to show the spelling. Go on a walk and count windows on houses or on cars. Count cars (use car flash car while talking about it). You can even count wheels and talk about colors. If you go to the park count swings and kids. You can count at home with favorite toys, food etc. You can use number flash cards to show numbers. Use any kind of counting books to read for story time.
Craft- Number stickers younger kids will need more help, Use mailing labels to write numbers and decorate them. You can use these to mark things around the house. Put '2' on the couch if you have two couches. Put '6' on a chair if you have 6 dinning room chairs, etc.
Games- Cup games, put water in a few cups and leave a few empty. Then let the kids pour the water in each cup. Use a small cup and a large cup and count how many small cups you need to fill the large cup. Play with ABC stacker cups.
Books- Counting Kisses, One Big Building, How Many Snails, Counting Crocodiles, Crayon Counting Book, My little Counting Book, Richard Scarry's Best Counting Book Ever.
Cooking Day
Lesson- Hot and cold. When you take food out of the refrigerator it is cold and when you cook it, it gets hot. Measuring, how do you measure? Colors, talk about all the different colors of the food.
Craft- Food painting. Cucumber, carrots and celery for paint brushes. It will make great patterns. Home made paint recipe to cook up.
Game- Cooking match up, grab all you doubled up cooking tools. Ex spatulas, measuring cups, baking sheet etc. Scatter them out on the floor or table and match them up together.
Books- Cooking Rocks (Rachel Ray), The Best Mouse Cookie, The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake, Cooking in a Can.
Color day
Lesson- Color recognition, texture (crayons are smooth, paint is wet chalk is chalky) for older kids who already know colors you can do more complex colors ( maroon, turquoise, gray, etc). Also you can teach them how to make colors out of red, yellow and blue. Older kids can use crayons to do math (If you have 4 crayons and you put 2 more
down how many to you have?). Younger kids can use them to count.
Craft- Crayon coloring page, water colors, shape art (cut shapes out of different colored paper and let them go glue crazy).
Games- Cut squares out of different colored paper and glue them in a bingo format. Take a walk around the house, neighborhood or grocery store and play color bingo. Use stickers to mark the spot.
Books- The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow, Spot looks at colors, Ice Cream Colors, Kids Teaching Kids colors.
Camping day
Lesson- What are all the things you need to camp. Tent, wood, food etc. You can get camp fire wood and use it to count. Use marsh mellows to count or do math.
Activities- Pitch a tent in your back yard and have story time. Take naps on sleeping bags Have smores for snacks.
Games- Imagine game.... Tell your child to imagine they are camping, What do you see? If they are too young then tell them what it would be like to camp.
Books- A camping spree with Mr Magee, Fred and Ted go Camping, Just me and my dad (little critters), The Berenstain Bears Go to Camp, Maisy goes camping, Doras Camping trip, Currious George goes Camping, Turtle and Snake Go Camping.
Other ideas (Cars)
Use toy cars to count or do math.
Go to a local car show and have fun talking about the different cars.
Car books- Disney's Cars: Race to the Finish, Little red car gets in trouble
