Color: Green
Letter: Dd
Number: 4
Our rhyme is: A wise old Owl
Our songs are:
Classical: Peer Gynt Suite No 1, Prelude (morning)
Silly: Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Language: Cat
French: chat
Spanish: gato
German: katze
Book: "Counting Kisses" by Karen Katz
Sign: "water"
Showing posts with label toddler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label toddler. Show all posts
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Monday, December 19, 2011
Week of 12/26/11-1/1/12
Color: Yellow
Letter: Cc
Number: 3
Our rhyme is: Higgledy Piggledy
Our songs are:
Classical: Prelude No. 1 from well tempered Clavier by Bach
Silly: Alphabet Song
Language: Duck
French: canard
German: pato
Spanish: ente
Book: "Baby Beluga" by Raffi (yes we have a board book of this!)
Sign: "milk"
Letter: Cc
Number: 3
Our rhyme is: Higgledy Piggledy
Our songs are:
Classical: Prelude No. 1 from well tempered Clavier by Bach
Silly: Alphabet Song
Language: Duck
French: canard
German: pato
Spanish: ente
Book: "Baby Beluga" by Raffi (yes we have a board book of this!)
Sign: "milk"
Week 3
So Sophie has pneumonia, RSV and we recently learned to anticipate roseola in the next few days. Because of this and the fact Christmas is this week (seriously what terrible luck for a toddler to be sick Christmas week) we're taking a week long Holiday from the schedule. I will post next week tonight though.
Hope you all have a wonderful week!
Hope you all have a wonderful week!
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
A note on our reading
This week our book is "Room for a Little One" the previous week it was "Who is Coming to Our House?"
Right now my books are seasonally appropriate for my family since we're celebrating the Christmas season. I also am planning to go out sometime this weekend and get perhaps a book on Hanukkah. But if you are following these little suggestions (please by any means do! just if you use my idea in a blog link it back) I suggest you use books you already have.
Find a book, perhaps one you little one doesn't show much interest in and the night before your week starts put the book out in an obvious place. With my kids they have a little cube shelf that we stick their toys in. The books are at eye level for my toddler. I usually store them spine out because its more space efficient but I take the book of the week and turn it so the cover is out. She instinctively grabs it first, maybe because its closer or perhaps because its got more to look at than the spines.
I'm sure you already do this but whenever they bring you the book read it to them. But, as a suggestion, I know that I am guilty of as soon as she's off doing something I stop reading (especially when it's the 30th time that hour she asked me to read it). Instead even if they're on the other side of the room fiddling with a toy continue to read. If you have time finish the book even if you think they aren't listening. Read in a louder clear voice the rest of the book, even if it is the 30th time.
Did you know it is suggested your toddler hear 30,000 words a day! Reading these books over and over is an easy way to ebb up your count.
Right now my books are seasonally appropriate for my family since we're celebrating the Christmas season. I also am planning to go out sometime this weekend and get perhaps a book on Hanukkah. But if you are following these little suggestions (please by any means do! just if you use my idea in a blog link it back) I suggest you use books you already have.
Find a book, perhaps one you little one doesn't show much interest in and the night before your week starts put the book out in an obvious place. With my kids they have a little cube shelf that we stick their toys in. The books are at eye level for my toddler. I usually store them spine out because its more space efficient but I take the book of the week and turn it so the cover is out. She instinctively grabs it first, maybe because its closer or perhaps because its got more to look at than the spines.
I'm sure you already do this but whenever they bring you the book read it to them. But, as a suggestion, I know that I am guilty of as soon as she's off doing something I stop reading (especially when it's the 30th time that hour she asked me to read it). Instead even if they're on the other side of the room fiddling with a toy continue to read. If you have time finish the book even if you think they aren't listening. Read in a louder clear voice the rest of the book, even if it is the 30th time.
Did you know it is suggested your toddler hear 30,000 words a day! Reading these books over and over is an easy way to ebb up your count.
Week 2
After the fun we had with our red apple last week I decided snacks were a perfect way to illustrate to Sophie amounts and colors.
Sophie loves food and loves to eat. She actually began walking because we would bribe her with graham crackers. So yesterday Sophie had oranges for snack. She usually only eats half an orange for a snack so I cut an orange into quarters and gave her two of the quarters. She enjoyed that part.
I think she's beginning to catch on to the fact I'm teaching her. She loves to learn new things, and like any toddler she's pretty darn determined to get things down. I swear she pointed to B on the alphabet chart 30 times today. When she points to a letter (even if its not this weeks letter) I always say it aloud. I've decide that to differentiate other letters from letters we learned when she points I'll say something like "B: b for ball" or since we learned A "A: a for apple" (there's that food again)
Sophie is pretty familiar with the "more" sign, she will use it on random. I'm really reinforcing it using it almost anytime I say the word, more.
Our language word of the week holds new meaning. I've discovered recently Sophie is terrified of strange dogs. She is regularly exposed to a 70lb standard poodle and a miserable 15lb Pomeranian. She has never shown fear to dogs before but on Monday we went to visit a friend and she was paralyzed with fear, she literally backed under the tree and just laid there screaming. This worries me because after the devastating loss of her 11 year companion, Phoebe, my grandmother has just gotten a new dog. I'm using the opportunity to try to remind her that dogs aren't bad. We're looking at lots of pictures of dogs.
Sophie loves food and loves to eat. She actually began walking because we would bribe her with graham crackers. So yesterday Sophie had oranges for snack. She usually only eats half an orange for a snack so I cut an orange into quarters and gave her two of the quarters. She enjoyed that part.
I think she's beginning to catch on to the fact I'm teaching her. She loves to learn new things, and like any toddler she's pretty darn determined to get things down. I swear she pointed to B on the alphabet chart 30 times today. When she points to a letter (even if its not this weeks letter) I always say it aloud. I've decide that to differentiate other letters from letters we learned when she points I'll say something like "B: b for ball" or since we learned A "A: a for apple" (there's that food again)
Sophie is pretty familiar with the "more" sign, she will use it on random. I'm really reinforcing it using it almost anytime I say the word, more.
Our language word of the week holds new meaning. I've discovered recently Sophie is terrified of strange dogs. She is regularly exposed to a 70lb standard poodle and a miserable 15lb Pomeranian. She has never shown fear to dogs before but on Monday we went to visit a friend and she was paralyzed with fear, she literally backed under the tree and just laid there screaming. This worries me because after the devastating loss of her 11 year companion, Phoebe, my grandmother has just gotten a new dog. I'm using the opportunity to try to remind her that dogs aren't bad. We're looking at lots of pictures of dogs.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Week of 12/12/11-12/18/11
Color: Orange
Letter: Bb
Number: 2
Our rhyme is: Georgie Porgie
Our songs are:
Classical: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43, Var. No. 18
Silly: Wheels on the Bus (I like the raffi version best)
Language: Dog
French: chien
German: hund
Spanish: perro
Book: "Room for a Little One" by Martin Waddell and Jason Cockcroft
Sign: "more"
Letter: Bb
Number: 2
Our rhyme is: Georgie Porgie
Our songs are:
Classical: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43, Var. No. 18
Silly: Wheels on the Bus (I like the raffi version best)
Language: Dog
French: chien
German: hund
Spanish: perro
Book: "Room for a Little One" by Martin Waddell and Jason Cockcroft
Sign: "more"
Monday, December 5, 2011
Week 1 Day 1
I'm not going to say I'll update about this every day but pretty close in the beginning.
I had the little girl I babysit today (she's 13 months old) so regardless I started. I babysit this girl at least 2 times a week
I wrote up a list of what we're doing and placed it above our alphabet board. This is to remind my husband and myself of what we're working on this week. Carl was all excited and immediately showing Sophia red things, we have an Elmo winter hat that he immediately put on her head. She pretty much wore the hat all day, taking it off only to give it to me to put it back on. If I didn't loudly proclaim "Sophie, this is your RED hat" she would rip it off and give it back. Perhaps a red shirt tomorrow?
I think I read her "Who is coming to our house" at least 14 times. I actually hid the book for a while to avoid reading it over and over and over. The book is a sweet little story about the animals getting ready for someone coming to their home. A chick sweeps the floor, a momma pig pushes her babies to make room, and a mouse answers the constant question "Who is coming to our house?" At the very end Mary and Joseph arrive late in the night and the animals all welcome them to their house.
I had Carl draw a red flower and next to it I wrote "rote blume, rouge fleur, rojo flor" Please be aware I do know that "Red flower" in French and Spanish are formed differently but I wanted to illustrate that red, rote, rouge, and rojo are all the same word. I let Sophia hold the picture and I started by saying "Look that's a red flower" then later "Look a rote blume" and so forth.
As for the sign every time I said the word "please" I would sign it. When I would prompt her to say please I would take her hand and help her do the rough sign as I said "Sophie say please." Later this evening when she brought "Who is Coming to Our House" to me I prompted her to say please and I had her make the sign. She didn't sign "please" but she said it, this is the first time she has ever said this.
As for the number 1 and the letter A I would point out when she only had one of something. I also pointed to one on her number chart and said one, uno, un, ein. As for the letter A, I was kind of shocked to find I didn't have many toys that started with A or really any objects. I'm having Carl stop at the grocery store after work to get red apples.
Tomorrow for snack I think we're having one red apple.
I had the little girl I babysit today (she's 13 months old) so regardless I started. I babysit this girl at least 2 times a week
I wrote up a list of what we're doing and placed it above our alphabet board. This is to remind my husband and myself of what we're working on this week. Carl was all excited and immediately showing Sophia red things, we have an Elmo winter hat that he immediately put on her head. She pretty much wore the hat all day, taking it off only to give it to me to put it back on. If I didn't loudly proclaim "Sophie, this is your RED hat" she would rip it off and give it back. Perhaps a red shirt tomorrow?
I think I read her "Who is coming to our house" at least 14 times. I actually hid the book for a while to avoid reading it over and over and over. The book is a sweet little story about the animals getting ready for someone coming to their home. A chick sweeps the floor, a momma pig pushes her babies to make room, and a mouse answers the constant question "Who is coming to our house?" At the very end Mary and Joseph arrive late in the night and the animals all welcome them to their house.
I had Carl draw a red flower and next to it I wrote "rote blume, rouge fleur, rojo flor" Please be aware I do know that "Red flower" in French and Spanish are formed differently but I wanted to illustrate that red, rote, rouge, and rojo are all the same word. I let Sophia hold the picture and I started by saying "Look that's a red flower" then later "Look a rote blume" and so forth.
As for the sign every time I said the word "please" I would sign it. When I would prompt her to say please I would take her hand and help her do the rough sign as I said "Sophie say please." Later this evening when she brought "Who is Coming to Our House" to me I prompted her to say please and I had her make the sign. She didn't sign "please" but she said it, this is the first time she has ever said this.
this is the sign for please
As for the number 1 and the letter A I would point out when she only had one of something. I also pointed to one on her number chart and said one, uno, un, ein. As for the letter A, I was kind of shocked to find I didn't have many toys that started with A or really any objects. I'm having Carl stop at the grocery store after work to get red apples.
Tomorrow for snack I think we're having one red apple.
Week of 12/5/11 to 12/11/11
This week we are leaning about:
Color: Red
Letter: Aa
Number: 1
Our rhyme is: Rub a Dub Dub
Our songs are:
Classical: Minuet in G by Bach
Silly: Baby Beluga by Raffi
Language: flower
French: fleur
German: blume
Spanish: flor
Book: "Who is Coming To Our House?" by Joseph Slate and Ashley Wolff
Sign: "please"
Color: Red
Letter: Aa
Number: 1
Our rhyme is: Rub a Dub Dub
Our songs are:
Classical: Minuet in G by Bach
Silly: Baby Beluga by Raffi
Language: flower
French: fleur
German: blume
Spanish: flor
Book: "Who is Coming To Our House?" by Joseph Slate and Ashley Wolff
Sign: "please"
Baby school
I worked in a daycare for over a year, before that I was a babysitter almost everyday and now I have children of my own. If there is one thing I'm passionate about its early education.
Some parents and children get along fine without structure, some prefer a schedule and routine. There is nothing wrong with either of those ideas. I personally need a routine (this stems from the daycare). So I have decided that now that Sophia is 16 months old (holy moley how did that happen?) she would be starting to become familiarized with her numbers, letters, and colors. Since neither of my kids are going to daycare I'm going to step back into my roll as an early ed teacher! It will be trial and error but I can't wait.
On another note, poor Sam isn't going to remember a time when mommy wasn't teaching him.
Some parents and children get along fine without structure, some prefer a schedule and routine. There is nothing wrong with either of those ideas. I personally need a routine (this stems from the daycare). So I have decided that now that Sophia is 16 months old (holy moley how did that happen?) she would be starting to become familiarized with her numbers, letters, and colors. Since neither of my kids are going to daycare I'm going to step back into my roll as an early ed teacher! It will be trial and error but I can't wait.
On another note, poor Sam isn't going to remember a time when mommy wasn't teaching him.
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