Literature

The Little Engine That Could: ABC (Wee Pudgy Board Books)

Bible

Proverbs 20:7

"The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him."

Nursery Rhyme

Going to St. Ives

As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives.
Every wife had seven sacks,
Every sack had seven cats,
Every cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?

Speech & Vocabulary

Explaining: (at play time)  We are rolling this round ball back and forth.

Indoor Games

Stack 'em up!

You can use stacking cups, or measuring cups for this activity.  Starting with the largest cup on the bottom(upside down), teach your toddler to stack the cups from largest to smallest.  Then you can turn the cups back upright and place them back together in nesting fashion.

Classical Music

MacDowell: Woodland Sketches No. 2, Opus 51: To a Wild Rose

Children's Songs

I Can Sing a Rainbow  (Fred Penner)

Foreign Languages

(For learning French -- you can substitute with choices of your own in a different language.)

Part One: Learn a song in French -- Ainsi font, font, font
Part Two: French Vocabulary -- l'arbre (tree)

Exercise

Optional:  Choose an exercise from an exercise book to use with your toddler daily.

Arts and Crafts

Pencil Crayons: green, orange & purple -- give your toddler some green, orange & purple pencil crayons to color with.  Show the color green first and talk about things that are green.  Then let your toddler color with orange and talk about objects that are orange.  Then do the same with purple.  Your toddler could create 3 different drawings.  One all green, one all orange and the other all purple.  Finally let your toddler color with all 3 crayons on the same piece of paper.  Display the artwork in a prominent place.
 
 

Literature

Little Gorilla by Ruth Bornstein

Bible

Proverbs 20:7

"The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him."

Poetry

"The Morning Walk" from Now We are Six by A. A. Milne

Sign Language

Suggestion:  Teach the sign for BIRD.

Outdoor Games

(Depending on the season of the year you can rearrange these suggestions to work for you -- see the outdoor games link above.)

Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles -- have more fun chasing and popping bubbles.  Try using wands of different shapes and sizes.

Musical Exploration

Hokey Pokey -- dance the Hokey Pokey with your toddler.

Lullaby

Schlaf, Kindlein, Schlaf (German) from the Lullabies Around the World CD

Puppetry

Clothespin Puppets --  Using the clothespin puppets you made last lesson, tell some stories to your toddler.

Nature Study

Choose from the list of suggestions according to the current season.

Art Appreciation

Children's Illustrators Art Appreciation

Dr. Seuss -- Show your toddler the artwork of Dr. Seuss in the book If I Ran the Zoo.