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Explore Together (indoors): Look Inside Fruits
Examine the seeds in three different fruits. Encourage children to draw, write, or dictate their observations to compare the seeds.
Explore Together (indoors): Our Growing Seeds and Bulbs
Have children observe their growing plants. Instruct them to use their science notebooks to draw their plants.
Explore Together (indoors): Responding to Sound
Invite children to create their own music by responding to the sounds they hear indoors. Provide various materials and help children identify and imitate sounds.
Explore Together (indoors): Squishes of Color
Have children mix paints in clear sealable bags to observe how light and dark shades of a color are mixed.
Explore Together (outdoors): Outdoor Sounds
Allow children to explore freely making sounds on various outdoor surfaces. Tell children you want them to record at least one observation on a clipboard.
Families
Have children find pictures and create families.
Feelings Are Important!
Help toddlers learn words and strategies they need to help them manage and express and feelings, stay safe, handle new situations, and resolve problems.
Flashlight Games
Play flashlight games with toddlers to help them build language skills. Spotlight and name an object in the room and then talk about it.
Greeting Song: “Clap a Friend’s Name” #3
Sing the greeting song and hold up a name card as children “grow” like a plant. Repeat until every child is included.
Greeting Song: “Good Morning” #1
Sing a greeting song and have the group acknowledge each child by name.
Greeting Song: “Good Morning” #4
Sing the greeting song and hold up a name card for each child to recognize his or her name.
Greeting Song: “Here We Are Together” #4
Sing “Here We Are Together” with children as they hold up their name cards when they hear their name in the song.
Greeting Song: “I See Someone” #3
Sing the greeting song to three children at a time and clap the parts in their names. Identify whose name was called first, next, and last.
Greeting Song: “Will You Meet a Friend of Mine?” #1
Sing the greeting song and signal to one child and have the whole class greet him or her.
Greeting Song: “Will You Meet a Friend of Mine?” #2
Hold up a name card in the last line of the greeting song "Will You Be A Friend Of Mine" and have everyone greet that child.
Greeting Song: “Will You Meet a Friend of Mine?” #5
Have children discuss and choose how they would like to sing the greeting song.
Just Like Me
Nurture a toddler’s individuality. Choose books with characters they can identify with and stories that reflect their home languages and cultures.
Just Like Me
Nurture a toddler’s individuality. Choose books with characters they can identify with and stories that reflect their home languages and cultures.
Learn About Letter Sounds Together: Bag of Sounds (/j/)
Ask a child to pull an object from a bag filled with objects that begin with the /j/ sound. Name the object emphasizing the beginning /j/ sound.
Learn About Letter Sounds Together: Beginning Sound (/z/)
Help children learn the /z/ sound by having them come up with real or made-up words that begin with the /z/ sound.