Toy Rotation 20
March 8,2024
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Last week’s toys and books:
Last week I put out our latest Lovevery box along with a cute little garden themed shelf. Aryi played with every single toy. Everything was a hit. To see those toys in detail check out last week’s blog by clicking the link below.
This week’s toys and books:
This week we left everything out that was out. I just added in our newest Kiwico box that we got. It was garden themed, so I thought it would go great on my garden shelf.
Garden box and wooden vegetables (Kiwico) – This toy is so cute. You can plant the wooden vegetables and then pick them.
Basket (Kiwico) – When you pick your vegetables, you can put them in your basket and have a picnic or bring them to cook.
Pot, pan, and wooden spoon (Kiwico) – You can cook your veggies with your pot and pan.
Letter Basket:
This week we are keeping our Ff basket. The videos I will be playing are The Good and The Beautiful ABCs and ABC sounds, the letter Ff song from ABC mouse, the Letter Ff from ABCmouse, How to write the Letter Ff from ABCmouse, A to Z by ABC mouse, Alphabet Surprise Turn and Learn Letter Ff and Frank the Fish from Easy Peasy All-in-one Homeschool. These are the links for those songs in the order I wrote them below.
I say the letter and show it to Aryi. Then I will say the letter sound. This is a Ff and it says FFFFFFF. We go through words that start with the Letter Ff. I pull out the items as we go through the words. For Ff, I have a flower, flower flashcard, 4 and 5 flashcards, a family photo, a farm, a football, a frisbee, a fish, a frog, a flute, a Ff flashcard, and an Ff block. We can also point to our feet. I have an alphabet puzzle with letters A-F out. I will let Aryi Identify the letters from a few pieces and he can place the letters in his alphabet puzzle as we say A is for AAAA, B is for BBBB, C is for CCCC, and so on. We can read whatever related books Aryi wants to that day. I have 5 Alphabet books; ‘see, touch, feel ABC’, ‘abc’, ‘Once Upon an Alphabet’, ‘A is for Apple’ and ‘AB See”. I have books that feature Ff words; ‘Hello, Frog’, ‘See, Touch, Feel, Farm’, Look! Flowers!‘’, ‘Fox on the Loose!’, and ‘Animals in the Forrest’. I got the Ff word books from the library. This is a great way for us to practice our Ff sound when Aryi points to the things in the book and says what they are. Then we can do a Ff related coloring page or craft. I get some of these crafts from education.com and Easy Peasy All-in-one Homeschool. I also just make some crafts myself.
This format has been working well for us. Aryi thought we were playing and reading books like always, but we were learning too. I plan to have this basket out for the next two weeks then move on to G, so come back for that. Aryi comes to me and says basket, basket like 5 times a day. He enjoys this so much. To him it is play, to me, he is learning.
Number Basket:
I am keeping this number basket pretty much the same. I removed the tactile flashcards so I could put 4 and 5 in my letter basket. I have peg boards with the numbers 1-10. I also have all of our number books in here: ”Numbers”, “How Many?”, “Counting with Barefoot Critters”, “Big and Little”, “Let’s Count”, “Baby Math”, “Poppy’s Surprise”, “Few and Many”, and “Pop-up Peekaboo Numbers”. I also threw in some wooden animals to use as manipulatives. I have 1 pig, 2 lions, and 3 bears. The bears can also be broken down, 1 is a polar bear and 2 are brown bears. Two of the animals are little and three of the animals are big. I play number videos such as Count to 15 by The good and the beautiful and Ice cream counting by Number blocks. These will be linked below. I also love the alphablocks. That can be found on Netflix.
Check out the related Youtube video by clicking the link below.