Toy Rotation 22
March 22, 2024
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Last week’s toys and books:
The last rotation we had out our last Lovevery playkit along with a cute little garden themed shelf. Aryi played with every single toy, I think I will have to bring this little garden back out before spring is over.
This week’s toys and books:
This week we have a theme of Transportation and Colors. I wanted to bring out the cars again. I think we will do a really fun craft this week and paint with cars. I also pulled out all of our colorful toys. I also still have out our St. Patrick’s Day basket and Easter basket.
Transportation book (Amazon) – Since I have a transportation theme, I thought of grabbing this book. It is really the only transportation book we have. We talk about cars and things that go on our outings, but don’t really read much about them. I want to change that.
All Transportation toys (Amazon, Lovevery, Kiwico, and Carters) – Aryi loves his cars. It is so much fun to bring them out.
Colorful books (Lovevery and Amazon) – With the color theme, of course I had to bring out color books.
Penguins on Ice (Knowledge Crate) – These penguins are such a great tool for learning colors, numbers, and patterns.
Colorful Bears (Amazon) – These are also a great tool for learning colors and numbers.
Poster (Lovevery) – More color fun
Peg Board (Lovevery) – More color fun
Ring stacker (Lovevery) – More color fun
Color Spinner (Lovevery) – I think Aryi might be getting a little older for this toy. I thought I would bring it out anyway and see.
Letter Basket:
This week we are switching to a Gg basket. The videos I will be playing are The Good and The Beautiful ABCs and ABC sounds, the letter Gg song from ABC mouse, the Letter Gg from ABCmouse, How to write the Letter Gg from ABCmouse, A to Z by ABC mouse, Alphabet Surprise Turn and Learn Letter Gg, The Letter Gg Song from Miss. Molly and Grace the Goat 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 Gg and it says gggggg. We go through words that start with the Letter Gg. I pull out the items as we go through the words. For Gg, I have a ghost, garden, glue, glasses, giraffe, grey, green, and a Gg block. I have an alphabet puzzle with letters A-G 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 Gg words; ‘Giraffes Can’t Dance’ and ‘Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons’. I got the Gg word books from the library. This is a great way for us to practice our Gg sound when Aryi points to the things in the book and says what they are. Then we can do a Gg 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 H, 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 put the tactile flashcards back in. 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.
You can check out the related Youtube video by clicking the link below.