Toy Rotation 23
March 28, 2024
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Last week’s toys and books:
The last rotation we had out all of our vehicles along with various color toys. I am not going to talk much about these toys. Aryi had plenty of time to play with them. He enjoyed and played with them all, with the exception of the color spinner. Every time I do a toy rotation I am trying not to see if Aryi has outgrown a toy. If he has I will put it up permanently for another child to enjoy. This is the first toy he has outgrown in a while since most of his Lovevery, Kiwico, and other open ended toys have been growing with him. It makes me a little sad every time.
This week’s toys and books:
This week we have a theme of Music. Most of the toys that are out this week are musical instruments. I have out our entire Lovevery music kit, a xylophone (gift), drums (Amazon), piano (gift), and our music kit instruments (Amazon). I also have 2 music books from Kiwico kits. I also have the Easter basket out right now for the few weeks preceding Easter. I threw in a few more toys so it is not just music.
Button board (Lovevery) – I think this button board is great. Aryi has so much fun with it. That is why I pulled it out.
Stacking cups (Lovevery) – I know Aryi could use more time with these stacking cups, so I pulled those out.
Puzzle (Lovevery) – Aryi had so much fun with this puzzle, but he was not always getting the pieces in a square, so I brought it out again for him to work on it.
Lock box (Lovevery) – Aryi likes this toy but has not quite mastered it, so I pulled it out.
Drop boxes (Lovevery) – I got rid of the play gym for the week. I thought this was the best thing to put in it’s place.
Letter Basket:
This week we are keeping the 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.
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