Do A Toy Rotation With Me #27
May 16, 2024
For some background introduction information on toy rotations see my first toy rotation blog at by clicking the link.
Last week’s toys and books:
We really enjoyed continuing our Eric Carle theme with colors and puzzles this past week. We played with all of the toys and enjoyed all of the books over the past week.
Knowledge Crate Sensory Bin and Art Projects:
March was Eric Carle month. Because of this, the Knowledge crate we get themed their spring box after Eric Carle. This gave me the idea to do our own Eric Carle month. Since March was so busy with St. Patrick’s Day and Easter, I decided to do it in April instead. I will be using everything that came in the crate. I put out the sensory bin supplies that came in this kit in a sterilite container on the top shelf of our toy rotation for Aryi to ask for when he wants it. Since we just went on our beach trip, I am also keeping our beach sensory bin from Knowledge crate out on the shelf to be played with when asked for.
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Letter Basket:
This week we are keeping our Ii basket. The videos I will be playing are linked below if you are interested in playing them yourself.
I say the letter and show it to Aryi. Then I will say the letter sound. This is a Ii and it says iiiii. We go through words that start with the Letter Ii. I pull out the items as we go through the words. For Ii, I have ice cream, insects, and an I block with ice cream and an iron on it. I have an alphabet puzzle with letters A-I 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 Ii words; ‘I Like Bugs, ‘Pattern Bugs’,’ and ‘i’ (I explained that bugs are insects and we are using the word insect when reading these books). I got the Ii word books from the library. This is a great way for us to practice our Ii sound when Aryi points to the things in the book and says what they are. Then we can do an Ii 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 Jj, 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 that I find on youtube sometimes.
You can check out the related Youtube video by clicking the link below.