Do A Toy Rotation With Me #30
June 6, 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:
Last week we pulled out mostly old toys for younger children and babies. I wanted to see if Aryi would still be interested to play with all the toys. He actually did. He found fun new ways to play with them all. He put the stacker rings on his arms. We sorted buttons into the sorter rings (they are the same colors). He put everything and anything down the stacker tube. Aryi made so much progress putting the button board buttons in the right place to complete the pattern. He mastered the 2 sided puzzle. He really enjoyed every toy that was out.
This week’s toys and books:
This week we are going into June, Pride Month! I pulled out all the rainbows. We are going to have so much fun with color this week. I am very excited about that.
Stuffy Basket – Always out and available.
Ball Basket – Always out and available.
Music Basket – Always out and available. Keeping these the same this week.
Metronome (Lovevery)
Bells (Lovevery)
Shakers (Kiwico)
Rainbow Stacking Cups and Containers (Lovevery) – Color stacking fun. I always pull these out together. They just go to me. I hope Aryi can work on the twisting container, it is the only one he hasn’t mastered yet.
Tissue Box (Lovevery) – I wanted to pull this out because it hasn’t been out in a while to see if Aryi is still interested. It also has beautiful different colored and patterned tissues.
Rainbow Stacker (Lovevery) – Color fun and stacking fun.
Rainbow Penguins (Knowledge Crate) – There are so many things to do with these penguins.
Color Game (Kiwico) – Color matching fun.
Themed Books – I have books about different kinds of families, hair, disability, and language. I think it is great to have books that show how we are different and expose us to different types of people and lifestyles. We believe everyone is beautiful and our differences make us such. I also have a few color books mixed in.
Extra Stuff Basket – This will always be out and available now. Basically this is a basket of stuff to do when we get bored with what is out. It includes coloring books, ABC flashcards, outdoor activity flashcards, animals, ISPYS, Library crafts and extra crafts we didn’t get to yet.
Rain Rain Go Away Prints (ThisMomThing on Etsy) – These are the printables I made. We love to go over these. I pulled out 2 weather books to go with this.
Letter coloring sheets and tracing sheets – Always out and available.
Books – Always out and available.
Duplo Blocks (gift but you can find it on Amazon) – Always out and available.
Magnetic Tiles (Amazon) – Always out and available.
Blockset (Lovevery) – Always out and available.
Pegboard (Kiwico) – Aryi had lots of fun with it this week, I still think there is a lot to explore. He mastered the rings, but we are still working on the bars.
Rainbow (Amazon) – We can practice the order of the rainbow, the colors, putting the pieces together, or just stack it.
Rainbow Dot Catcher (Lovevery) – Color matching fun.
Ready to go Pee/Poop Books (Lovevery) – We are planning on potty training soon, so I wanted to feature these books.
Knowledge Crate Prints (Knowledge Crates/ThisMomThing on Etsy) – These are fun songs and fingerplays to learn with Aryi.
Ocean Sensory Bin (Knowledge Crates) – For when we have more than 30 minutes to pull out something a little messy.
Eric Carle Sensory Bin (Knowledge Crates) – For when we have more than 30 minutes to pull out something a little messy.
Rainbow busy bin – I made this busy bin around St. Patrick’s Day/Easter so that we could play with colors. June is the perfect time to bring this back out.
Letter Basket:
This week we are changing to a letter Jj 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 Jj and it says jjjjj. We go through words that start with the Letter Jj. I pull out the items as we go through the words. For Jj, I have a jaguar, juice, and an Jj block. I have an alphabet puzzle with letters A-J 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 Alphabet books; ‘see, touch, feel ABC’, ‘abc’, ‘Once Upon an Alphabet’, ‘A is for Apple’ and ‘AB See”. I have books that feature Jj words; ‘Jungle Book’, ‘Jump’,’ and ‘Bubbles’ (one of the main characters is a jellyfish). I got the Jj word books from the library. This is a great way for us to practice our Jj sound when Aryi points to the things in the book and says what they are. Then we can do a Jj 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 Kk, 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.