Ocean Animals
Maddie is 16 months old.
Math - Color Matching Sea Animals
We are still working on color matching. She's about 60% accurate right now, but she enjoyed this!
Practical Life - Transferring Ocean Animals
Maddie was SO good at this one, and loved it too! Her one to one correspondence is really improving.
Fun - Finding Nemo
We had never watched this movie before, so Ocean Week seemed like the perfect chance! Maddie kept saying "fishie, fishie!"
Practical Life - Pouring Blue Rice
Ha. I'm crazy, giving a young toddler a pouring activity. This... turned into a sensory activity. There was no pouring happening this time!
Art - Do a Dot Ocean Animals
I was surprised how many dots actually made it into the right spots! Mostly she just enjoyed playing with the dot markers.
Literacy - Themed books
This was the favorite of all the books we read this week! Which is great, because we'll be using it in May as part of our Feelings unit as well. :)
Farm Animals
Maddie is 16 months old.
Sensory - Pigpen Sensory Bin
This was a HUGE hit! My normally shy sensory child dug right in once she realized it was taste safe (chocolate pudding ;) ). She played for over half an hour with the pigs and the "mud."
Sensory - Washing Animals
Another fun sensory activity. She had so much fun washing the animals with a little sponge and playing in all the soap bubbles! We worked on animal sounds as we washed each animal as well.
Literacy - Themed Books
Click Clack Moo was the favorite this week!!
Dramatic Play - Little People Farm
We played with the Little People farm all week, pretending to care for the animals.
Rain
Maddie is 17 months old.
Sensory - Rain Themed Sensory Bin
She was actually not a big fan of this bin the first few days. She refused to touch anything but the peg people for a while. By the end of the week, she would scoop the rocks and played a little more, but something about this turned her off. Maybe the fuzzy clouds? I'm not entirely sure.
Art - Making Raindrops
I drew the umbrella, she added the rain. She LOVED this. Again, she's really into the dot markers lately!
Practical Life - Pouring "Rain"
I decided to try pouring again. This time was much improved!! She successfully poured the rice maybe three times before turning it into more of a sensory activity. :)
Music - Singing
We sang LOTS of songs about rain this week, which she loved.
Misc. - Book Kit
We checked out the rain book kit from the library, which had a rainstick and lots of fun books and songs to sing.
Snow
Maddie is 17 months.
Sensory - Snow Sensory Bin
I froze Epsom salts and added glitter to make a "snow" effect. Maddie LOVED this bin! She spent lots of time in it this week.
Art - Painting Ice
She painted a big block of ice with the watercolors. This was the first time using the watercolors and they were a big hit!
Art - Glitter Snowflake
I put down glue in the shape of a snowflake, and Maddie poured glitter on it. She was so proud of this! We hung it on the fridge and she had to show EVERYONE who came to our house. :)
Misc. - Book Kit
We checked out the snow book kit from our library, which had lots of books, a snowman movie, and a snowman puppet that Maddie loved!
We also did a sunshine week, but I don't have any pictures or remember much of what we did. We had a cloud week on the books, but didn't make it to any of those activities either.
