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Animal Sounds – Foam Ball Catch
The ball we used was soft and safe for indoor use. It also had animal pictures all over. When we caught the ball we named an animal and said their sound. We got this ball from the dollar store. There are many adaptations to this […]
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Leapfrog Phonic & Alphabet Matching
Derek had fun singing and dancing along to songs including the Alphabet Song. We placed individual magnetic letter tiles on the bus window and then we pressed to hear it pronounce the letter’s name and sound correctly. Derek was able to say some of the […]
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Colouring w/Crayola Colour Wonder
Colour Wonder inks are clear, and colours appear only on the special Color Wonder paper. We explored the colours appearing on the paper. Derek is still very much into scribbling still so nothing he makes looks like anything but the stories he tells me about […]
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Magic Appearing Alphabet Letters
I wrote uppercase letters with a permanent marker on one piece of paper towel. I then wrote the lowercase letters on another piece of paper towel with a different coloured permanent marker. I placed both pieces of paper towel on top of one another so […]
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Glitter Alphabet – Sensory Bottles
We added glitter, alphabet sequence and mineral oil to make these bottles. He noticed the letters fall and it reminded him of the alphabet falling out of the tree in the chicka chicka boom boom book. The whole process took about five minutes to make […]
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Coconut Tree – Matching/Dabber
Derek was given a lowercase alphabet card, find the matching letter on the coconut tree and then do a dot it. I knew he would need some assistance but for the most part he should be capable of doing an activity like this. He was […]
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Matching
Found these cute alphabet cards online that matched the story. Printed and laminated them for Derek to play with. I had him match uppercase to uppercase and lowercase to lowercase. He did the uppercase well and matched them all. He then lost interest part way […]
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Paint
We followed up yesterday’s activity by doing a craft today. I painted Derek’s feet and hands and turned them into a tree. Then once it was dry I had Derek add some letter stickers to make it look like the tree from the story. He […]
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree
This is Derek’s favorite book so I made him a tree to go with the story. I made the tree out of soup cans and some paper. With the metal of the cans we were able to use magnetic letters. This way the letters would […]
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Indoor Toddler Obstacle Course
When its May but still too cold to play outside you improvise by creating an Indoor obstacle course to keep your toddler busy.