Young Toddlers R Learning Fun Time Activity Curriculum 12 – 18 Months Daily Lesson Plans - Fall October Week 3         Day 1   Post a notice: Let the parents know that you need small water bottles, variety of jar lid covers, variety of clean metal cans with no sharp edges, large boxes, shoe boxes, Kleenex boxes, dish pans, contact paper, magnetic tape, cardboard egg cartons, sturdy plastic cups such as yogurt cups, clear packaging tape, duck tape, sturdy safe bangle bracelets for the toddler activities and collect them up for this week and future weeks.   Post a note on the door and ask for Donations for Toddler Activities, most parents will bring in a few items.   Teaching Picture: Veggies     On the down load page you will find the printable pages and print out today’s picture. Tape the picture to the wall in a location where the toddlers can see it.   As you show the picture to children, talk about the picture, tell the children about the picture. Talking to the toddlers is a good way for them to get started on using their own language skills. The more words a toddler hears the more he learns, even if he/she is not talking yet, they are listening and learning and all of a sudden they will be talking.   Refer to the language development section below for a few suggestions on things to talk about with toddlers about the picture, the language development will give you suggestion on things to talk about or it will show an activity, rhyme or story and then continue talking to the children about the picture, using your own words.   Keep in Mind:  Any and all printed material is not safe for toddlers.  So do not give any printouts to the children unless you are supervising them. These are for you to hold up or attach to the wall. Look at your toddlers and in a soothing voice talk about the picture:       Music: Folk Music Play folk music for the children today.     Please Note: You can check at your local library and try to borrow some folk music to play for the toddlers, if they do not have folk music, try to select some different types of music to play for the children, such as; blues, classical, country, soft rock, etc.   Play the music softly throughout the day in the background and it would be nice to play it quietly during naptime also to help the children settle down to go to sleep and keep them sleeping with a soft back ground noise.    Language Development: Print out the veggie book and read it to the children.   You will need: Card stock paper (available from Wal-Mart) Clear Contact Paper Yarn or string 3 Hole Punch   Teacher will need to print out the veggie book onto card stock paper. Then cover the pages with clear contact paper to make them durable. Next, teacher will need to 3 hole punch down the side and then tie the pages together with yarn and tie securely.   Teacher will read the book to the children and show them the pictures.       Songs/Finger Rhymes: This Is The Way We Drop The Veggies Tune to: “Here we go round the mulberry bush”   This is the way we drop the veggies, drop the veggies, This is the way we drop the veggies, Early this fall morning.   This is the way we pick the veggies, Pick the veggies, pick the veggies, This is the way we pick the veggies, Early this fall morning.   Sing the song above and as you sing the song, drop some plastic toy veggies about the room and then as you sing “this is the way we pick the veggies”, encourage the children to help you pick up the veggies.   Safety Note: Make sure all the plastic veggies are sturdy and safe for the toddlers to play with, make sure they are not too small to choke on.   Group Activity: Drop the veggies   You will need: Plastic toy veggies Brown Construction Paper Clear Contact Paper Hot Glue Gun (teacher only) Large Jar Covers   You will need a few sheets of brown construction paper and cover these with clear contact paper and then teacher will need to cut the brown construction paper lengthwise to make two strips. (Use glue gun when children are not present)Then teacher will need to hot glue some large jar covers down the strips of paper. The contact paper is slippery so make sure you lay these against the wall so the children do not slip on them.   Lay plastic toy veggies across the jar covers that are hot glued onto the contact paper in rows like in a garden and show the children how to pick the veggies up. Tell the children its harvest time and we need to pick the veggies. Then show the children how to re-plant the garden, by placing the veggies back into the covers.   Recite the poem below with the children while picking the veggies.   1, 2, 3 pick veggies with me 1, 2, 3, pick veggies with me and you will see how fun it can be.     Safety Note: Make sure that none of the veggies are too small that the children could choke on them, always check with a choke tube. Make sure when the activity is over to put the contact paper with the jar lids away.   Art/Sensory Activity: Carrot   You will need: Carrot Print out Thick Orange Crayons Packaging Tape   Have the children color their carrot picture with non toxic thick orange crayons. Place packaging tape securely around the crayon, leave the top part for coloring, this will help the crayons not to break.   Please Note: Make sure the children do not put the art materials into their mouths. If they do, try to direct their attention onto their art activity and if they continue to put the art materials in their mouth, try to offer them something they can chew on, such as a teething ring. If this doesn’t work you may need to remove the item that they are putting in their mouth and substitute something safer for them to use or remove them from the area and try again later.   Taking Pictures Home: Make sure parents know that the pictures are not toys; they are to be hung up as decorations or put away as memories not given to the children to play with as they could choke on the small pieces of paper if not being watched.     Play Time: Cooking Veggies   You will need: Small toy pots Child safe spoons Plastic toy veggies   Provide the children with some small toy pots or “real ones” with adult supervision and some child safe spoons and plastic veggies to pretend to cook.   To make it more fun offer them some sturdy plastic toy dishes to put the veggies onto.   Learning Activity: Peg Board Fun   Push the wooden clothespins into an egg carton and take them back out, like picking carrots from the garden.   You Will Need: Egg Carton Old Fashioned Clothespins Box Cutter or Utility knife (Teacher Only)   This activity needs to be supervised at all times!   You will need an egg carton per child. Teacher will turn the egg cartons over and cut a hole into the bottom of each egg cup, and then carefully turn the scissors in a circle inside each hole to widen it. Then you will need some old fashioned clothespins and show them how to stick the clothespins into the hole in the bottom of the egg carton, supervise at all time, when this activity is done, remove the egg carton, and the clothespins.       Nursery Rhyme: I Like Veggies   Tune to: “Are You Sleeping” I like corn, I like corn. Do you too? Do you too? I like peas and carrots, I like peas and carrots. How about you? How about you?     Print out Corn, peas and carrots print out and point to the foods as you sing the song.   Please Note: Young toddlers enjoy being read to and thrive and learn from listening to stories, songs, poetry and nursery rhymes. So please read and sing a lot to the children in your care!   View October - Younger Toddler Curriculum Week Two Calendar Below Available Now !! Ages 12 to 18 Months Below you can view our NEW "Young Toddler" activity calendar for October - Week 2 Weekly Schedule Young Toddlers 12 - 18 Months October Week 2       Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Today’s Music     Folk Music Soft Rock   Classical Music   Country Music Blues Music Language Development   I am A Pumpkin Pumpkin Eyes P Is For Pammy Circles   Shaker Toy Song/ Finger Rhyme Orange Pumpkin   Can you find a pumpkin   123 Find the Letter P   1, 2, 3 Clap With Me Happy Pumpkin, Sad Pumpkin   Group Activity   Fun with Pumpkins Find the Pumpkins     Bottle Peg Board Walk around the Pumpkin Roll the Pumpkin Art/Sensory     Clean Up Time Orange Play Dough   P is for Pumpkin   Orange Pumpkin   Pretty Pumpkin   Play Time     Find the Pumpkins   Drop the Cards Find the P   Smooth or Rough Circle Sticky Toes Learning Time     Rollers and Rings Circle Puzzle Mega Block Fun Fun with Covers   Sorting Fun   Nursery Rhyme     Where is Pumpkin? Three little pumpkins   P is for Pumpkin   Little Green Pumpkin   Where is pumpkin?