Tuesday/Thursday 2-AM Toddler Lab

April 4, 2019
Breanne Livingston
This Week’s Activities

Free Play Activities:

Flop & Drop: Water Animals- Toddlers will have the opportunity to listen to stories about different water animals and stories about different bodies of water.
They will also be able to explore the water animal stuffed animals.    
Block Center: Blocks, Cars & Signs- Toddlers will have the opportunity to build towers with blocks and add to their creations cars and road signs. Toddlers will
learn the meaning of a single road sign.
Dramatic Play: Let’s Go To the Bakery!- Toddlers will have the opportunity to play in a bakery setting as they pretend to make/eat cookies, cupcakes and other
treats and interact with their peers using the cash registers in the area.
Inside Gross Motor: Rocking Boat with Sea Animals- Toddlers will have the opportunity to interact with their peers and take turns as they rock on the rocking
boat. They will be introduced to animals who live in the ocean.
Large Group Activity:
5 Little Speckled Frogs- Toddlers will have the opportunity to sing-a-long to the song 5 Little Speckled Frogs and jump in place while wearing frog bracelets.
They will then have the opportunity to choose what we do for our next two large group activities. Their choices are; dancing with scarves to the Move Your
Feet song; singing the Hello song while feeding their picture to happy the hippo; wearing kitty cat ears while doing the actions and singing the song Ten Little
Kitty Cats Lying in the Sun; and doing the actions while wearing dinosaur hats to the song We Are the Dinosaurs.
Outdoor Activities:
1st Outdoor Activity: Zoom Zoom- Toddlers will have the opportunity to ride in the Little Tike Cars and Wagons outside.
2nd Outdoor Activity: Gardening-Toddlers will have the opportunity to use shovels, buckets, and watering cans as they dig in the dirt and plant a garden .
Inclement Weather Activity:
Playdough & Playdough Toys- The toddlers will have the opportunity to mold and make shapes with playdough.
Home Activity:
This week in class we will focus on movement. The children will play and explore with friends at different activities that will encourage movement
using different muscles. Some of the activities include; building towers of three blocks or more and using fine motor skills to drive the plastic cars and wooden
trucks around the block area, using full body movement at the gross motor area to rock the rocking boat back and forth, using their legs to get around the
playground area in the Little Tike Cars and using shovels, buckets and watering cans to scoop the sand up. Teachers will encourage children to use both large
motor muscles and small motor muscles through modeling how to do each of the activities in each area. Teachers will involve all children in play, that way they
can interact positively with their peers.
At home, you can encourage your child to participate in movement by having them get on and off of objects or crawl in and out of objects. For example,
encourage them to use a common household item such as crawling up the stairs or make an obstacle course using pillows and blankets for them to crawl in
and out of. To go along with this handout, we’ve created a DIY scarf as an object for movement. You can encourage your toddler to move around the room,
while waving the scarf in the air. Add their favorite music and encourage them to dance around with it. Maybe have them wave it high and low or side to side.
As your children participate in different movement activities, they will be able to start using both large motor muscles and small motor muscles. They will also
be able to gain skill and coordination through active play that involves movement.