Toddler Curriculum

We've been using the new Experience Toddler curriculum this month.  It's set up a bit differently from the Experience Preschool curriculum, but it's still really easy to use.  Each week focuses on a different book and has activities that go along with it.  It's a great preschool curriculum for younger kids.

The week we focused on a forest friends book about resourcefulness.  The Experience Preschool curriculum also comes with he same forest friend book so you can easily use both preschool curriculum with multiple ages at the same time.  

We started by learning the sign for fall, then we read the book.  Every time I said fall/fell/fallen the kids would drop a pom pom into a bowl to make it fall.  Ronan loved using the pom poms and after we were done with the story he continued to drop them into the bowl and dump them out and start over.  One of the nice things about the Experience Toddler program is that it comes with a monthly CD with all 4 stories recorded as a read aloud.  While we worked on the rest of the activities we listened to the CD and got to hear the story again.  

Ronan worked on building bridges with popsicle sticks in play dough.  This is good fine motor practice and he loves using play dough.  

While Ronan worked with play dough Elli used the play money from the preschool curriculum to do math problems.

She made a wallet to keep her play money in.  

While Elli was designing her wallet Ronan got to sponge paint a triangle tree.  Triangle is the shape of the month and it is reinforced with games, crafts, math work, etc.