This Little Piggy

This month with Experience Early Learning we have been given the chance to review their new Experience Toddler curriculum.  It comes with 4 weekly themes, and just like their preschool curriculum everything is included.  Last weeks book was This Little Piggy, and all the activities for the week centered around this book.  Every day we reread the story, plus we also listen to it being read on the monthly CD.

The first day we read the book Ronan had to find where the pig was on every page.  He's just learning English so having him repeat words while matching them to pictures at the same time is helpful.

The Experience Toddler curriculum comes with 4 activity cards for each day.  One of the activities was using the 5 little pig stickers to retell the story.  Ronan worked on pulling the stickers off the sheet, which is a good fine motor activity, and then he colored the paper.  We listened to the story being told on the CD while he worked on this.  On of the great things about using Experience Early Learning as a preschool curriculum is that there are different curriculum levels to choose from.  There is one for babies, toddler, and preschoolers.  There is also a literacy/math workbook you can get for prek kids, a toy box option, and a Christian based curriculum.  It's nice having so many options in a preschool curriculum.

Ronan had to sort pink foam triangles into a pink cup, and yellow ones into the yellow cup.  I had to show him what to do quite a few times before he understood the colors needed separated, but once he understood it he easily sorted them out.  He even started saying yellow.  He really liked doing this and dumped them out a bunch of times and resorted them.  

We used the same triangles that were included in the Experience Toddler curriculum to work on pattern mats.  After that we danced to songs on the CD.  Ronan loves music so he always enjoys when songs are playing.