Lesson Plan: Colors week!

These next 2 weeks will be Colors week. Basically a review of all the "basic colors"

The basis of this week will be a personal favorite "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?"

Each day of the week will have a color theme this week will cover brown, red, yellow, blue and green.

Keep in mind my goal here is to keep things light and play oriented. These are just a few ideas at the end of the week I will post a review (both of what she liked and didn't) and include any other ideas I came up with.


Day1: Brown Bear
Color brown bear picture & hang
pretend to be a bear and talk about bears (where it lives, what it eats, and other interesting facts)
Brown snack: chocolate pudding
find and discuss other things that are brown 

Day2: Red Bird
color red bird picture & hang
pretend to be a bird and talk about birds
Red Snack: strawberries
find and discuss other things that are red

Day3: Yellow Duck
color yellow duck & hang
pretend to be a duck and talk about ducks
Yellow snack: bananas
find and discuss other things that are yellow

Day4: Blue Horse
color blue horse & hang
pretend to be a horse and talk about horses
Blue snack: blueberries
find and discuss other things that are blue

Day5: Green Frog
color green frog & hang
pretend to be a frog and talk about frogs
Green snack: apples
find and discuss other things that are green


Another idea: Color coordinate your little ones clothing (and your own!) to the color of the day. I would do this but I like Sophia's clothes to be colorful and well I'm not sure we actually have many solid color shirts.

Toddler lesson plans

I know in my previous post I discussed how I believe in learning through play. So it might be confusing to hear "lesson plans" and associate them with play.

I assure you. I have no intentions of tying my 22month old to a chair and making her work. In reality the lesson plans are a place and a way for me to assemble my ideas into one area to read off for the week. I guess they're less "lesson" and more "activity" plans.

In August after her birthday I plan on using the alphabet Tot School printables from 1+1+1=1.

Until then I plan on doing basic lessons to get her used to the idea of Tot School and familiarize her more with some of the basics (colors, number, letter, etc.)

I also have a 10 month old along for the ride so most of the activities I do will also be baby friendly.

Blogs I've Been Inspired by

Fair word of warnings: As much as I plan to keep m own blog secular many of the blogs that have inspired me are religious.

This is by far my favorite blog about teaching toddlers. This blog is home to Tot School and is filled with many ideas.



I love this blog for soooo many reasons. Basically because its learning through play, something that is vastly over looked nowadays.



This blog has tons of really neat ideas to do with your toddler.


Diapers to Diplomas-  This blogger participates in 1+1+1=1's Tot School with a ton of great ideas of her own.



COAH has everything to do with homeschooling from little to big including one of the most popular Letter of the Week curriculum for PreK.



Another fun blog including a HUGE link up to sensory tub ideas.


I'm sure there will be many more blogs as the time goes on and I will certainly add them!

Welcome!

Welcome to At Home with Momma.

For those of you coming from my personal blog (S Momma) you already know everything you need to know about me. For those of you who found me elsewhere here are some things you should know.

I'm Izzy: wife to Carl and mother to 2 (soon to be 3!). At the time of writing this Sophia is 22 months old, Samuel is 10 months, and Saul is expected to join us mid September.

I'm a stay at home mother who prior to having children worked in a daycare facility, babysat for years, and helped raise several other children.

I love reading and learning myself and through the help of this blog I hope to instill these traits in my children.