Kent was 21 months old. I found so many cute chick activities while searching for Easter ideas! We raise a couple hundred chickens a year here, plus we have some laying hens wandering around. Our first batch of day-old chicks arrived on April 5th. We learned all about chicks and chickens that week! I picked up this cool life cycle of a chicken set at the Chippewa Nature Center. We used it as the basis for the week’s activities. I put some white, yellow, and orange feathers in his sensory bin. At first I added only the nest and eggs figurine. We talked about eggs and decorated an egg coloring page. Each day I added another figurine and talked to him about what it was. Then we laid out each day’s coloring picture and matched up them up with the figurines. We colored a hen on the fourth day and a rooster on the fifth day, even though the set only has one adult bird. He recognized rooster, hen, etc. when we used those words but I explained that the rooster is the daddy, the hen is the mama, and the chick is the baby. That made a big impression
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Tot School: January (Purple and Color Review)
Kent was 18 months old. We kind of wandered through January. I tried to rotate the tot trays so that he had fun stuff to play with but I didn’t do a lot of planning or set any real goals. We spent some time on the color purple. At some point I realized that even though we’d covered most of the colors I still wasn’t really sure if Kent knew and recognized them. There was a time when he would accurately point the “the red ball” or the “green tree” in his books, but other times that he would point to something else. So, we did some fun color review activities. After working through them I could tell that he did recognize most colors, with normal errors and confusion over similar colors. It’s just good to know where we’re at. Where are you at with learning colors? What are your favorite color activities?
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