Mother Teacher Scatterbrain

I decided that I want to take more pictures of my baby. I want to do more than share them on Facebook though. I came across the idea for a personalized alphabet book on Pinterest. Beautiful books can be printed at any of the major photo developers, so why not add the text and get a book made! This will not only be educational, but also a lovely memory book. I will be using this post and the comments section to brainstorm what types of pictures to use.

So today, I went on the Georgia's Bright From the Start website and looked at the Parent Activity Guide - Two Year Old Standards.. This document lists several fun developmentally appropriate activities for two year olds. Anyways, in this document, I found several activities for which play dough are useful. Additionally, I found a recipe for DIY play dough. I could tell from looking at their ingredients that it was quite a large batch. I chose to make four small batches. I also added some additional instructions and an ingredient. The recipe I used is below.


INGREDIENTS:
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup salt
1 tablespoon cream of tartar (Found in the baking aisle, this acts as a preservative, keeping the play dough from drying out.)
Food coloring or Kool-Aid (Optional)
1/2 cup boiling water (Boiling water makes the dry ingredients mix better)
1 1/2 teaspoon cooking oil

DIRECTIONS:
Begin boiling water.
Combine dry ingredients: flour, salt, cream of tartar, and Kool-Aid if you chose to color this way. (I used the container in which I intended to keep the play dough--a disposable Tupperware bowl from the grocery store.) Mix the dry ingredients together.
Combine the wet ingredients: oil, water, and food coloring if you chose to color this way. (I put the food coloring in the water because it makes for more even color in the play dough.)

We did a lot today and will continue with this for a while (until Baby gets it or gets bored!) Cilck on the baby to read the rest of the post!


So today we did some rote counting. We counted with Greg and Steve.

We worked with the letter M using the following:

Mimi Mouse's song and a larger image

Object box with a man, Mickey Mouse, and a mitten

And with Coilbrook's Shawn the Train

More on the letter M.

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We also reviewed colors and counted as we strung beads for fine motor skills.

I read my own Bible verses (Genesis 1:1-2:3) aloud to him. He pretended to read along with one of his own books. As I wrote this on paper, he pretended to write as well.

We also watched a bit of Muzzy in French.


Additional resources:
Coilbrook's Shawn the Train
Colors
Counting
Shapes

Greg and Steve
Numbers
Days
Months

Dr. Jean
Alphabets

From Harry Kindergarten:
2D shapes
3D Shapes
Count to 20

Here is a months video

Here is another M song

We will also begin with A Rhyme A Week: Jack and Jill. (Lesson Plan, Poster, Riddle Rhymes for Older Kids, Picture Cards)

And my son loves this rat!