We read Going to the Firehouse by Mercer Meyer (one of Bear’s independent reads) before going.

This is J-jo’s corner. 

Top Shelves: Math (counting and one to one correspondence)

Peg train


Homemade counting toy (colored pencils in Styrofoam block and beads from bead lacing)

Middle Shelf: Practical Life/Sensorial

Pouring green buttons

Guidecraft feel and find

Bottom Shelf: Sensorial

Guidecraft Shape Sorter

Plan Toy shape sorter

On the Table:

Toothpicks in parmesan container from last week

Parking Lot Counting – from Happy Brown House. I plan on using ours without a dice this week; it will be more for one to one correspondence and counting as opposed to number matching. 

/c/ Sound basket.  We’ve been saying Spell Outloud’s cat rhyme at circle time (as well as her astronaut one).

Had to leave this out for another week too.  Like the toothpicks, it was a big hit.  I have set it up so that the circles are on the floor and the slots are on the chair so that he has to squat to pick up the circles.  This increases physical activity and works his gross motor skills.

linked to 1+1+1=1 and Barefoot in Suburbia‘s Toddler Tuesday.

For the Preschooler:

Dear Mr. Blueberry is great for introducing how to write a letter with a salutation etc, but is also humorous because it is about a little girl who is convinced there is a blue whale in her pond.

Carmine A Little More Red – I love fractured fairy tales.  In fact, I may already have posted about this book, but we love it dearly.  I love how it has some fancy vocabulary like exquisite and knoll (although the word nincompoop is also in it).

How Rocket Loved to Read – either a Mouse Grows, Mouse Learns or Adventures in Mommydom recommendation.  J-jo loved the dog but wouldn’t sit through the story.  Bear loved the story and asked for it repeatedly.

For the Toddler:

Loved by both: