Toddler Curriculum- Typical Day Homeschooling

hello everyone today I'm going to show you how I teach my toddler at home I have a two-year-old and we use a hands-on approach to teach basic concepts that will get her ready for preschool and kindergarten so today I'll show you a typical day what it looks like what we do and some of the resources so the first thing that we do is we do a flashcard session for about five minutes in the morning and I keep a flashcard here these we will now use today for example these guys reached out and so we have letters colors we have some fruit flowers that I've made and I make flashcards very easily just find pictures online and print them out laminate them I also have some flashcards that I use I have numbers I have nouns around the home mr. Lawry language or the iPod and also other language cards there in the back so this takes about five minutes to go over the flashcards that I use for the day then we do five minutes of the toddler learning folder and the Tyler internal folder is a folder that has puzzles and matching activities inside the help teach basic concepts as well on the side you're going to see that I have little tabs so whatever I have on my lesson plan for the day is what I will be opening up to so let me show you guys for example you're doing colors today so I'll have her do her little matching activity in which I take these off and have a match black orange gray and I try to have her say the name of the colors as well try to develop and stimulate um language um speech as well here we have another one that we're doing today which is color shape sorting and so then she will be sorting the little shapes by shape and by color so there's two attributes here it's a little harder and lastly we will be doing matching garments here so this is good visual discrimination practice and also good vocabulary development as they learn the names code sweater and again I try to have her repeat after me or also tell me the name of the items here to develop speech and I'll put a link in the description box where you guys can get the Tyler Learning folder then after that we move on to the alphabet chart so we go over the alphabet and over the letter sounds ah but the so on and then um before we start doing our hands-on activities on the shelf we usually have some type of puzzle that she starts off with here on the table just to get her little brain working today we have Melissa and Doug um shapes puzzle here and so we'll go over the names of these shapes and also the Congress over here you want to see a little sticker chart I reward her when I see that she has put effort towards something when I see that she had done something L standing once she has filled up that chart she can go into our price pick and now post a link in the description box where you can see our reward system and how we reward the children down here we have a little free play bed and in there she gets to pick out the toys that she wants for the week so every couple of days we do rotate these out and she can pick anything that she's interested in then over here we have our hands-on activities and this is a system that I developed called shelf work and it's a hands-on way of teaching basic concepts I started off using this with my oldest who is now 4 and I saw remarkable results with her and I saw how much love she developed for learning and how quickly she learned so let me go ahead and show you guys how I set up this system is set up in two categories so every bin has a different purpose the first bin here is numbers so right now we're focusing on numbers 1 through 20 and we're focusing on number quantity 1 through 5 so I have these little bear counters and I have these little paper plates and I have sticker dots on them put numbers 1 through 5 and so the child would take the Bears and put the matching bears on top of each of these so teachers number quantity also teaches color sorting and one-to-one correspondence as they place one bear on top of one dot so this is what I have today for math for numbers and I usually try to have different activities based on the things that we're learning for the year and I will show you our standards at the end of the video here so that is numbers then we have phonics so for phonics we try to have some type of literacy activity that she does and I also read to her I read her a fiction and a nonfiction book here we have that's not my meerkat and animal babies and then we have an old bingo game that I repurposed and basically I went ahead and I cut out some of the older mats of this bingo game and I made it into a matching game cake cake chair chair so she's learning the vocabulary she's matching visual discrimination and also in the same session I will go over the letter sounds Fox car and so on so that's tough language activities a little easier to do that half for the day very simple and I then guys I have all the activities set out in bins already so all I have to do is go into for example my literacy bin and get an activity out go into my math bin and get an activity hour everything is set out so here another pen that we have here is life skills and here we have different activities that focus on pouring scooping spawning cleaning little items is not so inspired today she's doing a sorting activity in which she matches sucks this is a life skill activity as I call it these are life school activities and so they learn different things about life and about early daily living she goes on a mattress and it's good visual discrimination practice life skills then we have logic and I am so big on logic with kids I also have a logic bin because I think problem-solving and critical thinking are just crucial so here we have a little activity with blocks and I have laminated and put these little puzzle pieces on there and I'll put a link on the description box if you're interested in getting it for free from my blog basically using these blocks to put these together and this is good for fine motor skills as well and she needs to figure out how it falls like this like this this go together no these puzzles together yes she goes on and on making the little animals so it's a fun hands-on way to do puzzles up here and this band is a miscellaneous man I don't have a label because I have different hands-on activities that I put in there and here we have these are actually supposed to be in fear aggression was already going through stuff this is a laminated map that I made got the pictures from the internet and then I got these from a little kitchen set that we had already and then she does matching cup knife spoon and so on and this teaches her the names of these eating utensils and also this for matching scope okay they will put this back here lastly we have our prewriting in here I thought about fine motor activities I try to have activities that develop the hands today we have coloring so I have this little container with her name on it and I have some oval crayons and some crayons for her and little pencil and then have a little coloring page for her today cut it from coloring pages kids calm and then should just color this dog as you want and I try to encourage a lot of coloring a lot of holding writing utensils so that still at the little hands are starting to be developed for writing yesterday she did this little play and she was coloring it in simple little things like this kids love and that's a sticker book Barbie sticker book um so I just try to have different things that develop the hair they also have fine motor skills activities in here they help develop fine motor skills through pincer grasp and the activities that I have here guys I have them on my blog I have them photographed by different categories so you can get ideas I'll post a link on the description box where you can see all of the different activities that I have by categories up here I a little bookshelf with her board books and she can feel free to grab board books and go over there and look through them here's a little basket with the author on stars so when she's going to encourage her to put a little star in it so that you know she's done with it and it kind of encourages her and motivates her to finish all of her bins she doesn't do this independently yet she works with me and this takes about 45 minutes whenever a day of nature saw we also read Mother Goose to her so I picked a couple of poems from here and I read them to her she loves mother Goose other resources that we use quickly want to show you that this video is getting a little long I use what your preschooler needs to know so today have a little little sticky tad on what I'm going to be reading so I'll be reading the Little Red Hand today to her I do a lot of read Aloud's from this book this book has song stories it has history science all types of different subjects poems and I pick different things to read from here and this should last us a while this should last us until she's like 3 or 4 years old to go through it another resource that I want to mention is slow and steady get me ready and this is 260 weekly developmental activities from birth to age 5 and this book shows you hands-on activities to do with children to help the child develop different things so for example for two-year-olds they develop knowledge of different shapes it's called a matching memory recall awareness and of similarities and differences and understanding of obedience and responsibility vocabulary and language enrichment simple problem solving simple fine and gross motor skills and confidence and independence and for each age they have different targets that they want that it have and this is a book that shows you different activities that you can do with items from around your home but you can easily easily make I don't do this every single week but I try to at least do one a week I'm here because they are weekly activity so you just do one a week and they are great they really do they teach you and they show you what the activity develops and how to create it I'm going to show you where you can get this book for free guys there is a place online where you can get it for free and I'll post a link on the description box a lot of you guys have asked me about my toddler standards I develop standards every year for my children for both of my children um for my kindergarten student I already have the standards set out that my state has mandated but I also include more for my toddler I have created my own standards and I have gotten um a lot of ideas from the world book and I post a link on the description box about the world book but I have created my own standards list here and it goes by different categories so for example here size understand big and small understand long and short understand small medium and large so when I do our hands-on activities over there for math for example I will put activities that will focus on these concepts and this keeps me on track because then the activities are meaningful and the activities that I am doing are meeting a specific goal and that is very important to me that I'm not just putting activities out there but that the activities are actually meeting goals then like I said I have different categories your colors and shapes recognizes and names primary colors and so on reading and vocabulary and then I have the data sets I do assess her I haven't started this year yet but I do assess her by doing the hands-on activities I can see if she has massive concept or not and I will put the date in once she got assessed here and position and direction time understand today tomorrow yesterday understand morning afternoon and night knows agent birthday it's outside by the hour and these are toddler standards so this can be for children 2 to 4 years old so these times will go on for me for the next year as well logic single sequence simple event cards complete puzzles 5 to 12 pieces understand which one does not belong in a set and let it and then here in the back I have think standards that I can write in that I want to focus on as well extra standards and so these standards like I said guys I have developed on my own and I have gotten some ideas from the world book in which I will link in the description box I think I have shared with you a basic overview of how we teach our child at home I hope that you have enjoyed the video and I hope that you guys get motivated to start teaching those little ones at home thank you so much for watching on to the next video bye

Channel: Jady A.

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Id: haqUdOV53d8

Length: 15min 50sec (950 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 10 2015