The wheel hunt game on page 23 of your home activity book should have you both on a roll for a while.
This week, take the game off the page. Look for wheels wherever you go. Finding these wheel shapes is an important step in your toddler’s development, symbolizing his ability to form categories in his mind—an important skill for school someday.
You’ll find them in obvious places like cars and buses, but your toddler may notice wheels in places you’ve never seen before.
Enjoy your hunt, and “wheel” see each other next time!
Kindermusik’s Foundations of Learning - some of the benefits your child received from today’s activities are:
Emotional Security: Running and jumping into the arms of an adult is a favourite game of young children. It allows children to practice and master the skills of running and jumping and/or leaping. It also has meaningful emotional content. Knowing that Daddy or Grandma will catch her when she jumps is a display of trust and represents a level of emotional security in the relationship.
Word Acquisition: Exposure to a variety of movement words helps children link movement and language at a time when word acquisition is occurring at a fast pace. “Between the ages of 18 months and 4 years, children are comprehending, on average, one new word for every hour they’re a wake. By age 4, most kids know around 10,000 words.” – Dr. Dare Baldwin, Cited in “How to Talk to a Toddler” by Christina Frank, Parenting April/1999
