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Teacher Guide
Once I Saw a Little Bird
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WELCOME TO A WEEK OF
Once I Saw a Little Bird
Get Ready for the Day
This week, have your room ready for drop-off Discovery tables are open-ended sensory
with these featured Discovery Tables. Change the experiences that you set up in the morning for
tables each week with the new ideas presented at children to freely explore as they
the front of your weekly guide. arrive. These sensory discoveries will support
children as they transition from being with their
parent to settling into the school environment.
Discovery Table 1 Discovery Table 2
Squeeze, push, press down, stack up Scribble, tear, fill and spill
White Clouds Peekaboo Bird
Tape contact paper on a wall with sticky side out. Tape 4-5 bird pictures to the table then cover the
Put cotton balls in a bowl near the contact paper. table (including pictures) with sticky notes. Invite
Invite children to press on and pull off the cotton. children to lift a flap (sticky note) and hunt for the
bird pictures.
Circle Time with Toddlers
Each morning begin your day with Circle Time. We recommend you begin with a song. Explore
Toddlers love to move, so make your Circle Time the Touch Tool while you have a simple discussion
activities move, too. and end with a story.
Touch & Talk Tool ideas and key vocabulary:
Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5
Artifact Toy house 4 blue 5 white Letter W Water
Vocabulary
pompoms pompoms window, water, wash
window
four, blue five, white white
Discussion Tips
Use these simple questions to facilitate discovery- easily respond with a head nod or shake.
based discussions with your toddlers. Turn them For example: What color is it? Is it green?
into YES/NO questions for very young children to
What color is it? How does it smell? How many are there?
What shape is it? What does it remind you of? How does it feel?
Daily Schedule
Hello!
Hello!
9:00 a.m.
Arrival & Discovery Tables
Arrive and explore a discovery table or learning center. HelloGo!odbye Goodbye
9:15 a.m.
Circle Time with featured storybook
Talk about the day with a Touch & Talk Tool then enjoy storytime.
Goodbye
9:30 a.m.
Learning Centers with featured art project
Investigate this week’s learning centers and participate in today’s
new theme-related creative project.
Outdoor Discovery
Hel
10:30 a.m.
Hello!
Learning continues outside as children play.
lo!
11:15 a.m. Snack
Hello!
11:30 p.m.
Learning Centers with featured math/cognitive activity Goodbye
Investigate this week’s learning centers and participate in
Goo
dby
today’s new math or science project in one of the learning centers.
He
e
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Rest Hello!
2:30 p.m. Outdoor Discovery
Hel
Goodbye
lo!
3:30 p.m.
Closing Circle Time with choose-your-own storybook
Hello!
Talk about memories from the day, read a story and talk about tomorrow.
Music & Movement with featured song Hello!
3:45 p.m.
Sing and dance while strengthening coordination, muscles and teamwork. Goo
dby
Learning Centers Good bydby
Goo ee
e
4:00 p.m.
Revisit favorite activities and play with friends until pick up.
Establish a Daily Routine
A daily routine can help children feel safe and confident so
they can learn and take risks throughout day. Cut out and post
this recommended daily Toddler Schedule or create your own.
Recommended times to integrate the various types of Experience
Toddler Activities are noted in the Toddler Daily Schedule.
When to Integrate
Experience Toddler
Hello! Activities
During the Daily Schedule
Goodbye
Goodbye
Circle Time
Use the Purple Activity Cards
Morning
Learning Centers
Use the Yellow Activity Cards
Hello!
dbye
Afternoon
Learning Centers
Goodbye
Use the Green Activity Cards
Music & Movement
Use the Orange Activity Cards
Learning Centers for Once I Saw a Little Bird
Learning Centers are special spaces in your room
Blocks
where children can freely explore their imaginations,
test out ideas and play with friends. Equip your
centers with a set of standard materials. Then
enhance them weekly with theme-related materials.
Use your own ideas or follow the suggested
weekly set-up ideas below. Children will find new Build a House
excitement and inspiration each week. Collect cereal boxes and use them as
big blocks. Work together to build a
house where children can play inside.
Library Dramatic
Play
Letter E Roll Triangle Designs
Make a masking tape lowercase Make cardboard or fabric triangles
letter E on the floor or table. Invite (all the same size) and use the pieces
children to roll a toy egg or pompom to create hexagons or other shapes.
on it to practice recognizing and
writing the letter E.
Math & Sensory/
Manipulatives Science
Tray Play Cloud Writing
After introducing these games, leave Put shaving cream on the table and
them on trays for the entire week: invite children to write or scribble with
• Feather Dough Fun their fingers in the soft white texture.
• Spoonful of O
• Counting EggsSticky Note Bird Story Book: Once I Saw a Little Bird Sticky notes
Foam hexagons: blue, white;
Colors in Carton Egg carton; Pompoms: blue, white
Tweezers; Bowl
Paper: blue, white;
Hold Up Blue Song: White Egg, Blue Bird
Scissors; CD player
Stickers: Once I Saw A Little Bird;
Little Bird & Me Poem Sticker Scene
Crayons; Tape
Cut & Play Story Pieces: Once I
Window Story Saw a Little Bird
Photos of your children; Scissors
Pompoms: white, blue; Ribbons:
Chase the Chick white, blue
Masking tape
Five Little Birds Song: Five Little Birds CD player
Paint with a Worm Paper; Toy worm Paint; Bowl or plate
Signing Cards: hungry, eat;
Hungry Signs Cut & Play Story Piece: bird
Stuffed animals; Spoons
Feather Dough Fun Feathers Playdough; Tray
Song: White Egg, Blue Bird;
White Walk Ribbons: blue, white; Toy eggs
CD player
Tail Feathers Tail feather strips; Yarn Tape; Glue; Scissors (optional)
Cube Cards and Cut & Play Story
Story Stack Pieces: Once I Saw a Little Bird
Blocks; Scissors; Pocket Cube or box
Scissors; Tape; Spoon;
Spoonful of O Bird & Window; Paper bag
Dry cereal; Tray
Give-a-Ball Song: Do Generosity Ball; CD player
F Is for Feather Paper F; Feathers Glue or glue stick; Marker
Song and Cut & Play Story Pieces:
Feather Touch & Tell Once I Saw a Little Bird; Feathers
Tray; CD player
Toy eggs; Egg carton;
Counting Eggs Pompoms: white, blue
Song: If You’re Hungry And You
Hungry Dance Know It; Signing Cards: hungry, eat
CD player
Counting Birds Counting Birds Crayons; Tape
Not all items displayed on activity cards are included. Supplies may vary.1
Book Discovery
Sti cky N ote
B ird Story
1
Sorting & Shapes
Colors in
Carton1 Sticky Note Bird Story
Put sticky notes over a picture or word on SUPPLIES
Set Up each page. Book: Once I Saw a Little Bird
Sticky notes
Play Young Toddler Older Toddler
Turn pages and encourage children to lift a As you turn the pages, invite children to lift
sticky note and point at the picture under it. the flaps. Ask if a word or picture is revealed.
Help them name the animal or character. Add sticky notes to other books and leave
them out for children to explore on their own.
LLD 8 CONCEPTS OF PRINT
2 3
As s e s s Does the child recognize if pictures are right-side up?
Does she turn the pages from front to back of book?
Does the child identify the front/back and top/bottom
of a book? Does she indicate where to start reading on
each page?
LLD 6 LETTER, WORD, SYMBOL RECOGNITION
2 3
Does the child identify the character or object when Does the child recognize the difference between
shown the book’s pictures? pictures, letters and numbers in print?
1 Colors in Carton
Place one foam hexagon in each section of SUPPLIES
Set Up the egg carton. Put the pompoms in a bowl Foam hexagons:
blue, white
Tweezers
next to the carton. Bowl
Egg carton
Pompoms: blue, white
Play Young Toddler Older Toddler
Invite children to take one pompom and put Invite children to use tweezers, pick up
it in an egg carton section with the matching a pompom and drop it in an egg carton
color hexagon. section with the matching hexagon color.
MR 5 PATTERNING
As s e s s 2 3
Does the child try to match the pompom color to the Does the child match the colors on his own?
foam hexagon color?
PD 3 FINE MOTOR MANIPULATION
2 3
Does the child use a pincer grasp to move the pompoms? Does the child use tweezers to move the pompoms?1 Hold Up Blue
Cut up pieces of blue paper. Play the song. SUPPLIES
Set Up Song: White Egg,
Blue Bird
Paper: blue, white
Scissors
CD player
Young Toddler Older Toddler
Play Give each child a small piece of blue paper. Give each child one small piece each of blue
Listen for the word “blue” in the song and and white papers. Listen for the word “white”
encourage them to hold up their blue papers in the song and encourage them to hold up
each time they hear the word. their white papers when they hear the word.
Invite them to stomp on the blue paper when
they hear the word “blue.”
LLD 5 PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
As s e s s
2 3
Does the child repeat the word “blue” while listening to Does the child anticipate the words “white” and
the song? “blue” and begin raising the papers even before
they are sung?
SED 6 SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
2 3
Does the child observe how others are raising their Does the child participate in an activity and raise the
papers and mimic the action? same colored paper when prompted?
1
Little Bird
and Me
Name
Little Bird & Me Once I saw
will you stop
I was goin
a little bird.
Go hop, hop,
So I said, hop.
“Little bird,
, stop, stop
g to ?”
to say, “How the window
But he shoo do you do?”
k his little
and away tail,
he flew.
Tape the Sticker Scene to the wall low SUPPLIES
Set Up
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Co.
enough for children to reach them. Stickers: Once I Saw A Little Bird
Poem Sticker Scene
Crayons
Tape
Play Young Toddler Older Toddler
Encourage children to hold the sticker sheet Encourage children to stand, hold the sheet
and decorate the Sticker Scene. Write the and peel off stickers to decorate the Sticker
child’s name on the paper and tape a photo Scene. Leave out a basket of crayons for
of the child to the scene with the stickers. children to draw a self-portrait next to a bird
in the window. Help them write their names
on the line in the title.
PD 3 FINE MOTOR MANIPULATION
As s e s s 2 3
With help, does the child use two fingers to grasp the Does the child peel off a sticker by himself and put it on
sticker? Does he transfer the sticker from hand to paper another paper?
or to another hand?
SED 3 ATTENTION & PERSISTENCE
2 3
Does the child stay focused on placing stickers on the art? Does the child stay focused on adding stickers then
drawing a self-portrait on the page?1
Music Game
Hold Up Blue
1
Sticker Art
Little Bird & Me2
Story Play
Window Story
2
Measure with Me
Chase the Chick2 Window Story
Cut out a small full-body photo of each SUPPLIES
Set Up child and add these photos to the other Cut & Play Story Pieces:
Once I Saw a Little Bird
Story Pieces. Cut a window from a box
Photos of your children
or piece of cardboard.
Scissors Cut & Play Story
Pieces © 2020 Experience
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Play Young Toddler Older Toddler
Use the Story Pieces and photos like puppets From behind the window, act out the story
to peek from behind the window. with the Story Pieces and photos. Use the
photos of the children like puppets to say
hello to the bird puppet.
LLD 3 COMMUNICATION & LANGUAGE USE
2 3
As s e s s Does the child say one or two words to describe her play? Does the child use short phrases to explain what the
Story Pieces are doing in the window?
LLD 5 PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
2 3
Does the child repeat the last word in familiar rhymes Does the child suggest a missing rhyming word
when prompted? within a poem?
2 Chase the Chick
Tie the white ribbon around a white pompom SUPPLIES
Set Up and the blue ribbon around a blue pompom. Pompoms: white, blue
Ribbons: white, blue
Masking tape
Young Toddler Older Toddler
Play Invite children to crawl after a pompom tied Invite children to sit on a masking tape line.
to the ribbon. Pull the ribbon and make the Slowly pull the pompom chick in front of
pompom go slowly and then quickly. Talk each seated child. Encourage them to bend
about how the chick is going farther and forward and try to touch the chick. Pull it
farther away. Say, “Let’s catch the chick!” farther and farther away until children can no
longer reach it. Talk about “near” and “far.”
MR 4 MEASUREMENT
As s e s s 2 3
Does the child explore distance by chasing after As you move the pompom, does the child identify when
the pompoms? it is closer or farther away?2 Five Little Birds
Arrange chairs in a circle and invite children SUPPLIES
Set Up to be seated. Play the song. Song: Five Little Birds
CD player
Play Young Toddler Older Toddler
Clap for each syllable of “little” Afterward try Clap for each syllable of “little.” Afterward
clapping the names of each child and have clap the syllables of names of each child and
them mimic or repeat the clapping. invite them to repeat the clapping. Play the
song again and clap along with the tempo of
the song.
MR 5 PATTERNING
As s e s s 2
Does the child try to mimic the clapping pattern?
3
Does the child mimic the clapping pattern?
CA 1 MUSIC
2 3
Does the child respond to changes in sound, rhythm, Does the child clap to beat (not always consistently)?
volume or melody?
2 Paint with a Worm
Set out a bowl or plate of paint and a piece SUPPLIES
Set Up of paper for each child. Paper
Toy worm
Paint
Bowl or plate
Play Young Toddler Older Toddler
Give each child a toy worm and invite them Give each child a toy worm and invite them
to explore it. Demonstrate how to dip it in to explore it in different ways: stretch, roll,
paint then make worm trails on the paper. drop, pick it up. Demonstrate how to dip it
Enjoy painting and playing with the worms. in paint then make worm trails on the paper.
Enjoy painting and playing with the worms.
SCI 2 NATURAL & EARTH SCIENCES
As s e s s 2 3
Does the child explore the wet paint with her fingers? Does the child explore the wet paint and what happens
How does she respond to the feel of the worm? when the worm is in the paint?
PD 3 FINE MOTOR MANIPULATION
2 3
Does the child hold the worm with his fingers? Does the child use his pointer finger and thumb to pick
up the worm and move it in different ways?2
s
Movement Pattern
Five Little Birds
2
Painting
Paint with
a Worm3
igns
Communication S
Hungry Signs
3
Dough Play
Feather
Dough Fu n3 Hungry Signs
Place the Story Piece near a few stuffed SUPPLIES
1
hungry 2
1
eat
2
Set Up animals. Display the Signing Cards. Signing Cards: hungry, eat
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Cut & Play Story Piece: bird
Stuffed animals
Play Young Toddler Older Toddler
Take turns pretending to feed the bird and Show the bird Story Piece and pretend it is
stuffed animals. Give each child a spoon to hungry. Give each child a spoon and ask,
pretend feed the animals. Use the sign “eat” “Who is hungry?” Observe how the child
while playing. reacts. Use the signs “hungry” and “eat”
while playing.
LLD 1 LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION (RECEPTIVE)
As s e s s 2
When prompted, does the child mimic the sign when he
3
Does the child hear the words “eat” and “hungry”
hears the word? and make the signs? Does he understand we can
communicate with our hands, facial expressions
and words?
3 Feather Dough Fun
Set out the playdough on a tray with feathers. SUPPLIES
Set Up Feathers
Playdough
Tray
Young Toddler Older Toddler
Play
Roll the playdough into balls and invite Roll the playdough into balls and invite
children to push feathers into the dough. children to make birds. Talk about how many
Narrate the children’s actions: “I see you feathers their birds have. Count out four
push feathers into the dough. I see you feathers and encourage children to count
made a bird with two feathers.” and press the feathers into their dough.
PD 3 FINE MOTOR MANIPULATION
As s e s s 2 3
Does the child squeeze and explore the dough? Does Does the child push in and pull out feathers in the dough?
she push the feathers into the dough?
SCI 1 INQUIRY & INVESTIGATION
2 3
Does the child use her senses to explore the dough? Does the child experiment with different ways to
decorate the dough?3 White Walk
Place the ribbons on the floor to make one SUPPLIES
Set Up long path. Put toy eggs along the path. Song: White Egg, Blue Bird
Ribbons: blue, white
Toy eggs
CD player
Play Young Toddler Older Toddler
Encourage children to take turns walking Invite children to take turns walking forward
heel-to-toe along the ribbon path, stepping on the ribbon like a balance beam. Add
over each egg. Then have them hold an egg eggs on the line as obstacles. Increase the
and repeat. challenge by encouraging them to walk
backward while stepping over the eggs.
PD 1 GROSS LOCOMOTOR MOVEMENT
As s e s s 2
Does the child walk on the ribbon with one foot in front
3
Does the child change direction by walking forward
of the other, heel to toe? and backward?
SS 4 GEOGRAPHY
2 3
Does the child begin to follow a path? Does the child follow a path and navigate obstacles
with ease?
3 Tail Feathers
Pull apart the tail feather strips from the SUPPLIES
Set Up sheet. Tie yarn on both ends of one strip Tail feather strips
Yarn
Tape
for each child. Glue
Scissors (optional)
Young Toddler Older Toddler
Play Give each child a tail feather strip with Give each child a tail feather strip with yarn
yarn on the ends. Give them another strip on the ends. Encourage them to fringe-cut
of paper to tear freely along the edge to or tear along the edges of the strips to
make fringe as desired. Write their names make long tail feathers. Write their names
on the props, tie them around their waists on the bands, tie them around their waists
and invite them to pretend to be birds with and invite them to pretend to be birds with
beautiful tail feathers. beautiful tail feathers.
CA 4 DRAMA
As s e s s 2 3
Does the child wear the bird tail and pretend to be a bird? Does the child wear the bird tail and walk like a bird or
flap arms to pretend to fly?
PD 3 FINE MOTOR MANIPULATION
2 3
Does the child use fingers to explore the paper strips Does the child use fingers to tear the paper and begin
and to tear them? to investigate scissors?3
Coordination
White Walk
3
p
Dramatic Play Pro
Tail Feathers4
Story Cube
Story Stack
4
Life Skills
Spoonful of O4 Story Stack
Insert the cards into the Pocket Cube or tape SUPPLIES
Set Up onto sides of a box. Cube Cards and Cut & Play
Story Pieces: Once I Saw a Little Bird
Blocks
Scissors
Pocket Cube or box
Play Young Toddler Older Toddler
Encourage children to explore stacking Lay out the Story Pieces on the floor. Invite a
blocks with you. While children play with the child to roll the cube, name the picture rolled
blocks, roll the cube and ask if the picture is and look for the matching Story Piece. Stack
a bird. Help them answer yes or no. a block near that Story Piece. Continue to
roll and stack.
LLD 6 LETTERS, WORD, SYMBOL RECOGNITION
As s e s s 2
Does the child answer yes or no when asked if the
3
Does the child identify the picture rolled? What other
picture is a bird? vocabulary does he use to describe the picture rolled?
SED 6 SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
2 3
Does the child mimic the actions of others and play with Does the child participate in the activity and wait his
the blocks ? turn to roll the cube?
4 Spoonful of O
Give each child a paper bag and window. SUPPLIES
Spoonful of O
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Set Up Put a bowl of dry cereal, a spoon and the Bird & Window
Paper bag
Spoon
decorated bag on a tray. Bowl of dry cereal
Scissors Tray
Tape
Play Young Toddler Older Toddler
Invite children to decorate their bags to Invite children to decorate their paper bags
look like birdhouses then help you scoop to look like birdhouses then help you scoop
cereal from the bowl into the bags. Set the cereal from the bowl into the bags. Set
out multiple spoons with or without slots out only one spoon and encourage the
and encourage them to make room for children to take turns and share the spoon.
everyone and work together. Help them practice “please” and “thank you.”
PD 6 NUTRITION
As s e s s 2 3
Does the child hold the spoon and transfer the cereal Does the child control the spoon as he scoops the
from the bowl to the bag? cereal and puts it into the bag? Does he feed himself
during meal times?
MR 4 MEASUREMENT
2 3
Does the child respond as you ask him to scoop more? Does the child talk about “more” while scooping
more cereal?4 Give-a-Ball
Arrange chairs in a circle and invite children SUPPLIES
Set Up to be seated. Play the song. Song: Do Generosity
Ball
CD player
Play Young Toddler Older Toddler
Give one child the ball to carry around the Give one child the ball to carry around the
circle then back to his seat. (Model with him, circle then back to his seat. Observe as the
if necessary.) Invite him to give the ball to child walks by himself. Encourage him to give
another child and repeat. the ball to another child and repeat.
CA 1 MUSIC
As s e s s 2
Does the child respond to the music by walking around
3
Does the child explore the music by walking and
the chairs? carrying the ball on his own?
SED 6 SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
2 3
Does the child carry the ball? Does the child wait patiently for his turn to carry the ball?
4
Set Up
Play
F Is for Feather
Set out the paper Fs and feathers on the table.
Young Toddler
Invite children to make the /f/ sound while
playing with feathers. Explore blowing
SUPPLIES
Paper F
Feathers
Glue or
glue stick
Marker
Older Toddler
F
Show children the letter F and encourage
them to say “F-f-f-feather”! Each time they say
them off the table. Pick them up and glue it, give them another feather to hold. After
onto the letter F. each child has 2-3 feathers, invite them to
glue their feathers onto the letter F. Write
their names on the paper.
PD 3 FINE MOTOR MANIPULATION
As s e s s 2 3
Does the child use fingers to play with the feathers? Does the child use fingers to play with the feathers then
glue it onto the paper F?
LLD 7 PHONICS
2 3
Does the child mimic the /f/ sound? Does the child point at the paper F and make the
/f/ sound?4
Rhythm Game
Give-a-Ball
4
Collaging
F Is for Feather5
Active Listening
Feather
Touch & Tell
5
Number Play
Counting Eggs5 Feather Touch & Tell
Set out a tray of feathers for children to touch. SUPPLIES
Set Up Play the read-aloud story. Song and Cut & Play
Story
Feathers
Tray
Pieces: Once I Saw a
Little Bird CD player
Young Toddler Older Toddler
Play
Invite children to touch and explore the Invite children to touch and play with feathers
feathers as they listen to the story. Repeat while listening to the story. Use the Story
words heard in the rhyme. Pieces to retell and act out the story after
listening to it. Observe how the children talk
about the feathers and Story Pieces together.
SED 3 ATTENTION & PERSISTENCE
2 3
As s e s s Does the child stay near and listen to most of the story
while touching the mushrooms?
Does the child focus on the mushrooms quietly during
the length of the story read-aloud?
SCI 3 PHYSICAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2 3
Does the child use his senses to explore the feathers Does the child investigate what happens as he explores
and react to how they feel, break apart or look when the feathers in a variety of ways, e.g., touch, squeeze
playing with them? and break apart? What words does he use to explain
his discoveries?
5 Counting Eggs
Insert one pompom into each egg. Hide them SUPPLIES
Set Up around the room. Toy eggs
Egg carton
Pompoms: white, blue
Play Young Toddler Older Toddler
Invite children to hunt around the room for Invite children to hunt around the room for
eggs. Encourage them to bring them back eggs. Encourage them to bring them back,
and put them in the carton. open and see what color the pompom inside
is. Count the eggs aloud then count the
pompoms. Put the eggs in the carton.
MR 1 NUMBER SENSE
As s e s s 2 3
Does the child explore one-to-one correspondence by Does the child recognize the difference between one,
putting one egg in each section of the egg carton? two and three?5 Hungry Dance
Display the Signing Cards low on the SUPPLIES
1
1
1
2
Set Up Song: If You’re Hungry
hungry eat
1
wall so the children can easily see them.
2
And You Know It
Play the song. © 2020 Experience
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Signing Cards: hungry, eat
hungry
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CD player
eat
2
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Play
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Young Toddler Older Toddler
Listen for the word “hungry.” Sign that word Listen for the words “hungry” and “eat.” Sign
throughout the song. the words and invite children to mimic you.
CA 2 DANCE
As s e s s
2 3
Does the child mimic the sign when you model it during Does the child hear the words and demonstrate the sign
the song? language to communicate them?
LLD 1 LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION (RECEPTIVE)
2 3
Does the child connect the spoken word to the sign? Does the child understand that a gesture can represent
a word?
5
Counting Birds
Counting Birds 1 2 3
Tape the page under a chair or low table. SUPPLIES © 2020 Experience Early Learning
Set Up
Co.
Children will color upside-down. Counting Birds
Crayons
Tape
Young Toddler Older Toddler
Play Invite children to explore coloring while Invite children to color upside-down. Hold the
lying on their backs. If a child is hesitant, box of crayons so they have one crayon at
demonstrate how you do it. When done a time and must crawl out to ask for another.
coloring, look at the pictures together and When they are done, remove the coloring
encourage children to touch each bird as you sheets and talk about the numbers on the
count aloud 1-2-3. page. Encourage children to count the birds
aloud together.
PD 3 FINE MOTOR MANIPULATION
As s e s s 2 3
Does the child purposefully grasp the crayon and make Does the child hold the crayon with his whole hand and
a mark on the paper? move it purposefully on the paper?
MR 1 NUMBER SENSE
2 3
Does the child touch each bird as you count aloud? Does the child count the birds aloud (not always in
order)? How high does the child count on his own?5
Sign-Along
Hungry Dance
5
Coloring
Counting Birds© 2020 Experience Early Learning Co. www.ExperienceEarlyLearning.com
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