Once a teacher, always a teacher

As many of you know I am a nanny to a wonderful and very smart 2 year old boy. (Who is now potty-trained...yeah!!) I love my job and am so thankful to be a nanny! It is definitely where I am suppose to be. But I am a teacher so my sweet booger bear gets the full treatment of lessons, letters, and learning! I thought I would share our weekly activities for any moms out there who need some activities and to help me get my creative juices flowing.
This week of activities came from my Mom (thanks Mom!)
We are working on colors. We have already done a poem and activity for each color, along with color bottles which were a hit. This week we are working on the color word. You type the color word twice, putting each letter in a box. Then the child colors and cuts the letters apart of one copy of the color word. As a game, the child has to glue the color word back together using the uncut color word as a guide. It has worked out great! I plan to put all the words on a ring so he can easily look at all the colors.
We are also working on 5 senses. Mom gave me a poem and book. You can easily google a poem and the book is easy. Each page is about one of the five senses. For example, "My eyes see _______." "My ears hear _______." I write what he says and then he draws a picture. He has really enjoyed this, especially learning about his ears because he can make lots of noise.
Also (thanks to Mom's idea, don't we all love our mothers?) we go outside and each day he gets to pick something up from outside and put it in a zip lock baggie. I write the amount of things we picked up and a sentence. We started out with him getting to pick up 1 thing, today we did 2 things, tomorrow 3 things and so on.
For the alphabet, we have started to play this game. The child gets to pick out 8 rocks from outside and then paint them. The child then draws letters out of a bag and if they identify the letters/sound correctly then get to put a rock on the game board. There are only 8 spots on the board which is about the perfect amount for young children's attention span. Here is the website I got it from and it has a template for the game board:
http://madebyjoel.com/2010/05/modern-alphabet-game.html
My mother-in-law found this website and it has some really neat craft ideas!
Those are the activities for this week!
May the learning begin...