The other day, I came back from an errand to find my toddler son outside with his babysitter. His clothes were soaked, and he wore the hugest grin on his sweet face. He was squealing with laugher. What had made him so happy? His red car, a watering can, and a bucket. You see, I'm a big fan of modeling language through play. We've played with these exact same toys before. I've pushed him in his car multiple times. I've modeled words like "go", "stop", and "turn". We've gotten out Daddy's large blue bucket, and bounced his ball inside, while I modeled sentences such as, "Ball in. We bounced the round ball in the bucket." We've pretended to water the flowers (okay, the grass- I'm not much of a gardener) and talked about it as we did it. My son's creative babysitter, however, tho...
Comments
Post a Comment