It would be an understatement to say my 2 yr old likes trains. This is why he loves this book so much. It was created over a long period of time as he shows interest in letters, numbers, then words, then emotions and then telling time, etc. I love that it grows along with my son♥
The worksheets are not fancy. They were created with paper and marker, then put into plastic sheet protectors, and my son uses them over and over again with dry-erase markers.
Matching the name of the engine to its number.
The trains' names are written on the left; their numbers on the right.
Talking about emotions: circling the correct written word for the facial expression. At 2 yrs old, D figures out which word based on the beginning letter and knowing its sound.
Circling "Happy"
Here, D said, "Thomas is cross." He wasn't sure which word to circle. I assisted on this one, "Another word for cross is?" He said mad, and then we talked together about what mad started with by sounding out the first letter and finishing the word (Mmmmad). He got it:)
He loves pushing trains through tunnels, so to play off that, I made a wide track and a narrow track leading to tunnels. "Can you help the train chuff down the narrow track?" "Now can you help him go down the wide track?"
We work on left and right all day long, putting on shoes, squirting with bath squirters in the tub (squirting your right arm, now your left arm. Let's do your right hand, etc.) We work on left and right whenever we go up and down stairs, when we put on jammies, clothes, coats, and everywhere in between.
D tells me which direction to turn in the car now LOL.
Count the wheels and match to the number in the middle.
He's getting really good at drawing facial expressions.
He wasn't too sure how Thomas was feeling here LOL.
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Matching the names of the trains (color coded).
This is as much as he wanted to do for this one. However, the reason I created this one is because D is always asking me what the names are on the bottoms of his trains.
Coal cars are on the right, match the number on the left to the amount of coal in each car.
Letter recognition.
D asks me all.day.long. what time it is. Now that he knows his numbers, it's time he starts learning.
I write the (digital) time and the long hand to the 12, he draws the short hand.
Here are some more games we've made, and some additional activities to show you where we started ...
Avery simple game I created to help learn numbers:
A DIY very simple matching game for train lovers:
How chuffing down tracks got my son to write:
Ticket punch number learning:
More ticket punch for over 2 yrs old:
Learning is fun!
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