AGE: 18-19 months (favourite *new* media only)
Books:
- Henry & Mudge series
- Dr Putter & Tabby series-- the shorter stories
- The original Curious George stories
- Let's Read and Find Out Science books (level 1)
- A Dark Dark Tale
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
- Marsupial Sue
- Pete the Cat and his Four Groovy Buttons
- At a Construction Site
- I Drive a Garbage Truck
- Danny and the Dinosaur
- Books by Aliki (Feelings, Digging up Dinosaurs)
- Penny Dale books -- Dinosaur Dig and Dinosaur Zoom
- Pooh's Thinking Corner books from Dollarama
Video/YouTube:
- PBS Kids Pteranodon Family World Tour
- Between the Lions
- Winnie the Pooh original episodes
- Select Pink Panther cartoons on YouTube
- Anything remotely connected to garbage trucks
- This video spawned an interest in food webs:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=hecXupPpE9o&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DhecXupPpE9o
Ipad apps:
- Starfall Learn to Read (~$3-4)
Toys:
- Duplo
- Lego City garbage truck
- A bag of polished rocks
- Green Toys recycling truck and home-made recycling bins/mini garbage
- Anything that can be played with in a sandbox
- A home-made 3D city made of paper that can be designed into subdivisions
- All our old construction vehicles and tools
- A tea set and medieval castle at the museum
Audio:
- Two Little Sounds (Hap Palmer)
- A children's cello compendium (I'll dig up the title)
- Henry Mancini
- Big band swing
