Here's a sticky to share what you do to teach your toddler, maybe others will like the way you do it and try it themselves!

Brill Kids Little Reader & Little Math http://www.brillkids.com/

Mario and I bought this software together.
I think its fantastic, although I haven't been doing it very often with Izzy til now as her concentration span hasn't been up to much!

Recently though she has been more attentive and picking up words better, so this week I am going to try a bit more with her!

LisaG has some picture cards waiting for me to collect - I saw the ones she had for Amelia from ELC and they looked really good!

She has lots of picture books, one huge one with every possible animal in, divided into categories like birds etc, but also where things are found like in the sea, in the river etc.
The disney first 1000 words is excellent too as its really bright and colourful, for later it has little activities to do on the pages.

I've found that Libby's building blocks taught her loads of new words and she knows all of them now.

Another thing - strangely - was a toys r us brochure, it had loads of those plastic animals and she learnt so many new ones from there, like meerkat, hippo, rhino etc.

She does have some flash cards and they helped too. x

We have flash cards too, The amazing baby ones, but a bit poo imo

Oliver hasn't got a vast attention span so we just use things around us and tell him what they are, what they do and what they are for and he's picked it up a treat and now when he see's pic's of things he relates them to others.

He was never one for making animal noises and me and OH are rubbish at animal noises but OH's got this app on his phone with real pic's of animals and the sound they make and now word of a lie, he's picked them all up and a week

Just to add too - songs. Oliver loves songs and music, so anything musical that teaches too is a bonus. Like head shoulders knees and toes..we've been doing this for months and is spot on with his body parts

evan loves music im trying to teach him body parts using head shoulder knees n toes song but so far he cant get past nose and ears! he does do the moves to imagination movers tho and knows wen they say to turn round or go down etc
ive got him loads of books for xmas gonna try teachin him things but other than that jst now im jst speaking and showing him colours but his attention span aint great yet

Like lisa i use little reader and little maths and c adores it. It took a while before she woudl concentrate on the phonics but she does now and loves the words and pictures and videos and can now name most body parts.

We also have flash cards, some are two part ones where one has a pictre say of a patterned scarf and one has the same pattern on it just in a square and she has started to match them up now. I also made her her own flash cards by laminating pictures with the words printed underneath so cat for example was actually her own cat.

Like Oliver music works well for her and we sing head and shoulders all the time and old macdonald too.

Otherwise its just through talking, ive always described everything to her even before she coudl really grasp the concept i would talk to her about trees, laves, seasons, colours allsorts etc figuring eventually she would get it. The latest one is everytime she points something out now we describe it in terms of what it is, is it big or small and colours and shes getting her red, blue and green right a lot of the time now

We use a drawing board with Aimee (the ones where you just slide the thingy across and it wipes what you have used with the magnetic pen).

She was counting 1-10 by 20 months and can recognise any number in any order if you write it down. We normally spend half an hour after bath time doing numbers and shapes on the board and she really enjoys it.

Its simple, but it really works. x

Laura - thats a good idea about the board thing and teaching numbers. Oliver can count to 20 now but he's not so clued up on recognising the actual number, so i'm going to try that one

Also..has anyone got any tips on teaching colour? I feel he's a bit behind with colours and doesn't seem to pick it up as easy as he has with other things.
When I point things out, I say what colour it is..ie, oliver is wearing a green jumper - green like a tree etc. Also, tried with his cars and we try teaching colour with all his different cars.
I've also tried teaching one individual colour at a time and just pointing eg - yellow things out, but when we move onto a different colour, say after a week or so..everything is still yellow

Anyone got any tips?

Wil refuses to name colours when asked 'what colour is xxx?' but he will happily tell me to bring his 'blue slippers' or 'yellow book' or that the 'big, white lorry is coming'

I have given up overtly teaching him stuff because he seems to pick it up much quicker if we just go about our normal lives and he learns as he goes.