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The Senses
- Fascinating farm theme.
- Large, familiar and brightly faced farm animals inviting the toddler to look at them over and over.
- Animals appear on the wheel encouraging her to gaze at them there as well.
- Animals on the farm panel light up when the corresponding button on the wheel is pressed.
- When a tune is played the light moves from one animal to another encouraging the toddler to follow with her eyes, stimulating sight.
- The farm panel also makes animal sounds and plays a popular happy tune, encouraging development of hearing.
- Different materials (the wheel is made of bumpy plastic and cloth) and push buttons encouraging the toddler to feel and press, developing the sense of touch.
- The toddler holds the wheel with one hand and presses buttons with the other for developing motor control.
- She also improves hand-eye coordination when she imitates driving actions and holds the wheel with both hands while turning it left and right.
- The Wonder Wheel develops cognition when the toddler learns to connect her actions (pressing the picture on the wheel) to the reaction (sounds and tunes). Gradually she learns to expect the reaction she will receive so she presses a series of buttons in order to get a series of sounds.
- The Wonder Wheel also contributes to the development of imagination by encouraging her to imitate her parents driving the car by turning the wheel, as she “driving” as well.
- The Wonder Wheel contributes to the development of language by familiarizing the toddler with farm animals and the sounds they make.
- The Wonder Wheel stimulates and develops the senses (sight, hearing and touch) with brightly colored images and flashing lights (sight); popular tunes and animal and other sounds (hearing).
- The various textures including bumpy plastic, cloth and push buttons for developing the sense of touch.
- The Wonder Wheel develops the toddler’s fine motor skills when she presses the various animals on the wheel with one finger.
- Cognition, in the form of cause & effect, is developed when she learns about the connection between pressing the buttons on the wheel (cause) and the amusing reaction -- noise, animal sounds, tunes and flashing lights that result on the farm panel (effect).
- The Wonder Wheel also helps develop imagination by encouraging imitation -- when you are driving, so is she.
- The Wonder Wheel contributes to the development of speech as the toddler gets to know the names of the various animals and the sounds that they make.
- Help your baby get to know the names of the animals on the farm panel and wheel and to say them.
- Help your baby get to know the sounds that these animals make: the cow goes ‘moo-moo’ … the sheep goes ‘bah bah’.
- Ask your toddler what sounds the animals make: ‘What does the cow say?” , ‘What does the hen say?’
- Ask your toddler to press a certain button.
- Sing the words of “Old McDonald had a farm” while listening to the tune, in order to emphasize the names of the animals in the song.
