Encouraging a toddler to sit for circle time

[Inspired by Reggio]

.... I don't have a ritual type of circletime where we always do the same things in the same order such as calendar, weather, alphabet song, story,.... I just sit with my bin (plastic dishpan) of things to do and we pick things out and do them. If they seem into singing I pull more song things out, etc.

This is me as well ~ although I always start with a This morning the banjo was playing on the radio song and end it the same good~bye song but the middle is child directed ~ each child gets to choose to bring things out of my basket either finger puppets, books, file folder activities and so forth ... I do not do the calendar and weather and so forth at 'circle' because we discuss things like this when planning the morning with them cause it is more practical hands on observations ~ lets look outside can we go to a park today if so what do we need to be safe as well as when we menu plan for the next week I can teach the days of the week and so forth.