Week One: Tot School

Letter of the Week: Aa

Shape of the Week: Oval

Color of the Week: Purple

Number of the Week: 1 

 Work Baskets for Week One: 

#1: Some Aa prewriting with dry erase markers. 

They love writing with these markers!

Marin is very proud of her work!

Hollis has to do it too! She LOVES markers!

 #2: Letter Aa I Spy Game 

I gathered a few items that begin with the letter Aa and photographed them. Marin first had to find all the letters in the picture. Then we sounded out each of the pictures saying the "a" sound with each one. Then she dumped out the objects and matched them up like a puzzle. 

She loved this one. Did it every single day. 

Hollis liked dumping everything out of the container :o). But she did also like pointing to the pictures I named. Good vocabulary for her! 

#3: Ten Apples Up on Top LEGOS! 

Big hit! I taped some small apples on their legos and they added them to their lego man's head. 

They both loved this one. Great counting practice and fine motor skills. 

 Showing off her ten apples!

 One afternoon I walked into the playroom and found Hollis sitting up at the table with her little lego work basket. So sweet. She really liked this basket!

#4: Animal puzzles/Animal lacing cards

 This basket was the least favorite of both girls. The lacing cards were just a little too hard for her. I may try letting her use pipe cleaners the next time. Hollis liked her puzzle but she wanted to do the other work baskets instead. But she would get real proud of herself for saying the animals or finding the animals. 

Activities for Week One:

They drew the shape and color of the week in their "handy dandy" notebook. Marin loves Blue's Clues so it was fun for her to have her own notebook. 

We painted apple prints on our Aa. 

 Marin did the capital A and Hollis did the lowercase a.

 Foam letter sort: A little water and these Dollar Tree foam letters stick. Marin loved it. Again, she is proud of her work. 

 And of course, Hollis had to have a turn. 

 Class clown. 

We read Ten Apples Up on Top. Marin loves apples so she thought it was pretty fun to count the apples. Her attention span for longer stories is...uh...not so great. But she did love this one. 

 Then the cut and glued apples on top of their heads! 

Marin loved cutting and I need to be sure and do this with her more often. 

 

And last we made an Easy Reader Animal Book. 

 Hard working student....