Tot School: Week 4-ish

So....we have really been enjoying the weather and parks and play dates. Tot school has unfortunately fallen behind. But this week included some reorganization and a new set up and we did get a few projects in.

Letter of the Week: Dd

Color of the Week: Orange 

Number of the Week: 4

Shape of the Week: Diamond

I've changed things up a bit.
The baskets are gone and the bins are in. I changed it because the baskets were
just too cluttered for my brain. (But apparently all the other clutter doesn't bother me too much. Argh.)
But I had one bin already and found the other one at a yard sale. So it worked it out. I put there little activities in the drawers. The magazine holders hold books we read for the week. 

This week we did a lot of pumpkin activities. The pumpkin patch close to our house has story hour and sing along times and we just kept the pumpkin theme rolling. 

 Painting our pumpkins....

Marin did a pumpkin number puzzle. 

Hollis glued pumpkins on her paper. 

For the letter Dd, they put beads on the duck. 

Marin's pumpkin sort. She did such a great job sorting her pumpkins!

 I made a little Pumpkin Unit for Teachers Pay Teachers. Here is the pumpkin/candy corn measuring activity from the packet. 

Hollis really didn't do much measuring. 

 Marin, on the other hand, got the hang of it quickly and loved lining them up and counting them. 

And in case you are curious...you can click HERE to check out the unit. 

Tot School: Week 3

So we did a LOT of traveling in September. A LOT. So week 3 lasted about three weeks and was a bit sporadic. But we did get a little done.

Week Three:

Letter : Cc

Number: 3

Shape: Circle

Color: Yellow

 Our baskets:

1. Cloud Dough Cupcakes
2. Cat and Cupcakes Game
3. Color Cube Game
4. Tangram puzzles Cat and Cow

Our Board

Doing their yellow circle in their Handy Dandy Notebooks. :o)

A cute little cupcake poem and game. We read the book, they matched the cupcakes, then fed them to the cat.
Hollis loved this one.
I would find the cat and the cupcakes all around the house. :o)

Our color cube game was a Christmas present last year. They rolled the cube and did the activity on the correct colored card. There are several cards in each color but I chose a set few to make it a little less "chaotic".
This was a Marin favorite.
You can find the game here. 

Coud dough cupcakes.
This was by far the favorite activity of both girls.
So very messy but so very fun. 

4 cups flour
1 cup vegetable oil
1 crushed up leftover red piece of sidewalk chalk

It feels like sand but can be molded any way you want. 

We read My Car and used a car to paint over the letter Cc.
Loved this one. Turned out really cute. 

This was out for a while...but they played with corn in the table. 

We made cupcakes with sprinkles. 

Then we watched our caterpillars form a chrysalis....

 And then watched our new butterflies fly around!

Setting our butterflies free.
Hollis was real into it, can't you tell?? :o) 

Tot School: Week 2

Letter of the Week: Bb

Number: 2

Shape: Triangle

Color: Brown

Book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

My mom came for a visit this week which kinda disrupted our little "school" routine. You see, Maye Maye, is one of their most favorite toys. So they played. And played, And played. 

But we did squeeze in some little activities as well....

Our baskets:

1. Stringing Beads
2. Playing alphabet Bingo
3. Letter Bb I Spy Game
4. Counting with Buttons

They LOVED the buttons and the Letter Bb game. 

But they had no interest in the beads or Bingo at all. 

She got a new backpack. Never takes it off.

 Our Board:

Our Activities:

This one was mainly for Hollis....Bb/Butterfly magnet pages.
But Marin loved them too. 

 Balloon painting on the Letter Bb. 

"I Spy With my Little Eyes" game with toilet paper roll binoculars and Bb toys. I would name an item and they had to find them.
This was another Hollis game but Marin loved the "binoculars". Hollis loved it too though.
She would say baby, bear, bus, and ball. Butterfly and block were a little tricky for her. 

 Painted wooden butterfly masks. This project took a total of 5 seconds it seemed. :o) 

A little cut and glue Butterfly Life Cycle project. 

Another cut and sort the Bb pictures...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

 We retold the story with our little sock puppet and paper plates. 

I got a cute video of Marin retelling the story. 

And then we watch our caterpillar formed their chrysalis. One caterpillar didn't make it. 

 But the other three are now safely in the butterfly net!