Tot School

Hunter is 22 months old.

My Tot School post is a bit late this week, but sometimes life just gets in the way…  Last week we had a death in our family, someone much too young to die.  She left behind her husband and their almost 4 year old little boy.  In addition she left behind her sisters and parents, and no parent should ever have to bury a child.  So, it was a very sad and hard week for us.  Other than the posts I had already set to auto-post I didn’t do any blogging.  We would definitely appreciate your prayers.

Here are the activities we did last week:

On Columbus Day we learned about Columbus and made a map.

Hunter also made a boat for Columbus Day.  You can see my original post with our Columbus Day Activities.

Hunter’s letter of the week was C.

He made this cute Crab that I saw on Totally Tots.

Hunter also glued some cement trucks onto the letter C, using the printables from Royal Baloo.

Hunter is learning the color orange, so we used the printables from Royal Baloo to make this orange page.

We have been learning about fall and leaves, and one day Hailey and Hunter dressed all in green to show the color of chlorophyll.

We sang a fun fall song and played in some fake leaves.

We also made a cute fall tree craft, using leaves to paint.

Stop by 1+1+1=1 to see what the other tots were up to this week.

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Columbus Day Activities

We did a little one day mini unit about Columbus Day and what it is all about.  We started out by watching a video about Columbus on BrainPOP.  We also played a game and took the quiz on BrainPOP.

Then we made a mini book that I found at Royal Baloo and a couple other free printables from the Columbus Unit she created.

After we finished talking about Columbus and what he did, we made a map to show where he went, using an idea I saw at 2nd Grade Shenanigans.

I drew this (I am clearly not an artist!) on a paper bag and then Rich burned the edges for me to make it look like an old map.

Hailey and Hunter painted their maps.

Completed maps

Hailey and Hunter gluing together a boat for Columbus Day, using an idea I saw at A Cupcake for the Teacher.

Completed Columbus boats.  Hailey drew a picture of Columbus in one of the windows on her boat.

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