Tot School

Hunter is 30 months old.

Letter V Activities:

We always start the week with a letter paper- this printable is from 1+1+1=1.

Hunter decorated a letter V to make our letter project.

V is for volcano.

Shapes:

The shape we concentrated on this week was the triangle.  I put painter’s tape onto a piece of paper and had Hunter paint all around the paper.

Then I peeled the tape off and we were left with this triangle.

Hunter practiced his shapes with this shape printable  from 1+1+1=1.  I put it on a cookie sheet, then asked him to find a shape, and he found the shape and put a magnetic pom pom on the shape I asked for.

Sensory:

Hunter played with Mickey and Minnie in this bin of pom poms.

Manipulatives:

Hunter and Hailey used our unifix cubes to build all sorts of things- but mostly swords to fight each other.

We used the magnetic pom poms again to practice numbers.

Other:

We are working on a super fun unit all about caterpillars and butterflies.  Hailey has read a different book each day during science.

For one craft we made these cute caterpillars- pom poms glued onto clothespins, then we added googly eyes.

The next day we put our caterpillars into toilet paper tubes and wrapped yarn around them to represent a chrysalis.

Then we colored coffee filters with washable markers and sprayed them with water.  When the colors run together it looks so pretty- we used these to turn our caterpillars into butterflies.

Hailey and Hunter made life cycle plates about the butterflies.  Hunter loves it when he gets to do whatever Hailey is doing!

Here is Hunter’s finished life cycle plate- eggs to larva (caterpillar) to pupa (chrysalis) to adult (butterfly).

We also made some butterfly sun catchers.

Here is Hunter’s finished butterfly.

We sang a song about a caterpillar turning into a butterfly.  Hailey and Hunter loved the song and the hand motions to go with it.  Here are the words that we sang:

I saw a caterpillar
climbing up a tree.
He wiggled and he wiggled,
he wiggled right at me.
I put him in a box,
“Stay right there,” I said.
But, when I opened up the box
a butterfly instead.
I couldn’t do it,
even if I tried.
Only God in heaven
could make a butterfly.

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Tot School

Hunter is 29 months.

I can’t believe we are almost done with the alphabet!  We will be going through the alphabet again in the fall when we start preschool… well that is the plan at least.  We will see how it goes with a newborn in the house 🙂

Letter U activities:

(Printables for the letter U are from 1+1+1=1 and Confessions of a Homeschooler.)

Hunter used water colors to paint his letter U paper.

 Hunter loves these pages- he is getting better about stamping the marker in the circles.

 He really enjoyed stamping it hard enough to make the ink splatter (and smear all over his arms).

 U is for Umbrella

Shapes:

Our shape this week was the square.

Hunter put square pieces of tissue paper onto a square piece of contact paper, that we made into a sun catcher.

Hunter had some square crackers for a snack.

Sensory:

Hunter played with these foam insect creatures in his sensory bin.

Another day I put these rocks meant for a fish tank in his sensory bin.  He was playing with them so nicely that I left the room for a minute to put a load of laundry in the dryer.  Soon, I heard Hailey yelling.  When I came back to see what was going on, Hunter was pouring these little rocks down the back of her shirt.

Other:

When we came home from Disney World I decided it was time to get down to the potty training business.  So, Hunter put on some underwear and did an excited dance around the living room to celebrate.  He did really well and only had a couple of accidents.  For the most part he went on the toilet and even told me once when he had to go.  He was so excited!  The next morning when he woke up he said, “Today I want to wear my Minnie and Mickey diapers.”  And he has not wanted anything to do with the underwear again.

We have been having fun learning all about worms and at the end of our worm unit, we made dirt pudding with worms (chocolate pudding, crushed Oreos and gummy worms).  Hunter loved it!

We learned how important worms are to the earth, so when we finished observing our worms, we let them go in our garden.

Hailey helping Hunter practice his shapes during calendar time.

Hunter loves books!!  I love how he goes and finds a book and lays down to read it!

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Tot School

Hunter is 29 months old.

We were back to our regular Tot School activities this week and had a good week.

Letter T activities:

(Printables for the letter T are from 1+1+1=1.)

Hunter started the week out by coloring his letter T paper. I’ve noticed lately that he actually colors the objects on the paper, rather than just coloring all over the page.

Hunter loves using the do-a-dot markers.  He used them to stamp the letter Ts on the train.

T is for Train

Shapes:

Our shape this week is the square.

Hunted used blocks to stamp squares onto his paper.  He really enjoyed this and asked to do it again later in the day.

Hunter glued squares onto a square to make a face.

We did some puzzles to practice shapes.

Sensory:

I put grass seed into Hunter’s sensory bin this week.  He really enjoyed this and played with it for a long time!

I put soapy water into the water table and Hailey and Hunter played in it and used sponges to scrub it clean.

Other:

Hunter used his rainbow pegs to make a vacuum- he pretended to vacuum the floor with this.

I love finding Hunter taking books off the shelf to read.

Hailey read Hunter his Highlights magazine.

Hailey studied worms for science, and of course Hunter wanted to join in the fun.

Hunter and Hailey created little worm habitats so that we could observe our worms.  I was surprised that Hunter actually picked the worms up to put them in his jar because he is not usually a fan of things like that.

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Tot School

Hunter is 28 months old.

It was another fun filled, busy week at Tot School.

Letter S activities:

(Printables for the letter S are from 1+1+1=1 and Confessions of a Homeschooler.)

We always start out our week with Hunter coloring a paper for his letter of the week.  He has even started asking to do this.

He loves doing the do-a-dot printables for the letter too.  He is getting much better at dotting the letter rather than just putting random dots all over the paper.

We lined up some pom-poms on the letter S.  Hunter didn’t want me to take anymore pictures on this day 🙂

Stamping the letters has become one of his favorite activities.  He asks to do this almost every day.

We added the letter S to our Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom tree.

Hunter painted an S and some stars.

S is for Stars.
(I mixed the glitter into the paint rather than sprinkling it on and there was no glitter mess.)

Circles:

Hailey and Hunter had fun blowing bubbles- and noticing that they are circles.

Hunter put some circle shaped paper onto a contact paper shaped circle.

I turned it into a circle sun catcher.

He glued different colored circles onto a circle.

We made a “circle man.”

Sensory:

Hunter requested eggs for his sensory bin this week.

Other:

Hunter working on a clay dish for Mother’s Day.  I helped him shape the clay into a little bowl.  Then he added beads and sequence while the clay was still wet.  Once it was dry he painted it using water colors.

Hailey and Hunter’s finished bowls.

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