Tot School

Hunter is 28 months old.

Letter R Activities:

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

Hunter colored a letter R paper.

Hunter lined up all sorts of characters on this letter R printable.

He loved stamping the letter R onto this paper.  He also loved stamping the letter R onto his hand and mine :-).

Hunter had fun making this R is for Rainbow.

Circle Activities:

Hunter practicing shapes with help from Hailey.

We stamped circles using recycled containers.

Hailey wanted to make one too.

We sang a fun song about circles that I found in one of my Mailbox magazines.  It goes to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It.”
A circle is a shape that goes round.
A circle is a shape that goes round.
A circle is a shape that goes round and round and round.
A circle is a shape that goes round.

Then we sang other verses like:
[Put your hands] on the circle and go round.
[Put your hands] on the circle and go round.
[Put your hands] on the circle and go round and round and round.
[Put your hands] on the circle and go round.

We did other verses like stomp your feet, tiptoe slowly, hippity hop, etc.  We just had a lot of fun making up verses and acting silly.

We painted bubble wrap…

…then we stamped the painted bubble wrap onto paper to make circle prints.

Sensory:

Hunter enjoyed playing with beads in his sensory bin.  He always ends up spilling them and making a huge mess, so I hate getting them out- but he has so much fun.  I hid some circles in his bin that he had to find.

The Easter bunny brought playdough and Hunter has been enjoying playing with that.

Other:

I colored inside an egg carton.

Then Hunter sorted his counting bears onto the correct colors.

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Tot School

Hunter is 28 months old.

Letter Q Activities:

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

Hunter colored his Q paper.

 Hunter used colored pencils to color the quilt.

He stamped the letter Q onto the queen paper.  (He kept asking where the boy was to go with the queen.)

He filled up the letter Q with sequence.

Hunter loves using his do-a-dot markers.

We made a Q is for queen.  When he finished making the queen he asked if we could make a boy for her.

Sensory:

Hunter had a bin of buttons this week.  He spent a while looking over all over the buttons.

He also had a bin with bottle caps.

I put some shampoo in a ziploc bag and Hunter enjoyed playing with it.

Other:

Playing a matching game with a quilt.

Some shape practice.  Hunter really surprised me and wanted to do this activity several times.

ABC puzzle with some help from Hailey.

Hailey read “No, David” to Hunter.

Hunter wanted to color a picture of a boy to go with the Q for queen we made.  He thought for sure she needed to have someone.

Hunter’s Lego people did some traveling around the world.

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Tot School

Hunter is 28 months old.

We had another fun and busy week at Tot School!

Letter P activities:

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

Hunter has been spending a lot more time on his coloring lately.  He really takes his time and then tells me what he is drawing.

Hunter put together a little letter P puzzle.

He really likes doing the lacing activities.

Tracing the letter P with his finger.

Lining up counting bears on the letter P.

Hunter used his do-a-dot markers to color the letter P.

He used water colors to paint the pencil paper.

P is for Pig.

Manipulatives:

I put Velcro dots on some colorful Popsicle sticks and then we practiced making different shapes with them.

He was very proud of his tower.

Working on lining up his counting bears.

Sensory bin:

We only did one sensory bin this week and Hunter loved it!  He requested it several times.  He sat and concentrated on transferring plastic eggs from the bowl to the bin.

Other:

Shape practice

Hunter has been asking for paper to just color on a lot the last couple of weeks.  Then he sits and works very quietly on making a picture.

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Tot School

Hunter is 27 months old.

We’ve had a kind of crazy 2 weeks with the stomach bug going around our family.  It took us 2 weeks to do 1 weeks worth of activities, but we are finally all on the mend and back to normal (I hope).

Letter O Activities:

I used several printables from 1+1+1=1.  Hunter always starts out by coloring his letter of the week paper.  Some weeks he puts a few scribbles on the paper and says he is done.  Other times he spends a very long time coloring every part of the paper.

He tried his first lacing activity, and he did pretty well (with some help).

Putting together the letter O puzzle

Pointing out an O on the ostrich.

Hunter glued foam letter Os onto the ostrich.

We made an O is for Octopus.  Hunter spent a while using his do-a-dot markers to decorate the O.

The finished octopus.

After we sang the alphabet I asked Hunter to point to the letter O on his ABC board.  I expected him to (possibly) find the O flashcard.  Instead he pointed to an O on the boarder.  I was excited that he really recognized the letter O.

Manipulatives:

Hunter is just loving his blocks lately!

Working on a puzzle.

More building with the blocks.

Practicing his cutting with playdough.

Sensory bin:

The only sensory bin we did this week was with foam letters.

Other:

Painting with water colors… maybe all the other moms already know this, but I found a great way to do water colors with a toddler.  Before Hunter started painting, I took an eye dropper and dropped a few little drops of water into each color.  After a few minutes, the paint was all ready to use without Hunter having to remember to dip his brush in the water before the paint.

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