Tot School

Hunter is 23 months old.

It’s hard to believe that November is almost over!  We started doing tot school last January and I can’t believe it’s been almost a year.

Hunter’s letter was G this week.  We added it to our tree and he was able to find it and point it out.

Hunter made a G craft for our letter wall.

G is for Giraffe

Our color this month was yellow.  Hunter knows his colors now, so I will probably stop having a focus color next month and just make sure we do a lot of reviewing so he doesn’t forget.

We have been learning all about Thanksgiving, and Hunter made this Mayflower.

Hunter also helped to make a Mayflower boat- you can see the Mayflower post here.  Hunter loves it!  He loves sitting in it and it’s funny to hear him say he’s sitting in the Mayflower.

We also learned all about pumpkins this week and Hunter really enjoyed that.

The pumpkins are attached to this little board with Velcro.  We sang a little song to go with our pumpkin patch to the tune of “Oh My Darling, Clementine.”
I saw a pumpkin, a big fat pumpkin
It was hanging on a vine
[Hunter] came along and picked it
Took it home and said, “It’s mine.”

Hunter loved picking his pumpkins 🙂

We also cut open a pumpkin to see what the inside was like.

Hunter really enjoys reading books from our book basket.

We made a little book about how pumpkins grow.  This book came from the Pumpkin Patch Palooza unit I am using with Hailey.

We also planted some pumpkin seeds… we will see if anything happens.

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

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Week in Review

I am behind in my posting again, I have just been so busy!!  Here is a quick look at what we did 2 weeks ago.

Hailey made this soldier when we learned about Veterans Day.

Hailey is learning about money in math.  We played a game with the coins- each person had to roll the die and then use the coins to make the amount that was rolled.  The first person to reach 25 cents was the winner.

We continued our Thanksgiving Unit study, using a unit from The Razzle Dazzle Classroom.

This week we learned about the Wampanoag Indians.  There is a lot of great information on Scholastic, we really enjoyed using this site.  We also read “If You Lived in the Time of Squanto” and Hailey made this project based on what she learned.

The cover of her Wampanoag project.

The inside of project.  On the left she drew what the Wampanoag homes looked like during the summer vs the winter and the wrote a little about each.  On the right she drew and wrote about what the Wampanoag men and women wore.  In the middle she did the jobs and food and then drew a picture of a Wampanoag village.  She had fun making this and we both learned a lot!

In language arts Hailey has been learning about irregular plural nouns- we played a fun matching game to get a little practice.

Hailey loves to read!!  We are using the emerging readers that go with Heart of Dakota.  Right now the books are too easy for her, but things are going to pick up soon.

In science we did a unit all about spiders.  You can see the full unit here.

Hailey also put on a little puppet show for us.  She wrote a script, made puppets and painted scenes.  She worked hard and did a great job!!

Another scene in the show 🙂

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Bee Crafty Kids- The Mayflower

Welcome back to the Bee Crafty Kids link up that I am co-hosting with To The Moon and Back and Look! We’re Learning.

We have been learning all about Thanksgiving this month, and having lots of fun!  This week we focused on the Pilgrims and what it was like on the Mayflower.  Then we made our own Mayflower.

Hunter and Hailey painted a box brown.  We actually ran out of brown paint, so we had a little mini-lesson on which colors you can mix together to get brown.

The next day, Hailey added some windows.

Hailey made a sign and we added some sails.

Hunter and Hailey both enjoy sitting in the Mayflower 🙂

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Now it’s your turn! Link up and share what you and your kids have been busy making. Grab a button so others can join in the crafting fun too 🙂

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~Enter the direct link to one or more of your own posts that showcase a craft or hands on activity for children.

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Bee Crafty Kids- Turkey Fun

Welcome back to the Bee Crafty Kids link up that I am co-hosting with To The Moon and Back and Look! We’re Learning.

We are learning all about Thanksgiving this month and this week we did some turkey crafts.

First up- we made turkey hats

Hailey and Hunter posing in their turkey hats.
(I have to mention that we did this on our Wacky Wednesday fun day, which I’ll be posting about later.  But, Hailey is wearing her pajamas inside out for Wacky Wednesday.  Hunter is wearing his pajamas because he insists on wearing his Lightning McQueen pajama shirt almost every day.)

We made another fun turkey, that I had made with Hailey a few years ago.  It’s amazing how much she has changed since we made turkeys a few years ago.

Hunter adding some feathers to his turkey.

Hailey made a pattern with her feathers.

Hailey had written a turkey poem, so she added her poem to the front of her turkey.

Hunter’s turkey.

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Now it’s your turn! Link up and share what you and your kids have been busy making. Grab a button so others can join in the crafting fun too 🙂

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Rules are simple:

~Enter the direct link to one or more of your own posts that showcase a craft or hands on activity for children.

~A link back with the above button is appreciated, but not required

~Try to at least comment on one or two of the other blogs that took the time to share and join!