Letter of the Week- Letter N

This week we are focusing on the letter N.  This is an idea I saw over at No Time for Flashcards– it’s a “Number N.”

Here’s what you’ll need: letter N on construction paper, another piece of construction paper, crayons, glue, and some numbers.

Color the letter N.

After Hailey colored the “N” I cut it out and she glued it onto the other piece of construction paper.

I put the numbers out and we practiced counting.

Then Hailey glued the numbers onto the letter N.

The completed Number N.

Tot School- Week in Review

Hailey is 31 months old.

We are staying with my parents right now until it is time for the closing on our new house (we are hoping it will be this week or early next week).  While we are here I don’t have to worry about packing or unpacking.  So, we finally have time to do some Tot School activities again.  Here is a review of what we did last week with links to the activities I posted about.

Our letter of the week was the letter M.  We made this Mountain M.

When Hailey made her Mother’s Day cards for her grandmothers she decided she wanted to draw pictures of everyone.  Here is picture of how her people turned out when she drew Gramma and Pa.  Both of them have a head, 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes, a nose and a mouth.  I thought they turned out pretty good for her first attempt at drawing people.

Hailey had fun just exploring and watching the colors mix together and change.

Our theme for the week was dinosaurs.  We made this fun dinosour bones picture.

Hailey enjoyed playing with these dinosaur bones.

Hailey decorated a dinosaur and then we wrote a story about her dinosaur, Haily-o-saurus.

Hailey loved this mat and played with her dinosaurs on it.

Hailey really enjoyed making some dinosaur fossils.

This was the first time I have ever done a worksheet like this with Hailey.  I think she’s ready to start working on following directions and coloring in the lines, rather than just free coloring all of the time.  She did really well following directions and seemed to enjoy coloring the dinosaur foot prints.

We practiced shapes, colors and counting by making this shape dinosaur.

Hailey found some foam dinosaurs in my box of dinosaur related materials and wanted to glue them onto some paper.

Lastly Hailey did some practice cutting.

It was a great week!  It was nice to get back into doing Tot School after taking a break to move.  Check out 1+1+1=1 to see what the other tots did last week.

Shape Dinosuar

We finished up our dinosaur theme today by making a shape dinosaur.  An activity like this can be incorporated into almost any theme to reinforce shapes, colors, counting, etc.

Here’s what you’ll need: various shapes cut out of construction paper, a piece of construction paper to glue everything onto and glue.

Glue the shapes onto the paper.  Make sure to talk about colors and shapes and count the pieces as your child adds them on.

Here’s Hailey’s finished shape dinosaur.

Dinosaur Fossils

We are continuing our dinosaur theme and today we made some dinosaur fossils.

Here’s what you’ll need: some modeling clay and some small dinosaurs.

Explore the modeling clay for a few minutes, it’s fun to play with.  I asked Hailey questions about what it felt like and smelled like, etc.

Then roll the clay into a ball.

Then press it down nice and flat.

Press a dinosaur into the clay hard enough to leave an impression.

Here’s the finished fossils.  It takes a few days for them to completely dry.  Once they dry you can add them to a sand box and then pretend to be archaeologists digging for dinosaur fossils.