Tot School

 Hunter is 13.5 months old

It was a slow week at Tot School this week.  It just seemed like I was so busy there wasn’t much time to do a whole lot of activities.  We are considering homeschooling Hailey next year for 2nd grade and I have to admit I spent a lot of time online researching curriculum as well as looking for homeschooling groups in our area.  There were also a few appointments last week and it just seemed like we had places to be every day.  We did find time to do a few Tot School activities though.  Our “theme” was the color red and Valentine’s Day.

We made a Valentine’s Day discovery bottle which Hunter had fun with.  I used pink shampoo and some purple plastic hearts.  Hunter liked watching the shampoo slowly run from one end to the other.

Hunter made a heart using contact paper and red tissue paper.  He loved feeling the sticky contact paper.  You can see the full post here.

Hunter also did some mess free painting.  I put red paint and paper in a ziploc bag and taped it to the table.  He loved it!  And there was no mess at all, which I loved!

Hunter enjoyed playing with some red playdough and using a heart to press heart shapes into it.

Hopefully we’ll get a bit more done this week!  Stop by 1+1+1=1 to see what the other tots have been up to this last week.

Tot School

Hunter is 13.5 months old

We had another fun week of Tot School!  This was our last week of our farm animal theme.

Hunter enjoyed listening to the sounds the different animals make.  When it sings the song “Old MacDonald” Hunter sings along and says “E-I-E-I-O!”

Hunter made this cute footprint pig, you can see the original post here.

He also made this handprint chicken, you can see the original post here.

We practiced finding the parts of the face in this book full of baby faces.  Hunter loves this book!

We also practiced body parts using Mr. Potato head.

I used this old container and cut some holes in the lid and then had Hunter put pom poms in the holes.  (I saw this on someone else’s blog and I can not remember where I saw it to give them the credit :-()  He studied it for a while before trying it out.

It took him several tries to get the pom poms into the holes.

Once he finally did it, he was very proud of himself!
This kept his attention for a long time!!  He did it over and over again and was so happy when he got them into the holes.
(Make sure you keep a close eye on your children when doing this so that they don’t put the pom poms into their mouths.)

Hunter also had a lot of fun playing with bubbles, you can see the original post here.

The cow had a lot of fun in  the bubbles too.

This is not really tot school, but this week my little man cub grew up 🙁  He got his first hair cut.  He definitely looks more like a toddler and less like a baby now.

Before… trying to figure out what the hair dresser was doing,

Sad little boy

After a while he just sat quietly and let her cut his hair.

All done!

Looking all grown up.

Stop by 1+1+1=1 to see what the other tots have been up to this last week.

Tot School

Hunter is 13 months old.

It was another busy and fun week at Tot School 🙂  We are still focusing on Farm Animals and learning body parts.  I think we will do that for one more week and then move on in February.

Hailey worked with Hunter, trying to teach him the song “Head and Shoulders.”  He enjoyed watching and dancing along.

Practicing pointing to his mouth.

Exploring cotton for a Wooly Sheep craft we made to go along with our farm theme.  He really seemed to enjoy the cotton.

Hunter did a really good job putting the cotton on for our craft.  He kept looking at his hands when the cotton started sticking to his fingers.

Hunter and Hailey’s sheep.  You can see the whole post here.

Hunter also made a cow this week.  He loved putting the spots and nose on.

The completed cow.  You can see the original post here.

Hailey read Hunter a book about animals.  He loves this book because it makes the different animal noises.  He usually loves to listen to it over and over again, but he was preoccupied with something else this day- and as soon as Hailey finished reading he picked up the book and went and put it on the piano bench and said, “Aaaa daaa!” which is how he says “all done.”

Hunter loves his books!  He enjoyed this book all about horses.

Reading another farm animal book.

Hunter was also sick this week 🙁 and had to have some nebulizer breathing treatments.  During his treatments he watched Baby Einstein Baby McDonald which all about farms- he loved it!!

Hunter practiced stacking cups.

He loved putting the cups inside of each other and then shaking them.  What a fun sound that made!

Hunter also got into some mischief this week:

(Yes, that is my Christmas tree still up.  But since I couldn’t keep Hunter out from underneath it we had to take it down.  I can’t remember the last time we had our tree down before the end of January, I usually love to keep it up and enjoy the lights as long as possible.)

Stop by 1+1+1=1 to see what the other tots have been up to this last week.

Tot School

Hunter is 13 months old.

We had a great week at Tot School this week!  We are still focusing on farm animals and learning body parts.  Hunter is starting to point to his eyes, nose and mouth when asked.  Although he usually misses his eyes and ends up pointing to the side of his head 🙂

Hunter reading a book about farm animals.  This is a Lego book and comes with pieces to build the different farm animals.

After we read the book together we built the animals and then Hunter had fun playing with them.

Hunter worked on his farm animal puzzle.

Hailey helped me make a book about feelings for Hunter.  (Actual post about the whole process here.)

Hunter LOVED the book!  He carried it around and looked at it and when he saw Hailey in the pictures he would say “Hay-Yee!”

I tried to show Hunter how much fun it would be to stack some blocks.  He wasn’t interested, and as you can see he ran away so fast he ended up being a blur… which pretty much sums up how fast he always moves hahaha.

He did hold still for a few seconds so he could taste one of the blocks, but he did not want to stack them.  Of course a couple days later when my camera wasn’t nearby he decided to practice stacking.

Hunter painted for the first time this week.  He painted with farm animals, and he had a great time.  It wasn’t too bad at all, the mess was very minimal.

He had to check out his hands when he was done, he was interested in the different colors on his hands.

We had lots of fun together this week!!  This age is so fun!!

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