Tot School

Hunter is 24 months old.

We took a couple of weeks off of Tot School for Christmas vacation and last week was our first week back to school.  It was a crazy week though and we didn’t get a whole lot done.  We had 2 snow days (when the public schools are closed for a snow day, we take the day off too!) and doctor’s appointments and just an overall crazy week.

We started learning all about penguins. Hunter is looking over his Scholastic reader about penguins.

Hunter’s letter this week was I.  He used the printables from Royal Baloo and colored an ice cream truck.

He found the letter I on his ABC wall.

Hunter glued ice cream trucks onto the letter I.

He also made an I is for Icicle.  Hailey has the movie Frozen on her mind, and it was super freezing outside, so she thought of making the I is for icicle.

The completed I for Icicle.

I thought Hunter would like this little Disappearing Snowman Cookies poem, but he wasn’t very interested in it.

I’m hoping for a better, more regular week this week!

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Tot School

Hunter is 24 months old.

We had a really busy week.  I was trying to get a lot of stuff wrapped up with homeschooling before our Christmas vacation.  It seems that I didn’t take many pictures but I will share the ones I do have.

We have been working on a really fun gingerbread man unit and we finished up the unit by making our own gingerbread men.  I cheated and bought them pre-made, so we just had to decorate them.  Hunter definitely ate more candy than he put on 🙂

We also made some playdough, cut it into a Christmas tree shape and then used the pieces from our Lite Bright to decorate the tree.

We worked some more on our nativity scene.

All done- we love how it turned out!

We finally made a star for the tree in our classroom.

Thursday and Friday were all about The Polar Express.  After we read the book together, Hunter sat down to read it himself.

Hunter made a train out of different shapes.

On Friday we had a Polar Express party, which I hope to be posting about soon.

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Tot School

Hunter is 23 months and 364 days (he’ll be 2 tomorrow, sniff sniff)

We had a great time at Tot School!!  Hunter learned about the letter H, owls and gingerbread men.

Hailey does the calendar every morning with Hunter.  She is such a good little teacher and Hunter loves it when she works with him!

Hunter loves the printables from Royal Baloo.  Here he is using several of them for the letter H:

Hunter really enjoyed this mini book about helicopters.

Hunter worked on coloring a helicopter

Pointing out the letter H

Gluing helicopters onto an H.

Hunter also made an H for house.

We added a wreath above the door since it’s Christmas time 🙂

Hailey has been learning all about owls in science, so Hunter has been joining in and doing some owl activities too.  Several of the ideas are from an owl unit by Deanna Jump.

Hunter made this cute little owl.

He really enjoyed this owl poem and loved pointing and saying parts of the poem.

He spent a lot of time looking at this cute little owl book.

I have been doing a Gingerbread Man unit with Hailey in language arts, so of course Hunter wanted to do everything she was doing too.

He worked hard on his coloring.

Putting together a gingerbread house.

Hunter’s completed gingerbread house.

I think we have read every version of the Gingerbread Man that there is 🙂  It was a lot of fun and I have really enjoyed the stories.

After we read “The Gingerbread Cowboy,” Hunter made a candy cane cactus.

The finished cactus hanging up on the tree in our classroom.

Hunter colored this after we read “Gingerbread Baby” and “Gingerbread Friends.”

We made this to go along with “Gingerbread Man Loose in the School.”

It was a fun week!!  One more week and then we’ll be on Christmas vacation- I can’t wait!!

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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.

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