Tot School

Hunter is 23 months old.

We had another fun week at Tot School!

It seems like Veterans Day was a long time ago, but really it was just last week.  Hunter made this cute soldier on Veterans Day.

Our letter was F, and Hunter was excited to use the firetruck printables from Royal Baloo.

More fun with fire trucks… and wearing his turkey hat.

Gluing firetrucks onto the letter F.

Hunter added the F to our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree.

Hunter made this F craft from Totally Tots.

The finished F is for Fox.

Trying out some scissors.

I recently added a little basket for books related to what we are studying and Hunter loves looking at the books.  Hailey was learning about spiders last week and I had read this book during science.  I looked over later and Hunter was sitting there reading it!  I love that he usually picks the books we have read together.

Just doing some coloring.

I just thought this was cute- I looked on one of my bins and saw that Hunter had set up Woody and Buzz with a little snack.  I love how he plays and pretends now.  This age is just so much fun!!

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Tot School

Hunter is 23 months old

We had another fun week at Tot School!

We are learning all about spiders and we even caught a spider to observe.  Hunter really liked watching the spider!

Color sorting with M&Ms onto different colored spiders.

I asked Hunter, “Where is the blue one?” and he pointed in his mouth because he had just eaten a blue M&M 🙂

Hunter loved searching through rice for some plastic spiders.

We sang a little spider song.  We sang it to the tune of 10 little Indians:
Crawl, crawl, crawl like a spider.
Crawl, crawl, crawl like a spider.
Crawl, crawl, crawl like a spider.
Crawl around your web.
We used different words in place of crawl like pounce, jump, etc.

You can see some of the other spider fun we had by clicking on the picture above.

Hunter enjoyed some sensory bags this week- this one had shaving cream in it.

He also played with a sensory bag with shampoo in it.

E was our letter this week- we were making an elephant and didn’t have any gray paper, so Hunter colored the paper.

Making the E craft

E is for Elephant

Hunter played with his letter magnets and sang the ABCs

We added the letter E to our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree.

We have been learning about Thanksgiving and this week we learned about the Sioux Indians and made tee-pees.  Hunter worked a long time coloring his tee-pee.

Hailey and Hunter’s finished tee-pees.

Hunter likes to do whatever Hailey is doing, so he worked on coloring a picture just like she was doing.

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Tot School

Hunter is 22 1/2 months old.

We had a fun week at Tot School!

I just have to say that as you look at the pictures you might notice that Hunter is wearing the same shirt every day.  He has recently become quite attached to his Lightning McQeen pajama shirt.  He insists on wearing all. of. the. time!  I decided that if we are not leaving the house I am not fighting that battle with him.  So, that is why he always has it on 🙂

Hunter’s letter this week was the letter D.

He made a “D is for Dinosaur” using an idea I saw at Homeschool Creations.

Hunter loves the do-a-dot markers and had fun stamping the letter D from COAH.

Hunter practiced his counting, using these fun dinosaur numbers.  (from COAH)

I had Hunter use this printable to practice color sorting. (from COAH)

We have been learning all about bats, so Hunter had fun making a bat craft.

Hunter’s finished bat.

We learned how a mother bat uses her sense of smell to find her baby bat.  I dipped cotton balls into different things like vinegar, vanilla, coffee and perfume.  I let Hailey pick a “baby” and then I blind folded her and had her find her “baby” using her sense of smell.  We had a lot of fun doing that, so Hunter wanted to be a part too.  He loved smelling the different cotton balls!

Hailey just started a spider unit and this was our first experiment.  We learned how spiders eat their prey by injecting venom into it, which turns the insect into liquid and then the spider drinks the food.  So, Hunter wanted to do the experiment too!  We put our prey (a sugar cube) in a cup.  Then we injected it with venom (water) and drank our prey.  They both loved it!

We made a spider glyph, which you can see here.  Hunter made his the way he wanted and didn’t really care about the directions 😉  I love how his spider turned out!

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Tot School

Hunter is 22 months old.

My Tot School post is a bit late this week, but sometimes life just gets in the way…  Last week we had a death in our family, someone much too young to die.  She left behind her husband and their almost 4 year old little boy.  In addition she left behind her sisters and parents, and no parent should ever have to bury a child.  So, it was a very sad and hard week for us.  Other than the posts I had already set to auto-post I didn’t do any blogging.  We would definitely appreciate your prayers.

Here are the activities we did last week:

On Columbus Day we learned about Columbus and made a map.

Hunter also made a boat for Columbus Day.  You can see my original post with our Columbus Day Activities.

Hunter’s letter of the week was C.

He made this cute Crab that I saw on Totally Tots.

Hunter also glued some cement trucks onto the letter C, using the printables from Royal Baloo.

Hunter is learning the color orange, so we used the printables from Royal Baloo to make this orange page.

We have been learning about fall and leaves, and one day Hailey and Hunter dressed all in green to show the color of chlorophyll.

We sang a fun fall song and played in some fake leaves.

We also made a cute fall tree craft, using leaves to paint.

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