Tot School

~Smiley is currently 25 months old~

Learning Toys...

We worked on matching lids to bottles, which Smiley was really into...

I saw this idea on a blog last week and knew that I wanted to try it. Fitting the little pieces from Trivial Pursuit into their round shapes. Great activity for fine motor skills!
Of course, Smiley wanted to match the colors as well. He LOVES matching colors ;)

The fine motor control that was required is still pretty challenging for Smiley. He was able to fit in several pieces though. We will definitely keep working on this!

Playing with his Melissa and Doug stacker. He is able to stack by shape, but hasn't figured out stacking by size just yet...

Working on an animal puzzle...

We practiced our fine motor skills some more by working with stickers...

We did some more cutting with our Melissa and Doug toy this week. One of Smiley's favorites!

Big/Small...

This week we worked on the difference between big and small and Smiley does really well making the distinction. We used our buttons, which include small and big sizes to work on this concept.

Shapes...

Smiley sorted his buttons based on their shape...

LOVE Theme...

We continued our love theme. Our printer is out of ink, so I was unable to print some of the fun tot school activities that I have seen on other blogs. However, we used our heart shaped muffin cups to do some more fine motor work, transferring pom poms with a spoon...

Teeny Tiny Tot School...

Of course, our little peanut is starting to do some tot school already as well ;) She is really into her baby gym right now and loves to bat at all the different objects. She's also mastered rolling and loves to roll around on her mat :)

Tot School

~Smiley is currently 25 months old~

Fine Motor Skills...
This was our first time working with clothespins. It was a little bit difficult for Smiley to open the clothespins, but he started getting the hang of it...

Smiley got this Scatterpillar-Scramble game for his birthday. It's great to practice fine motor skills!

Some more fine motor practice with our pom poms.

Practicing cutting with this Melissa and Doug Vegetable cutting toy. He loves this!!! (This was right after our pom pom activity, so please excuse the pom pom mess in the background. I did make him pick them up eventually, lol).

After sorting his buttons, Smileye enjoyed pouring them into different containers :)

Heavy/Light...
We talked about the difference between heavy and light by exploring heavy and light objects on our tot tray...

LOVE...

We made a couple of crafts to go with our LOVE theme.

Shapes...

Smiley does extremly well with shapes. He loves this game that he got from his Tia for Christmas. It's a shape sorting game from the learning store that I highly recommend...

ABCs...

Working with his Melissa and Doug letter boards. He really likes them. He knows all his phonemes, but hasn't started sounding out words yet. I think these boards are fun for him to start to grasp the connection between sounds and words. We also did a few activities on starfall this past week and I let him watch the Leapfrog Talking Word Factory a few times as well.

FUN...

We spent a day down in San Diego. The weather was gorgeous and we had a great day at the beach in Coronado :)