Tot School, Fall & Letter Ee

~Smiley is currently 33 months old~

~Lovebug is currently 12 months old~

Fall Theme...
Most of our activities this week were centered around fall. It finally cooled down a bit here and actually begins to look like fall. We painted a paper bag in fall colors and then went on a walk and collected fall leaves.

We used the leaves to make a collage...

We made pumpkin muffins one day and banana muffins with chocolate chips another day :) Smiley is REALLY into helping right now. So, being able to help me with the muffins was a big hit.

We went to a farm/pumpkin patch and had a blast. We sat on tractors...

Played in a huge bean box.... The kids spent a really long time in here. They couldn't get enough :) It was one gigantic sensory tub ;)

We rode on ponies...

We just looked cute...

We saw goats and fed goats...

We rode miniature tractors...

We sorted pumpkins...

The had a lot of fun playing amongst all the pumpkins and we picked a few pumpkins to take home with us :)

Fine Motor...
Our little love bug played connect 4 a few times this week...

She really liked fitting the coins into a little nursing bottle. The coins are almost the same size and she had to really push the coins in order to fit them in the bottle. She really enjoyed this :)

Letter Ee...
Smiley worked on the letter Ee this week. We mainly used activities from confessions of a homeschooler.
We dot painted the letter Ee...

Of course, simply stacking the caps of the paint is still tons of fun as well ;)

It was the first time that we tried coloring by numbers and Smiley was really into it. We will have to do this again!

Shape sorting. Smiley wasn't very interested in this activity this week...

Tracing the letter Ee with play dough...

Using the elephant counting cards...

Seasons...

We focused a lot on the 4 different seasons this week. We talked about the fall- the changing weather, the leaves chaning colors and falling, the animals preparing for winter etc.

I found some cute downloads from montessory for everyone that fit this theme. Smiley had to identify to which season the different trees belong and then added the appropriate clothing. He really liked this activity (although I had to talk him through it a bit...)