TOT School~ Letter T Craft

~Smiley is currently 31 months old~

LETTER T is for TURTLE Craft

I finally got around to doing our letter T craft this week. We covered the letter Tt a few weeks ago, but between traveling and moving, I just didn't get around to it earlier. However, I want to get back into our regular tot school routing next week, and therefore really wanted to complete the T craft this week :)

We made a T is for Turtle Craft. I really loved the cute turtle that Erin over at Confessions of a Homeschooler uses for her activities and used that design to inspire our foam letter craft :)

Learning Toys...

We finally got our little critters back out after quite some time and Smiley loved it. He sorted them by color and then set up an animal parade...

We played with megablocks...

He played a sorting game that we got at a consignment store a while back...

We recently got a plastic piggy bank for Smiley since he loves playing with coins ;) We got his piggy bank at the container store...

Tot School~Letter T, Week 2

~Smiley is currently 30 months old~

Letter Tt...
This was our second week of letter T activities. We again used many activities from RRSP.

We worked with the letter T vocabulary cards. Smiley already knew all the words and he was very proud of himself going through them so quickly :)

We used the worksheet to trace the letter T. It was more of a coloring the letter than an actual tracing. Still not quite there yet, which is totally fine with me ;)
We also did some more activities that we found at confessions of a homeschooler.

Smiley did the letter Tt puzzle...
He was really really really into this counting activity. Huge hit!

Learning Toys...
Much of our week was spent with different learning toys. Here are a few of the things we worked with:

Connect 4. This has to be in his top two favorite board games EVER. It's right up there with Scatterpillar :)


Some other uses of the game...

We played with pasta again this week. Another activity he can't get enough of :)

And we played with his pegs...

We did quite a few puzzles this week as well...

Fun...

A fun 4th of July picnic with our friends :) The kids even stayed up to see the fireworks. They were completely fascinated by them.

Tot School~ Letter Tt

~Smiley is currently 29 months old~

Letter T~ T is for Turtle; 10 Commandments
We had fun with the Letter Tt this week. Again, we used several of Carisa's RRSP activities.

We talked about the verse for this week and about its application. Smiley then colored the coloring page. He went a little wild with the green ;)

Smiley was really into coloring this week and asked for coloring activities often. Here he is coloring the tablets of the 10 Commandments art activity. He then glued them on all by himself. He did really great with this and loved it :)
He traced the horizontal and vertical lines as a pre-writing activity and did pretty well with this. This is an area I want to continue to focus on over the next few weeks...

We also used several Tt activities from Erin's letter of the week curriculum.

Smiley enjoyed dot painting, but wasn't really into using the template...

Instead, he mainly used the back of the page...

Most of his time though was spent stacking the lids ;)

He liked sorting the turtles by size...

He was really into this activity from Home Grown Hearts! Smiley loves trains, so this number sequencing game was right up his alley :)

He liked attaching the correct number of clips to the turtles...

He found and circled the letter Tt.

He traced lines (he was only able to do straight lines).

I ordered these magnets from amazon last week and Smiley LOVES them. He wasn't very interested in the intended activity (to use them with these fun alphabet sheets), but played with them in a variety of other ways.

He liked finding a specific color (i.e. all the red ones) and putting them in a cup or sorting the magnets into his sorting bowls... Maybe once the novelty wears off he'll actually do the magnet worksheets. I think they are so cute!

Learning Trays

One of the activities on our learning trays this week were lacing beads.

Another activity was his food cutting set from Melissa and Doug.

Dry pasta was a huge hit again this week. He wanted to play with this numerous times this week.

What have you and your tot been up to this past week. Use the button on top to link up :)