TOT School... We moved!!!!

~Smiley is currently 30 months old~

We finally moved!!! I am so so so excited :) We're still living out of boxes, but things are starting to come together :) I am almost done setting up our tot school area and can't wait to post pictures soon. We moved from a 2 bedroom to a 3 bedroom apartment, which is much better. Even our little bug has her own room now :) We're still limited in terms of space for tot school, but I think I have been able to utilize the space we have pretty well.

We still haven't really gotten back into the swing of things (mainly because I have been so busy unpacking that I just didn't have time to prepare things for tot school). I really hope to be able to get back into our routine very soon though. The unorganized chaos is beginning to drive me nuts ;) While it wasn't as organized or planned, we still did several tot school activities this past week :)

ABCs...

Smiley worked on his ABC puzzle several times this week. He did awesome with this :)

Smiley had fun with this file folder game that I got from Carisa's blog a while back as part of her Easter/Spring pack I believe :)

Smiley worked with dot paint, and as always, had to stack the paint caps :)

The little bug had to be part of the action too, of course ;)

Early Math Skills...

He still really likes connect 4. We mainly used it to make different patterns :)

Fine Motor Skills...

Smiley loved playing with this cloth petals. He stuck them into a dishwasher baskets and medela bottles :)

Teeny Tiny Tot School

~ Our little bug is currently 10 months old~

Our little bug is really into standing right now and is pulling herself up everywhere. She loves to be part of big brother's tot school time and soon it will be time for her to have more structured tot school :)

Tot School ~ Packing...

~Smiley is currently 30 months old~

Tot school was pretty much non-existant these past two weeks. We're getting ready to move next week and as you can imagine, we have been VERY busy packing. Pretty much all of Smiley's toys and tot school supplies are packed up and as a result we took a break from our regular tot school activities. Of course, there were still many learning opportunities, but I didn't have my camera on me for most of them.

Learning Toys...
We did play with two of our tot school toys this week (although I just packed those up yesterday as well).

The one toy I haven't packed yet is Smiley's train table. My son is IN LOVE with his train table right now. All he wants to do all day is play with this. However, he's not using his trains on it. Instead, he's using his CARS vehicles on the train tracks and the roads. He loves this :) He has many CARS in his collection now. I think daddy is almost more excited when he gets to add a new car to his collection. He gets all giddy every time he finds a car that we don't have yet. He even started checking Craigslist, lol. Oh well, at least they are cheap... Probably much cheaper than Thomas the train stuff ;) 

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 :)