Tot School

~Smiley is currently 28 months old~

We left for Switzerland on Friday to spend a few weeks with my family :) We will be here for three weeks!! I am so excited! Unfortunately, due to trip preparations, our tot school week was cut short a little...

Learning Toys...
We got a new puzzle for Smiley, since the ones we have got a little too easy for him. He really likes this one and it is just challenging enough :)

Beads were still a big hit this week. He really likes making necklaces :)
He LOVES markers right now. He asked to color with them almost every day. His new thing is to scribble something and then tell me what he drew :) Here, he is making a goldfish I think...

He likes making patterns with megablocks...

And of course just making towers, seeing how high he can go. He knocked this over a second after I snapped this pic :)

FUN...

Enjoying himself in my parents backyard in Switzerland. We live in a condo, so being able to plaz in a yard is a BIG treat!

My parents bought this awesome water toy for him and he spent several hours playing with it yesterday :)

Tot School

~Smiley is currently 28 months old~

Language...
We took a break from our foam letters these past two weeks, but we continued to do several language activities. Smiley has started putting some simple letters together, particularly -at. So, I wrote down a couple of words for him that end in -at. One step closer to reading :)


We played with those letter cards to work on beginning sounds. Smiley searched for the beginning letter of several pictures...
We colored a Gg worksheet.

We used this "I spy" book to found different things hidden on a page.

Math Reasoning...

We worked on the concept "in the middle". He knew what this meant, so this was more of a review...

We then worked on "on the bottom", which was a new concept for him. He grasped it really quickly, especially when I explained that it is similar to "down".

We counted out his raisins with the corresponding numbers... (and yes, I really need to vacuum his carpet. Just trying to keep things real ;-) ).

We lined up the numbers 0-20.

Fine Motor Skills...

We did a lot of fine motor activities these past couple of weeks, such as building towers...

Lacing beads...

Working with pegs...

on two different days ;)

Working with lacing cards...

We're still working on our cutting skills. It's still a little difficult for Smiley to hold his scissors the correct way.

Lots and lots of time was spent playing with Playdough...

I got out some pasta, a bottle and a funnel and Smiley was in heaven :)

Puzzles...

Fun...

Smiley thought it was hilarious to sit in his sister's exersaucer...

In honor of spring we grew a couple of sponge animals.... a worm and a butterfly.

Fun in a jumper...

Some housework :)

Hitting a pinata at a birthday party...

Tot School~ Letter F

~Smiley is currently 28 months old~

ABCs...
This week, we covered the letter F. We read many books about fish, frogs, and fox.

We did a letter F worksheet, where Smiley colored all the items that begin with the letter F.
Smiley really likes the rainbow fish books, so I wanted to focus many of our F activities on the books by Marcus Pfister.

Smiley colored a couple of rainbow fish pictures that I found on the web...

For our foam letter activity, I really wanted to incorporate our rainbow fish theme. I cut out a letter F, a tail, three fins, a head and a mouth.

and lots of scales...

Smiley then glued the scales on the letter F and we attached fins, tail, head and mouth. In the end, we colored some of the scales with a glittery silver glue to make it look like the rainbow fish :) Smiley loved this craft, especially gluing on the scales and decorating the fish with the glittery glue...

If you don't add scales and make the F in a different color from the tail, fins and head, the letter F will stand out much better. Smiley already knows the alphabet though, so I didn't worry too much about the F not standing out as much...

I just added my rainbow fish craft idea to the Ultimate Alphabet Craft Collection. Check it out for some other cool alphabet crafts :)

Colors and Shapes...

Smiley is really into worksheets right now. He colored many pictures in different colors...

He found and colored all the circles on this sheet...

We matched colors with this game...

And worked on a mix/match puzzle...

Gross Motor...

I sometimes forget to mention on here that Smiley is a very active little boy who needs lots and lots of physical activity ;)

We do lots of movement activities at home...

and we go to the park at least once a day, if not twice...

Smiley is starting to get the hang of his tricycle. Pedalling is still a bit tricky for him though...

This boy LOVES the swing...

He does really well with the horses now. Climbing on and off on his own and bouncing by himself.

And he spends much time just RUNNING.... (he really only nows one speed, and it's running)

Teeny Tiny Tot School...
The tiny tot LOVES the swing as well :)

and going on the slide with daddy and her big brother...

and hanging out with mommy...

She started to really enjoy touch and feel books as well...