Tot School ~ Special Arrival

~Smiley is currently 20 months old~

We had a fun tot school this past week with a big highlight on Saturday :)

Ocean Theme...
I really wanted to make a the ocean animals tot book for Smiley, but didn't have a laminator until recently, so I decided to extend our ocean theme a little bit :)

Here Smiley is playing with an ocean felt board. He really enjoyed this activity.



We then spent a few days on our ocean animals lap book. You can find it here. Smiley had a great time working on this!

Coloring the different ocean animals:

Looking at the finished ocean animal tot book...

Matching animals...

Numbers...

Vocabulary...

Here is the entire tot book...

As I had the laminator out already, I decided to also make a fun file folder game. I found this on totally tots! I decided to not glue the anemone in the file folder just yet...

Fine Motor Skills...

We haven't played with our pom poms in a long time, and this week I decided to bring them back out. Smiley had a blast and played with them for a good 30 minutes.

Sticking tooth picks in a parmesan shaker. Another old favorite :)

Blocks. Always a great activity!

Playdough...

More pom pom fun!

Finding all the yellow ones...

And then all the red ones... He loved doing this :)

Numbers...

Art...
We incorporated our ocean theme into our art activities this week :)

Life School...

The highlight of the week occured yesterday (Saturday, September 26) when Smiley welcomed a little sister. She's doing great :)

And a few hours ago, we all drove home. We're so in love with our family of four!!! Life couldn't be any better and we feel extremely blessed!

If you would like to read what other mom's did for tot school this week, please visit Carisa's Blog here.

Tot School

~Smiley is currently 20 months old~

Itty-Bitty Bookworm...
This week, we read "The Wheels on the School Bus". Smiley absoultely loves the book! We did a few activities from the Itty-Bitty Bookworm curriculum to go with our reading of the book.

We played driving a school bus, which was a big hit with Smiley ;)


Another day, we colored a school bus and then drove it around the house :) Another fun activity that Smiley really enjoyed. He particularly liked gluing on the wheels and driving the bus around his room :)

Colors/Fine Motor Skills...

We played with Smiley's pegs a couple of times this week and focused on stacking them by color. I would yell out "purple" and he would then grab all the purple pegs and stack them. He really liked this!

He also enjoyed playing with his shape sorter. Although, I think he sorted mainly by color, rather than shape ;) Nevertheless, he is really good now at putting the shapes in the correct hole!

Animals...

Smiley still really likes playing with these animal flashcards I got from costco a few weeks back. This week, I put them all out in front of him and said the name of an animal. He then looked for it and gave me the card. Again, he liked this interactive way a lot :)

If you would like to read more tot school posts, please visit Carisa's blog at 1plus1plus1equals1.