Sunday, May 30, 2010

Tot School

~Smiley is currently 28 months old~

Tot School

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...

5 comments:

  1. We have trouble with lacing at my house. Playdough is really big with my son right now.

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  2. What a fun week!!!

    I can't believe he's almost reading. What a smart little guy!!!

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  3. I really like the pasta/funnel/bottle idea - I will definitely have to use that! Your little man seems really advanced - I love all your activities! :)

    I think vacuuming is the chore that is the hardest to find a time to do it - not that it takes that long, but finding a time when all children are awake and happy on their own while I vacuum is annoying - my Hubby took the kids this morning for an hour so I could relax, and the first thing I did was vacuum. :) Pathetic, right? :)

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  4. Carrie- lol, I totally agree. Plus, Smiley is TERRIFIED of the vacuum. (I think it's just too loud for him). However, that makes it really difficult to find a time to vacuum his room, lol. Gotta do it next time daddy takes them to the park (I hate to admit that I still haven't gotten around to it).

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  5. so much fun!!! In regards to helping with making words, we love word world and leap frog word factory. We've also started hooked on phonics as well. :)

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