Tot School~Letter L, Week 2

~Smiley is currently 29 months old~

Letter L...
We continued to work on the Letter Ll this week. I like spacing our letter activities out over a two week time period as it feels less rushed that way. Also, I have found so many fun things to do for each letter that I really need an additional week to fit everything in :) Check out my post from last week to see what we did for week 1 of Letter L.

I again used Carisa's wonderful Raising Rock Stars Preschool curriculum this week and Smiley enjoyed all the activities we did. As I mentioned last week, some of the activities still are a little too difficult for him, and I therefore adjust what we do to fit his need...

Smiley was really into the popsickle crafts and liked pretending to blow out the candles :)


He liked studying the vocabulary cards again this week...

And measuring the verse. It's so tall mommy...

Tracing the letters is an area that is still very difficult for Smiley. I think I will skip this for now and focus on tracing more basic things, such as vertical or horizontal lines. I might get one of the KUMON workbooks some time soon or just make my own templates...

We also used many Letter L activities from Confessions of a Homeschooler again this week. I absolutely LOVE all the fabulous activities she has for the letters and they seem to perfectly meet Smiley's needs right now :) We will definitely be using them for our weekly letter activities from now on!

I thought this paper clip activity is awesome. Smiley was a big fan as well. Things like this are right up his alley :)


I found colored paperclips to go with this activity and Smiley enjoyed matching the correct color clip with the color of the ladybug. (He used white or black- the color of the dots- if the ladybug was in a color for which we did not have clips)

Some ladybug building...

ABCs...

I got a fun Write and Erase Set from Brain Quest (for the airplane trip to Switzerland), which Smiley was really into. He particularly enjoyed the erasing part ;)

Writing and erasing the letter O.

We worked on this Uppercase & Lowercase letter matching game from Homeschool Creations a few times this past week.

Smiley is really into Word World (on PBS) lately and I therefore made him Carisa's Word World tot pack. He was really into it :)

Random Learning Activities...

I gave Smiley some foam (dishwashing foam from the sink) and let him get to town on his little table. He cleaned for at least 45 minutes!!

We made Salzteig (salt dough). Combine one part salt with two parts flour and one part water and mix. You can then use it like playdough, making different shapes etc. You can then bake and color the finished products. I plan on doing our Christmas ornaments with this technique this year (that way it doesn't matter if they break...).

We made ladybugs and caterpillars, but I forgot to take pictures of the finished product :(

Some puzzle fun...

Smiley was really really really into slugs! It has been a little rainy in Switzerland lately and there are tons of slugs everywhere right now, much to Smiley's delight. He could not get enough of the lovely creatures...

Sorting balls by color.

We made a big circle with his balls and ran around it for a long time. We then proceeded to wash his tractor :)

Some piano fun...
Working on his fine motor skills...
And of course, playing lots and lots of soccer, fitting to the World cup ;)
Unfortunately, our vacation in Switzerland has come to an end. We got back home last night. We're still suffering from jet lag, but I hope we'll feel up for some tot school this coming week. Fortunately, I have our letter Tt stuff already planned out :)