Tot School

~Smiley is currently 21 months old~

Tot School Toys...

Smiley had fun playing with his lacing beads. However, rather than using them for their intended purpose, he decided to collect all the bees, then all the flowers etc. A great tot school activity nonetheless ;)



Farm Theme...

We had some more fun with our Farm Theme this week. We enjoyed playing with our farm sorting toys. Smiley first sorted them by animal group. Here he is collecting horses...

Next, he sorted them by color...

To make it even more fun, we sorted them into the rings of his fisher price stacker toy :)

We then worked on this fun farm matching game

I also put a farm tot book together for Smiley and he had lots of fun with the different activities. Here he is working on some animal matching... You can find it here: http://lapbooksbycarisa.homestead.com/FarmTotBook.html

Love...

Smiley is completely in love with his little sister and can't get enough of her. So, much of the week was spent loving on his little sister :)

Pumpkins...

Of course we had to carve pumpkins! It was Smiley's first time and he truly enjoyed himself :)

Halloween...

Smiley enjoyed dressing up as a dog and going trick or treating for the first time!

He only wore his hat for a couple of pictures and that was it ;)

So much candy!

And...

just because she is so cute, here is another picture of his baby sister :)

Tot School

~Smiley is currently 21 months old~

Smiley was sick all of last week, so we did not have any tot school and there was therefore no post last week. Smiley's little sister got an early start on tot school though ;)

Of course, there was lots of cuddling with daddy as well.
Fortunately, Smiley was all better this week and we were able to resume tot school :)

Fine Motor Skills...
Smiley continues to enjoy working with pom poms. He asks for them every single day! By far his favorite tot school activity at this point!

These connectors also continue to be one of Smiley's favorites...

By the way, sticking them on your fingers proves to be great fun as well ;)

Puzzles...

We had a lot of fun working with puzzles this week. I will have to buy some new ones soon!

Tot Book Review...

I was going to print our farm tot book this week, but ran out of ink. So, instead we reviewed our ocean tot book, which Smiley enjoyed a lot!

Farm Theme...

We've been working on our farm theme for the past few weeks and this week included a highlight with a trip to a farm. There were so many fun things to do and Smiley had a blast!

Picking pumkins..

They had this gigantic sensory tub with beans and Smiley could not get enough of this! He spent a good 45 minutes in there just scooping the beans!! I really have to make a tub like this at home, maybe on the balcony, so we don't have beans everywhere!

Smiley had fun playing in this big wooden train :)

Climbing a hay stack...

Enjoying the petting zoo...

Playing with his friend in the wheelbarrow...

And riding on a pony all on his own!! Mama was REALLY impressed!

Helping daddy push the wheelbarrow :)

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Tot School...

~Smiley is currently 20 months old~

We had lots of fun this week with fine motor activities, color recognition, and more.

Smiley enjoyed stacking his pegs by color. He knows all his colors really well and loves showing off his skill :) He names colors for many things throughout the day.


We did quite a few puzzles this week as well...

Smiley enjoyed stacking cups. He loved this even when we first started tot school :) It just never gets old ;)

Stringing beads was another favorite this week. He's doing better and better each time we pull out this activity.

We worked a lot with crayons and stickers this week, fitting our farm theme...

And more pegs...

This Melissa and Doug stacker is always great fun as well. It's a great way to teach shapes, colors and sequencing.

We worked on our matching game from our ocean tot book.

Pom poms remain a huge favorite in our house. Smiley can't get enough of them :) He asks for them almost every day!

Stacking a tower with his wooden blocks...

Working on our ocean felt board. I actually didn't make it, but received it as a gift. You can find it at Lakeshore. I got it as a pack of four or five felt boards with different scenes. They are awesome!!!

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