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...

Tot School ~ Letter E

~Smiley is currently 28 months old~

I again didn't get a chance to post last week. I really don't want this to become a trend and will try my best to post again regularly!!

Last week, we did the Letter C craft that we never got around to when we worked on the letter C a few weeks back...

We then worked on the Letter D all of last week and made a D is for Dinousaur as found on totally tots.




We read several books about Dinosaurs and Dogs...

LETTER E...
Then, this week it was all about the letter Ee. We did our E is for Elephant foam letter as found on totally tots. I was gonna go for a grey elephant, but Smiley wanted to add some color. They are his letters after all, so I let him go at it ;)



We read many books about Elephants this weeks. Smiley loves the books "ella the elegant elephant" and "Pennies for elephants" that I got from the library. I highly recommend both books. They are really cute and we may have to go out and buy them :)

I got an elephant puzzle from Jolanthe's blog: homeschool creations. Smiley wasn't into assembling the puzzle at all. Maybe it's too difficult or maybe he just wasn't in the mood. Who knows. We glued the puzzle on construction paper and Smiley colored it, which he was really into!

What started out like this...

...soon turned into this! He actually kept going quite a bit longer after I took this picture :)

We watched a short video about elephants that we found here: kids national geographic



We worked on a lower/upper case Ee matching that we got from Jolanthe's blog :)

Pre-Writing Skills...

For the first time, I had Smiley make horizontal and vertical lines with these worksheets.

He did an awesome job with them and I want to include exercises like this more often now. I had no idea he'd be ready for this! I may go out and buy the Kumon workbooks soon... I actually saw them at costco a while back and am now upset that I didn't get them then!

Numbers...

We worked on a file folder game that we got from Carisa's blog. This one is from her Easter tot pack :)

We worked with our cookie jar. He loves this toy that I got from Lakeshore quite a while back :)

Science...

On cinco de mayo, after eating a bunch of avocadoes, we put one of the avocado stone in a glass of water and are hoping that it will start growing ;) Just have your little one (under close supervision) poke three toothpicks into it and then submerge half or so of the pit in a glass/jar of water. I will keep you posted on how this little experiment goes...

Learning Toys...

We practiced a lot of cutting with our safety scissors between all the crafts activities we did. Smiley still hasn't figured out 100% how to hold them, but he's able to cut pretty well. I had teeny pieces of foam all over his rug. Note to self: cutting on table only!!
Smiley is really really into the entire CARS theme right now. He loves all the characters and so does his daddy. Whenever they go to a gas station they usually come back with a new car for his collection. Smiley loves lining them all up on his train table :)

A new activity for his lacing beads...

Connect 4 is still a big hit with Smiley...

Animal matching with this cute game that he got from my mom for Christmas...

Playing with the movie theatre playdough kit that he got for Easter...

Teeny Tiny Tot School... ~ 7 months

I can't believe my baby is 7 months old already! Very soon, she will officially join us for tot school as well!

She has changed so much lately. She is sitting on her own now.

She has her two bottom teeth...

She is eating finger foods, such as banana, mango, whole wheat bread, puffs...

and teething biscuits...

which are really messy by the way ;)