Tot School~Letter L

~Smiley is currently 29 months old~

Letter L...
Smiley saw my looking at Carisa's awesome preschool curriculum and wanted to do the powerpoint slideshow himself. I purchased the MEMBERS ONLY package, which is a fabulous deal for only a $10 (one time) joining fee! Smiley LOVED the slide show and wanted to watch it a few times in a row. Originally, my plan was to wait with the Raising Rock Stars Preschool Curriculum until he is a bit older (more like 3.5 or 4). I am still not sure yet, how I will go about it. For this week, we did the curriculum with him and he really enjoyed it. He liked the craft activities, and he said "let your light shine" throughout the week. He also enjoyed the little flashcards and learning a few new vocabulary words (he got a kick out of the lobster-loved the big eyes). He tried the writing activities, although they are still difficult for him. Also, really getting into the meaning of the verse and its application will be easier when he is a bit older. I might use some activities of the curriculum now and then do the full one again when he is a bit older. I think for right now, we will just play it by ear and see how it goes. We may also take more than just one week per letter to give us time to fill in with other tot school activities :)

Here he is working with the flashcards...
And doing the prep sheet for the letter L. He didn't stop his line at the start, but kept on doing his vertical line down to the bottom of the page ;)


We filled in some ladybug activites from confessions of a homeschooler. The activities are super cute and I was very excited to show them to Smiley. I thought he would love this ladybug matching game, but he wasn't having it that day. Maybe another time...
He did like sorting the upper case and lower case Ls...

I printed some other activities that I still need to laminate. Hopefully, we will get to them this week :)

And we continued our foam letters. Here is our L is for Lion. It looks more like a giraffe, but oh well...

Smiley practiced a little bit of reading...

and enjoyed playing with this leap frog toy that we got for the flight to Swizerland...

Fine Motor Activities...

Smiley peeled A LOT of peas and loved it :)

He got a piggy bank from my mom and enjoyed depositing some Swiss Francs :)

He played with this fishing toy, although it was pretty tricky (it's a travel size version).

He worked on 6 piece puzzles...

Nature...

We had fun exploring the nature here in Switzerland. The little stream by my parents' house was a HUGE hit...









And so were the llamas (fitting to our letter of the week)...

We blew Löwenzahn (again the letter L :)), which is the German word for dandelion.

We saw ducks...

...and deer.

Outside Fun...

Smiley had fun playing in the sand

and making soup :)

buying fruit and veggies at the German market...

Playing in the water...

And chasing bubbles in my parents' garden...

Climbing a pirate ship...

And flying in a hot air balloon ride :)

We had a fun-filled week here in Swizerland :)

Tot School

~Smiley is currently 28 months old~

We left for Switzerland on Friday to spend a few weeks with my family :) We will be here for three weeks!! I am so excited! Unfortunately, due to trip preparations, our tot school week was cut short a little...

Learning Toys...
We got a new puzzle for Smiley, since the ones we have got a little too easy for him. He really likes this one and it is just challenging enough :)

Beads were still a big hit this week. He really likes making necklaces :)
He LOVES markers right now. He asked to color with them almost every day. His new thing is to scribble something and then tell me what he drew :) Here, he is making a goldfish I think...

He likes making patterns with megablocks...

And of course just making towers, seeing how high he can go. He knocked this over a second after I snapped this pic :)

FUN...

Enjoying himself in my parents backyard in Switzerland. We live in a condo, so being able to plaz in a yard is a BIG treat!

My parents bought this awesome water toy for him and he spent several hours playing with it yesterday :)

Tot School

~Smiley is currently 28 months old~

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...