Tot School ~ Easter

~Aiden is currently 41 months old~

Our theme this week was Easter and Rabbits.

Letter of the Week

We read Rabbits and Raindrops

and made our R is for Rabbit.

 

Math

Aiden used our homemade marble run for counting practice.  He would roll the dice, count the correct number of chocolate eggs, and let them roll!

Aiden loved the Building a Bunny printable from Jolanthe @ Homeschool Creations.  He rolled the dice, counted and added the correct body part on the bunny.

Colors

We worked on colors with a Color Matching Printable from Home Grown Hearts.

 

Fun Stuff

He put together an Egg Puzzle

and sewed a felt puppet.  I’m really surprised how much he enjoyed doing this.   

 

We dyed Easter eggs

and spent lots of time outside. 

 

Like the outfit?  When Aiden got up Easter morning he came out dressed, hair brushed (fluffed) and ready to go to church.  He was so proud of himself!  Luckily he liked the outfit Daddy picked out for him just as much and willing changed his clothes.  

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~Cindy

Tot School – Dinosaurs

~Aiden is currently 40 months old~

Our theme this week was dinosaurs and the letter D. 

Letter of the Week

We made our D is for Dinosaur, and read Aiden’s favorite book Dino Pets.

Aiden used Do-a-dot paints to paint the letter D.

Gluing pictures of things that start with the letter D.  I found the alphabet worksheets at Homeschool Creations.

His completed letter D file folder.

Alphabet

This was Aiden’s favorite activity this week.  We stacked his blocks, adding a sticky note with a letter of the alphabet to each tower we made.  He wore dinosaur shoes that I made out of foam sheets.

I would call out a letter of the alphabet and he would roar and act like a dinosaur, knocking over the block tower with the correct letter.

Playing with his magnetic letters and numbers.

Reading and Pre-Writing

Reading with the Leapfrog Tag reading system.  I originally bought this for my daughter, but Aiden loves it!

Tracing dinosaur pre-writing cards from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

Math

Counting dinosaurs as her transferred them into pens.

Color Matching

He went on a dinosaur hunt.  Matching the colored dinosaur

to the correct color card.  I found the game here.

Tot Trays

I added dinosaurs stickers to strips of paper.  Aiden cut in-between the dinosaurs.

Painting a dinosaur. 

Using a dinosaur stamp.

Matching his toy dinosaurs to an electronic interactive game we found at the thrift store.   

Other Activities     

Pouring rice into a bottle.

Science

We read Fossils Tell of Long Ago.

Then Aiden went on an archaeologists dig.   I put the dinosaurs fossils and eggs, that we made earlier in the week, in the sandbox for him to find.

Breaking open the dinosaur eggs.

Kitchen Time

Mixing some flour and water.

Putting away silverware. 

      

Just for Fun

Aiden climbing the rock wall at the Children’s Museum.

 

Mommies favorite picture!

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-Cindy

Tot School: St. Patrick’s Day

~Aiden is currently 40 months old~

Our theme this week was St. Patrick’s Day.

Book of the Week and Craft:

We read St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning.

Aiden painted an Irish flag.  Then he marched in a one boy parade waving his flag,

and playing his recorder.

Math

Aiden loves playing with Stacker Pegs.  He counted them as he stacked them. 

He dug for pattern blocks that I hide in rice.

Just For Fun

Played in shaving cream with green paint added. 

When we were finished we put shamrocks, printed on cardstock, on top of the shaving cream.

   Computer Time

His favorite activity this week was playing on the computer.  He played some games at the Fisher Price site. 

 

Kitchen Time 

Aiden was my kitchen helper this week.  He cut up fruit for our breakfast.

This was not our busiest tot school week!  I had lots of activities planned that we did not get to.

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-Cindy

 

Tot School – Owls

~Aiden is currently 40 months old~

What a busy week!  We were out and about much of the week, but we still managed to have lots of Tot School fun.  

Our theme this week was owls and the letter O.

Letter of the Week

Aiden painted the owl and letter O, except for Mr. Owl’s tummy, which I covered.  After it dried, I went around the O with a black marker and added eyes and feet, made from construction paper.

   

Book of the Week and Craft

Aiden’s favorite book this week was Owl Babies.

We made an owl house from an oatmeal container.

When we weren’t using it for one of our tot tray activities it housed our owl counters.

Another favorite book this week was Owl Moon.

After we read the book, I hide our letter O owl, and we went on an owl hunt. 

 

Math

Mum-mum worked with him on counting, using an Owl Number Matching Flip Book.

 

Aiden’s favorite activity this week was using the owl counters.   He counted them and put them in order by size.

Tot Trays

He pulled colored owls out of the owl house, naming the colors.

We worked on letter recognition.   I would say “Little owl, little owl, time to fly”.  He would grab one of our magnetic Leapfrog Letters from the house

and “fly” it to our magnetic board, where he would tell me the letter and place it on a tree. 

 

He played with an owl matching game

and his Melissa & Doug Shape Puzzle.  (Just for the record, I really do brush his hair in the mornings!)

 

Play Time

We had a couple of sunny days, so we headed outside to play.  Aiden had so much fun digging in the dirt. 

 Ah, glorious dirt something we haven’t seen in quite awhile. 

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-Cindy