Hello again, and as usual I'm running a little on posting what we've done this past week with tot school. That said we has a very unstructured tot school week. With the first week of spring-like weather we've been spending a LOT of time outside and that means I've been slacking with tot school! We did still manage to get quite a bit done though and this is our week (including this morning!)
To start off, last week I finished making Bee's new wall display. It is a yard stick with clothespins glued on and each letter of his name on a clothespin. This way he can show off the work we've been working on without it cluttering up my counters and tables! This was the work from two weeks ago, letter B. And our old cake that we made for Dr. Seuss' Birthday. : )
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Some more painting this week! We started with three squeezes and ended with color everywhere!
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We've been working a lot with plants lately which you can see at my mid-week post for the HSV Garden Challenge. This idea for cleaning house plants with water and q-tips came from this great blog. I must say Bee was much more interested in putting the Q-tips in the water but did eventually get the hang of actually helping mommy clean/dust the dirty plant.
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This is an alphabet worksheet created by 1+1+1=1. Bee really enjoys these worksheets and does a great job making the sounds when he pushes the marker on the letters!
Bee's weekly Alphabet craft is a crab for the letter C. We are very loosely working in the Alphabet. Bee is still not really understanding that each letter is different so we will just keep plugging on and when he starts understanding better go back over the beginning letters!
And finally our display wall for this week!
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Our ocean felt board has evolved to become the Fidgety Fish felt board with our Ocean Friends. Fidgety Fish is one of Ben's favorite stories. It was written by Ruth Galloway and is really cute so when we read the story we move our ocean friends onto our felt board ocean.
Bee's favorite way to play is to dump all our friends off and on the felt board! I need more felt board ideas too if anybody has any homemade stories or ideas I could use.
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I've seen on several blogs in the past couple of weeks kiddos putting pipe cleaners into a colander. This was a first day doing this activity. Bee at first was a little confused by trying to get them in the little holes then after some demonstrations he went right on putting one in and pulling it out! He did have a great time working on his fine motor skills.
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running to the swings
being pushed on the swings
practicing walking up the stairs!!! (rather than crawling)
watching a friend's baseball practice.
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We still work on practicing life skills. In this picture Bee is practicing setting his high chair tray! He put the tray, fork, and milk up all on his own! I'm so proud!! : )
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This is my favorite picture of the week! Bee and Mickey are picking up blocks from the floor. Mickey even helped to put them in the box! Mickey has become somewhat of a favorite this week. : )
I love his happy expression while painting! A couple of ideas for your felt board: You could sort the animals by colour, also by size. You could play a simple "What's Missing?" game with him where you place two pieces up, show him, have him turn around and remove one. You could hide it somewhere near (probably an obvious spot) and have him find it. My little one loves activities like this.
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