Tot School (22 months)

 Another post! YAY!! I finally got organized and bought some boxes for tot school! These are the activities for the next couple of weeks. : )

 We have opening jars and using a screwdriver to screw screws, Prewriting skills, ABC box, blocks, and matching/cooking. We also have football, soccer and bubbles for outdoor play. Below are pictures of Bee using the boxes. : )

Pre-writing skills

Matching pictures to the kitchen objects.

Playing with felt food after his matching.

Placing pom-poms on the letters A B and C.

We've also done a lot of outdoor things in the last month... Below are some pictures. 

Setting up a tent with Daddy for backyard camping.

Kayaking with mommy.

Reading a book while at a baseball game.  Sorry the picture isn't rotated.

Walking with our family. Bee wasn't interested in a family picture.

Yum getting in his "school" time too with tummy time.

This last picture is my favorite from this week. I wanted a nice picture with Bee. He didn't.... : )





As always, Check out what other kiddos are doing around the world at...

Felt Fruit

I have fallen in love with making felt fruit for Bee and Yum.  In three days, working mainly during nap and an hour or two in the evening after bedtime for Bee I have created these!

There are 10 strawberries, 4 blueberries, 3 orange wedges, 2 tomato slices, half a lemon and a whole pineapple. Click the fruit to see my patterns/inspiration.

There are so many more to do.  I plan to continue with fruit for now then branch out into vegetables and try my luck shortly after with lunches, dinners, and other things of interest. Like muffins, pies, cakes, etc...

P.S: I'm having a ton of fun making these and looking forward to doing so many more. If you have any ideas, please share. : )

Tot School (19 months)

~ Bee is 19 months!

 This week has been a very productive one as far as tot school is concerned! Which is a miracle considering we went to Six Flags too!  In these two pictures Bee is playing with his new cutting toy by Melisa and Doug. I found this brand new at a consignment sale and am so happy I bought it. Bee LOVES cutting the food and pretending to eat it! He's been really into pretend play lately which is a HUGE developmental milestone!

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 This is Bee's latest Sensory Bin! Right now it is mainly Easter things but will eventually be turned into the Spring Bin.  As you can see Bee had a great time making an absolute MESS of my living room. He liked scooping out the eggs, opening them, pulling out all the grass, getting in the bin, throwing the grass, finding all the animal hidden in the bin, and finally (in the end) helping Mommy pick up every piece of grass on our SHAG carpet!

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 I feel this week we've finally made some progress on a number or different skills! Bee has FINALLY started stacking his circles, octagons, and squares on different pegs some of the times! He doesn't do it all the time yet but he is definitely getting there so we've been making an effort to play with his stacker a lot and I'm making a huge effort to really use a lot of helpful vocabulary for him while we're doing it.  He's also started stacking his blocks on his own during his independent play. He's been able to stack blocks for a long time but not until recently would just do it without prompting. So that is pretty cool!

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 As mentioned we've been making a lot of progress this week.  That includes in the area of our felt board.  With Humpty Dumpty, Fidgety Fish/Ocean Friends/ and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Bee is now able to grab the correct pieces from a pile (most of the time) when we are reading about that piece in the story.  He then either plays with it a little bit (as seen above in the right hand picture where he is sweeping the mouse) or puts it immediately on the felt board.

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Finally this week we've been working a lot on different shapes. I realized the other day Bee knows not only circle but also heart, star, and triangle/rectangle (sometimes).  This knowledge came unexpectedly when Bee pointed to shapes on my clothing and told me they were hearts and stars. AND HE WAS RIGHT!! So naturally I decided it's time to really work with him on shapes! So I made a tot pack which I will blog about separately.  In this picture Bee and Daddy are talking about shapes before Daddy left for work. It is my favorite from this week!

As always, check out what other tots are doing in their tot schools!