Tot School

We didn't do that much this week, or at least it doesn't feel like it. C was sick earlier in the week and J is still sick :(

 Before C got sick we took a walk around our yard looking for signs of spring. She used her own camera to take pictures of what we found (pictures shown are from my camera)

 She water painted with these little rollers that were in our Easter box. I am not sure where I got them. I am guessing from an egg dying kit I got several years ago.

 I made this simple math game using a cut up cereal box. I put the cards in a tissue box and she had to pull them out and tell me how many stickers there were. I made them into simple math problems because she is always asking me "what is 1 plus 2?" or "what is 2 plus 2?"

 I saw this idea on Make and Takes and made my own version. She had to pick the egg that matched the picture.

 She loves cutting. I gave her a piece of paper and just let her cut. Then she started to make a little man using her scraps. I thought it was pretty creative of her!

C is also starting to play and enjoy games. We found Candy Land at a rummage sale the other week, we have played it almost every day since. We also had fun playing this Peg People Game I created.

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C ~ 35 months

C had to build flowers like the cards
I made these using construction paper. I wish I had a flower shape cartridge in my Cricut, that would have been so much quicker! :)

I printed a variety of flowers in different colors in rows and then cut them into strips. C had to cut them out and sort, then glue to make flower gardens. She only did about 3 of the strips.

Sticking flowers in play dough - first in a ball on the table, then we put the ball of play dough back in the container and she stuck the flowers in again.

 

Sorting pentagons, hexagons and octagons.

 Painting with plastic eggs

 J ~ 13 months

 

Playing with pom poms and a muffin tin. She wasn't too into putting them in the tin, but she liked taking them out to put in that wooden tray.

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A-Z paths ~ D’Nealian font
 (I used a free font called Block Letters Tryout)

A-Z paths ~ Zaner-Bloser Font

Go to my "printables" page for individual letters

 C had to dot over the letter A's along a path using our dot markers. I told her the lower case "a" (which was first) had to find the upper case "A" at the end. Idea similar to this idea at A Mommy's Adventure, which C also did.

 I also printed out the letters of her name multiple times, upper and lower case, randomly on a piece of paper. Then she had to follow my directions "Mark the letter "C's" green" and "Mark the letter "o's" yellow", etc.
**Updated 11.12.12 ~ if you are looking to do a similar activity, check out Little Miss Glamour Goes to Kindergarten, she created a free printable that includes all letters.

*You can find dot markers here

 I made this fridge magnet chart, idea found at Chalk in my Pocket. After she completed it, I mixed up the letters for her to fix. She thought that was pretty silly and enjoyed fixing my mistakes :)

 I also made some word charts. This idea is from Camp Slop.

I also  made these block puzzles for C, idea from Activity Mom. I used 1 inch foam blocks I found at Goodwill. I found these on Amazon, but they are pretty pricey. You could make this activity to fit what you have on hand.

C thought the puzzle she is doing in the top picture looked like hopscotch, so I made her an indoor hopscotch using painter's tape (since it still looks & feels like winter here)

And that's about it, my mom visited us Wed-Fri, so we took a few days off.