Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Monday, February 15, 2010

Tot School

Tot School

~C is 21 months~

This week we learned about the letter N

 
Coloring the Newspaper

Gluing Newspaper on the letter N

 
Cooking Noodles on the play stove

 
Nesting her stacking blocks
(She loves to do this and does it often)

We also worked on her Numbers puzzle
Looked for Noses in magazines
Played with her Necklaces

Valentine Activities
 
Sorting colored foam blocks into heart shaped baskets


 
Matching colors file folder


 
Matching hearts by size

 
Hand print hearts

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
 
This is C's favorite book. I printed a tree and taped it to a cookie sheet (Sorry, I do not remember where I found the printable!) Because we read the book more than once a day and watch this video on You Tube all the time, she is starting to recognize more letters.

Check out 1+1+1=1 for more Tot School!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Other Valentine Ideas

I plan to add more to this post as I find them

Fine Motor
Lacing Hearts at A Mommy's Adventure

Sensory
Valentine's Day Sensory Tub
at A Mommy's Adventure 

Math
Candy Heart Patterns at Teach Mama
Candy Heart Numbers Game at Ramblings of a Crazy Woman

Art
Handprint Hearts
at Roots & Wings
Heart Prints at Ramblings of a Crazy Woman
Valentine Sun Catchers at Ramblings of a Crazy Woman

Snacks
Marshmallow Treat Pops at Ramblings of a Crazy Woman


More Links:

Monday, February 8, 2010

Valentine Ideas

Acitivites I used in my preschool room a few years ago

Ideas were my own or based on the ideas of others. I did not write down where I found the ideas.

 I made most of these activities using paper and construction paper.
I had limited funds for laminating so I used sheet protectors.

 
These erasers were found at the Dollar Tree several years ago

  
Sort the erasers by shape
 

 

 
I do remember these erasers were purchased from Oriental Trading from this assortment pack

Trace the letter H using heart erasers

 
Here is my daughter (21 months) sorting foam sponges that have been cut in half by color in heart shape bins
The sponges can also be used as blocks :) Both the sponges and baskets were found at the Dollar Tree several years ago.

 
Sort hearts by size


 
Match the cookie cutter to the heart of the same size. When I taught preschool I had 2 sets of the mat and children were to cut the hearts out of play dough and match to the heart of the same size the mat.


 
 
Color Matching File Folder

Heart Puzzles

Homemade Memory Game made from heart stickers


This was a favorite. The children were given a few pom poms and then had to stand above the heart and drop them on the heart. They then had to count how many landed on the heart and how many landed off of the heart. It was a great math skill game!

 
We made posters, but this could be made into a greeting card as well. The card says "Hugs & Kisses for You" and children were given assortment of X's and O's in different fonts. They glued the X's and O's and some hearts on the paper. I believe this idea came from a Mailbox Magazine.

Children wrote their name before the word loves and depending on level wrote who or what they loved (or the teacher helped) Then they drew a picture of what they loved in the heart.

Tot School

Tot School
C is 21 months old

This week we learned about the letter M!

I don't have many pictures from this week.

At the library the theme was "Yellow Moon" The project was to color and glue a moon on a piece of paper and put some star stickers in the sky. I never had an "M" activity planned, so this was it :)

We marble painted the letter M. C didn't like this at all. She wanted to pick up the marbles and paint with them like they were a brush.

She enjoyed putting popsicle sticks in the oatmeal container

Otherwise we just played with her toys, puzzles, tot tools, read lots of books. C loves the "That's Not My..." series by Fiona Watt. This week we checked out That's Not My Monkey from the library.