What We Are Reading

I enjoy seeing what others are reading to their children and thought I would share a few of C's favorite books at the moment.

Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle

You can watch the animated version on You Tube. C loves it!

  

There Is a Bird On Your Head! by Mo Willems

 If You're Happy and You Know It! by Jane Cabrera

 Silly Sally by AudreyWood

Angelina Ballerina by Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr., John Archambault, and Lois Ehlert

 Another You Tube favorite of C's

 Hugs and Kisses by Christophe Loupy and Eve Tharlet  

 That's Not My Baby by Fiona Watt and Rachel Wells

C enjoys all of the "That's Not My.." books. Our library carries several of them. We own this one.

  I'm The Biggest Thing in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry

images from amazon.com

Tot School

~C is 24 Months~

This week we learned about the letter W!

Lots of Water play!

painting sidewalk with water

painting chalkboard with water

transferring water from bowl to bowl using a sponge

playing with water in the sink

A storm went through the night before and we had many water puddles in our driveway. C got rain boots for her birthday so I thought we would try them out. But she didn't want to jump, just look. We did see a bird taking a bath though :)

We found some worm tracks in our driveway

(ew!) And then we found a worm in the garden!

I painted the palm of her had to look like a watermelon. Then we dipped the end of the paint brush in black paint and C painted the seeds

She also used Water colors to paint a letter W

Other Activities

We made many Mother's Day cards (one for each Grandma and Great Grandma)
Found the idea here.

 painting with some packing peanuts that came in one of her birthday gifts

Fun Stuff

 Got to pet a baby calf at a local May Fest! Also saw baby goats and chicks.

 We went to a different park than we usually go to. She is still too small for most of the equipment, but had fun on this slide!

See more Tot School ideas at 1+1+1=1

What is 2?

One of C's favorite books we have checked out from the library is What is 2? by Molly Carroll.

After reading it a few times I thought that I could make my own version to give C for her birthday. I took pictures of things around our house and added some words using Picasa. I had them printed and put them in a photo album from the dollar store.

 

Here are a few pages from the book.

Other page ideas:

2 apples (like in the original book)

2 sisters (a picture of C&J)
2 Grandmas/Grandpas (we were lucky to get a picture of C with both Grandmas and both Grandpas)

2 crayons

2 puppets

2 red blocks

C really enjoys "reading" this book!

Tot School

C is 23 months

This is her last week as a 1 year old!

This week we learned about the letter V

I thought I would introduce an eye dropper activity. I gave her colored water to transfer in to different sized Vases. She didn't really get it, she tried to use it like a spoon. So maybe will try this again in a few months.  She still thought it was neat when I did it though.

Wore her Vest (for a short time which was odd since she usually loves wearing it) while sipping a Very Berry Smoothie

I helped her find Vegetables in a seed catalog and I cut them out. We worked together to glue them on paper and I cut out the letter V shape.

We also :

Picked tulips to put in a Vase

Read many, many books. C & J were given some new books last weekend from my BIL's girlfriend as a gift and 2 happened to go along with the "V" theme. Violet's House and If I were a Giraffe (one page says "my ears would be Velvety"). We also checked out It's V! from the library. We also read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the Very Busy Spider.

I realize now that we didn't do an art project to hang on her ABC project wall. Maybe we will do one like the 2nd idea on this site later this week

Earth Day

I helped her glue pieces of tissue paper on an old Danimals bottle to make a Vase. I put on a coat of Mod Podge to finish it. 

Later we went out to collect "flowers" to put in the vase.

She colored a coffee filter with blue and green markers. Then we took a water spray bottle and sprayed water on it and let the colors spread to make an Earth. I don't have a final picture of it.

Other Acitivities

Painted with watercolors

I found these foam numbers in my collection and she really wanted to play with them. She had fun naming them and sorting by either color or number.

Tot School

~C is 23 months~

This week we learned about the letter U.

watched a helium filled balloon go Up (over and over again)

crawling Under a table

I showed her 3 cards and she told me which ones were Upside down

Matching raindrops to the Umbrella.

I made this when I taught preschool. I only gave a few for C to do at a time.

having fun with the paper Umbrellas :)

She colored the letter U blue and added things that belong Underwater and made a hand print Umbrella

Stood Under the Umbrella

I saw a cute idea to make an Uncle memory game, but never got around to making that.

Other Activities

C really enjoys doing puzzles and most she has are getting too easy for her to do.

She got this Abby puzzle for Christmas and I thought this would be a good time to start working on harder puzzles. First I took 1 piece off and asked her where it goes (here she is showing her baby doll the puzzle piece). I did this a few times with different pieces. Then I took off 2 pieces then 3. That is all we did this week for this puzzle and she really enjoyed putting it together this way. It wasn't too hard and didn't frustrate her. I will continue to take more pieces off until she can do the entire puzzle on her own :) She also got a Winnie the Pooh puzzle and will be getting a Dora puzzle for her birthday that are similar, and I plan on introducing those in the same way.

I finally got around to adding rice to her sensory tub and she really enjoyed playing with it this week.