Tot School-Christmas Trees

Lil’man is 35 months.

 

This week we learned all about Christmas Trees.  Below are just some of the things we did. You can see other activities from this unit by visiting Amber at The Belly of The Whale.

 

Language Arts: For our language arts this week we put the alphabet in order by using the ABC Christmas Light printable.  We strung the lights on yarn and then hung them up in the boys room.  He loves that he gets Christmas decorations in his room!

 

 

We also made an O for ornament craft. (And yes, he’s sporting his Buzz Light-year wings that he got as a gift from his cousins.)

 

   

 

Math Concepts:  For math this week we created a Math Christmas Tree.  Each day we added something new to our tree.  The first day we made a light pattern, the next day we added shape ornaments and finished off our math tree with counting presents. The Belly of the Whale will have pictures from day 1 and 3, so make sure you check it out.

 

   

Just for Fun: This week we created some Apple Cinnamon Ornaments.  They smell so good!  I think I’ll make another batch to use as gift tags for my cookie exchange party.

   

 

We also read lots of books, which is one of our favorite things in this household.

My Favorite: I have a few pictures from our Football Unit, that I didn’t post about last week, so I thought I would share those.  We had a lot of fun during our family night.

 

That was our week.  Don’t forget, you can download all the printables (not all seen here) for FREE  at 2 Teaching Mommies.

Next Week we will be focusing on the true meaning of Christmas by learning about Jesus!

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Tot School- Thanksgiving

Lil’man is 35 months.

 

This week we learned all about Pilgrims, Indians and Thanksgiving.  Below are just some of the things we did. You can see other activities from this unit by visiting Amber at The Belly of The Whale.

 

Language Arts: For our language arts we created a H for Helping.  We were so stoked when we came across the perfect image on the web.

   

We also had fun spelling Thanksgiving words, such as Pilgrims, Indians and various Thanksgiving meal items.

 

 

Math Concepts:  For math we decided to create another shape person, but this time we added a little twist by turning our person into an Indian.  We’ll be creating a shape pilgrim next week!

   

We also rolled a graph.  He loved doing this activity. We took turns rolling the die and then Lil’man added a dot sticker (labeling dots) to our graph each time we rolled.  The great thing about this activity is you don’t have to use the stickers, you can color it in, use stamps or even dot paints.

 

   

Social Studies: We read lots of books about the first Thanksgiving and some fun ones too!  We also did a few activities, which you can see at The Belly of the Whale.

Extra: This week for our family night we enjoyed watching Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving and making these yummy Pilgrim Hats.  This was a great activity that the boy could do by himself.

 

 

For Fun: My favorites this week was when Lil’man asked Daddy to sit on his lap, so he could read him a story. It was just precious!

 

That was our week.  Don’t forget, you can download all the printables (not all seen here) for FREE  at 2 Teaching Mommies.

Next Week we will be have a “relaxing week.” We will be pulling out some of our favorite Thanksgiving activities from last year, so I can start preparing for Thanksgiving.   I hope you stop by to check it out!

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Tot School- Gobble, Gobble.

Lil’man is 35months.

 

This week we learned all about our favorite holiday bird, the turkey.  Below are just some of the things we did. You can see other activities from this unit by visiting Amber at The Belly of The Whale.

 

Language Arts: For our language arts activities we did  another Spelling Puzzle.   These are a lot of fun and a great way to introduce the week. I ask him, “What do you think we are going to learn about this week?” Then I have him look at the playing mat with just the word.  This week he pointed out the T and said “ttt. T is for turkey.”  I think the picture books gave him a BIG clue.

 

We also did T for Turkey magnet page.  This week we decided to use pom poms instead of the bingo chips.  I really need to add magnets to them.  A project for another day.

 

As always we read lots of  books this week.

Math Concepts:  We had a lot of fun in math this week as well.  Lil’man creating different AABB and ABAB patterns using turkey feathers. 

One of his favorite activities this week was feeding the turkey.  We used actual images of what a turkey would eat and counting cards.  He would flip a counting card and feed that many items to the turkey.  We just glue the turkey picture to a cereal box and cut a slit in it. Unfortunately I didn’t capture the best pictures.

   

Science: This week for science we learned all about the different structures of the turkey by creating this craft we found at Danielle’s Place.  We added the feathers. The parts we learned about were: bill (beak), eyes, tail fan, feet and the snood.  (Although, I learned after the fact that the major red part isn’t called a snood after all.  It is called the major caruncle. The snood is just a small lump on top of the beak.) Whoops!

Lil’man also created a turkey life cycle wheel.  We attached the two wheels together using a brad.

 

Extra: This week for our family activity we made Turkey hand prints.

 

For Fun: My favorites this week are from Halloween.  He was one cute lil’monkey!

That was our week.  Don’t forget, you can download all the printables (not all seen here) for FREE  at 2 Teaching Mommies.

Next Week we will be focusing on Pilgrims & Indians!  I hope you stop by to check it out!

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