Zoo Fun

This week we had a lot of fun with our zoo unit.  The boy loves animals.  So, he was very excited to see the new activities for this week. 

 

Language Arts: Lil’man worked on beginning writing skills by tracing dotted lines.  I love how hard he is concentrating!

He also worked on finding and matching the letters that spelled different zoo animals. 

 

Math Concepts:  He was so excited to do another roll and graph.  It was the first thing he wanted to do out of everything we did this week. 

Other Activities: The boy got a new Tot Pack this week too.  Here are a couple shots of him doing the Size Sequencing activity and the Zoo Animal Colors book.

 

Since we were learning all about the zoo, we made sure to take a trip to the local zoo.   It was a great day!  The animals were quite friendly and were much closer to the gates then normal!  The Bongo below was so close you could actually touch him. 

 

My Favorite: Lil’man was blessed with a hat this week.  And this is how he decided to wear it. 

As he was checking out himself in the mirror, he said “Look at my cool hat.”  Special thanks to friends for giving it to him.  He absolutely loves it!

 

Finally, here are some of the books that we've been reading:

Make sure and visit Amber at The Belly of The Whale to see more activities in action from our unit. Also, don’t forget, you can download all the Zoo printables (not all seen here) for FREE at 2 Teaching Mommies.

I hope you’re able to come back next week and check out what we did! 

 

We’re linking up to: Preschool Corner, 1+1+1=1, and Weekly Wrap-Up.

Dr. Seuss

We had a change of plans this week, so we didn’t get much Tot School done.  However, I wanted to share what we started working on, just in case you need some ideas for celebrating Read Across America and Dr. Seuss’ b-day next week.  And while you're here make sure to check out our Dr. Seuss Finger Painting Hat Craft.

(Click the image above to find the printables.)

Hopefully, I’ll have some fun pictures for you next Friday from our Wacky and Crazy week. 

We’re linking up to: Preschool Corner, 1+1+1=1, and Weekly Wrap-Up.

Transportation Week

This week we worked on transportation activities. We didn’t get as much done as planned because the weather here has been absolutely beautiful. We just had to take advantage of the Spring like temperatures, especially since we were stuck indoors for most of the week last week. I’m so glad we did too because we may have snow in our forecast next week.  Make sure and visit Amber at The Belly of The Whale to see more activities in action from our unit. (Her post usually goes up on Sunday.)

 

Here are the pictures from the day we actually got everything done.

 

Language Arts: Lil’man worked on spelling by connecting the letters with our Transportation Word Puzzles.  The truck and plane were the hardest one for him, probably because of the length of word and the indistinctive shape. Just so you know, he doesn’t know how to spell these words, but puts the vehicles together which connects the letters.  Then I ask him what b-u-s spells and using the picture he says bus.

He also practiced writing his letters by tracing over the Highway ABC Cards from Making Learning Fun. 

 

Math Concepts:  He measured the length of trains for math.  I had to have him put his finger at the end of the train and then tell me what number was under his finger

Other Activities: He learned about different types of vehicles through a sorting activity.  The boy did pretty good on this.  We worked on one row at a time.  I would ask him, “What vehicle do you find at a (house)?”  Then he would answer and if he was right I would let him glue it down.  If he wasn’t I would help him by asking more questions.  The things he really had a hard time with were the boat-dock & sound and the airplane sound.

Since we were studying transportation, we had to pull out our train set. 

 

 

Here are some of the books that we've been reading:

So, there you go. Don’t forget, you can download all the Transportation printables (not all seen here) for FREE at 2 Teaching Mommies.

I hope you’re able to come back next week and check out what we did! 

 

We’re linking up to: Preschool Corner, 1+1+1=1, and Weekly Wrap-Up.

Valentine’s Day

This week we worked on Valentine’s activities. I don’t know about you, but I love holiday units.  Make sure and visit Amber at The Belly of The Whale to see more activities in action from our unit.

 

Language Arts: Lil’man connected capital letters to their lowercase.

He helped cupid get to his arrows.  Lil’man does pretty well with straight lines, but still struggles with wavy ones.

 

We have been stuck in doors so instead of doing our spelling activity that was planned we switched it up a bit.  We spelled Valentine words by going up and down the stairs.  I got this idea from Amber.

Math Concepts:  We took a Roll & Cover activity and made it into a game with number cards.  We worked together flipping cards and adding that many hearts to our Sweetheart box. 

He worked on counting from 1-10 and 1-20 with our Valentine Mazes. He got so excited to do this activity that he speed through it.  I had to make him go back over it because he made some mistakes on the 1-20.

Science & Fine Motor: One of our favorite activities this week was our Sweetheart Observations.  The boy had a lot of fun with this.  Although, after taste testing he thought they were salty.  So, I went ahead and put some salt on his tongue.  He quickly changed his mind and said they were sweet.

 

Lil’man worked on his fine motor skills with beading and I brought out his new scissors for the first time. 

 

 

Extra: We made our own colorful cardstock with tissue paper and vinegar.  Then we turn it into Valentines.

The boy also had a blast on our Valentine Scavenger Hunt.

Here are some of the books that we've been reading:

So, there you go. Don’t forget, you can download all the Valentine's Day printables (not all seen here) for FREE at 2 Teaching Mommies.

Next Week we will be focusing on Ways We Get Around! I hope you’re able to come back and check it out! 

 

We’re linking up to: Preschool Corner, 1+1+1=1, and Weekly Wrap-Up.

Tot School- My Feelings

Lil’man is 38 months.

 

This week we worked on My Feelings. We didn’t get much done this week, but you can see other activities from in action from this unit by visiting Amber at The Belly of The Whale.

 

Language Arts: We had a new activity this week, Beginning Sound Puzzles.  The boy was very excited about these simple two piece puzzles and did them several times.

 

Math Concepts:  Color & Count was another new activity.  First he colored feelings faces different colors (happy-yellow, sad-blue, and mad-red) and then he counted to see how many he had of each. 

He also did a Feelings Spin & Graph.   He really enjoyed this activity as it switched up our normal Roll & Graph. 

Social Studies: The boy played some Sesame Street Feeling games online.  He is a big fan of computer games.

 

Extra: We made Emotional Pizzas and watched Ruby's Studio-The Feelings Show for our Family Night!

 

So, there you go. Don’t forget, you can download all the My Feelings printables (not all seen here) for FREE at 2 Teaching Mommies.

Next Week we will be focusing on Valentine’s Day! I hope you’re able to come back and check it out!

Don’t forget to see what others are doing at 1+1+1=1!