Sep. 25, 2009 - Tot School -- Week 8
or go to this weeks post HERE.
Alrighty, it's the last week before our break and most of us have been down with a little bug. 
My husband would like to thank all of those people who have been coming into work sick. It was just a matter of time before he got it, then passed it on to the rest of us. We've plowed on with most of our school work, although on my worst day, we skipped Tot School. Here's this weeks wrap up:
Monday:
- Cutting page "Mowing the Grass"
- How to build an A blocks, focusing on letter E & F (We made this a "magic trick -- first he built an E, then we magically turned it into an F by taking the bottom piece away. He loved it! We did the same thing up on the white board using dry erase markers)
- Handwriting Without Tears page
- Putting puff balls into a jar using tongs
- Number puzzle
Pictures from Monday:
Wow he's really improved with scissors! He was able to "mow the grass" pretty accurately. He was very proud of himself.
This was a nice change of pace for him than sorting by color or something. Once he got them all in, he spent a good bit of time walking around shaking it. Thankfully, those puff balls are almost completely silent! :)
Tuesday: Mommy's just not up for this today!!
Wednesday:
- sticking feathers in Playdoh
- Rhyme puzzle
- Perfection game (travel size)
- Handwriting Without Tears page
Pictures from Wednesday:
He sure liked "decorating" the playdoh!
This was a great find at the grocery store! It's a pack of rhyming puzzle pieces. He had to match up the two words that rhymed (like box / fox). Only the pieces that rhyme will fit together. He needs a lot of work on this, it's the one game on Earobics he just can't get past the first level. It doesn't surprise me at all, I knew he couldn't rhyme. He really enjoyed these (I only gave him five for this first time), so hopefully they will help him improve.
Oh. My. Goodness. This was the big hit of the week. This is a little travel edition of the old game Perfection. You know, set the timer & try to get all of the shapes in before they pop. We didn't set the timer, just let him work at getting the shapes in their proper position. He did this.....I don't know how many times. Once he got all of the shapes in we set the timer to pop them. I thought he might get to frustrated with this, but it kept him interested and succeeding just enough to keep going. It's a great visual-spatial and visual-perception toy. I'm going to have to bring this one out often!! The down side: once he plays with it everyone wants turns doing it! It tends to stall our school day, but really it's worth it!
Thursday:
- Playdoh
- Fish & Frog foam stickers on letter F page
- ABC-123 page
- Kumon folding page
- make a Rainbow Fish (this goes along with reading the Rainbow Fish book) He really enjoyed the book, not so much the craft. He glued four little aluminum foil pieces to his fish and was done.
Pictures from Thursday:
He really enjoyed this, however the little foam stickers were too sticky!! I took off the little paper pieces on the back (because he would never be able to get that off!) and stuck them on a plastic page protector. That usually makes the stickers easy to remove, but not these stickers!! He was able to get a dozen or so on to his paper before giving up.
Kumon folding page. The page started as a little bear in his undies. Once you folded the paper correctly, the bear was dressed. Peanut got quite the kick out of this: "Naked. Not naked! Naked. Not naked!" Ahh, little boys.
Playdoh, because it seems to be his favorite thing lately.
Friday:
- Handwriting Without Tears page
- Little Hands to Heaven, Letter F Hide & Seek page
- Fork & Spoon visual discrimination hunt
- Spooning beads with straw/spoon
Pictures from Friday:
Hmmm, where are all of those little F's hiding? He has actually gotten much better at this sheet. He gets one every week that features the letter of the week. Today he found about half of the hidden F's, both upper case and lower case. Yeah, Peanut!
Visual discrimination hunt as suggested by our O.T. He did this without a problem, the spoon to fork ratio was 1:1. Next time I'll lower the fork ratio to make it a little more difficult.
I found that neat spoon/straw (a spoon with a straw for a handle) at the grocery store. He had fun spooning the beads into a cute little ice cube tray I also found in the clearance section :)
On a sad note this week, we found out that our O.T. is moving out of state with her new husband. 
It's effective almost immediately, so no more Miss Michele. Peanut will miss her. She was in a really bad car accident earlier this year, and while she was out recovering Peanut would ask all the time if Miss Michele was back yet. I know he'll miss her a bunch! I'm aprehensive about the new O.T. we've been assigned to. He's so mellow he almost puts me to sleep when I watch him get excited. I'm hoping they hit it off, and that he will be as eager as our last O.T. was to give me ideas to use at home.
Comments
Sep. 25, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by joyofsix
Just wanted to say I love your blog and shamelessly steal ideas for my kindergartner.
Sep. 26, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by barrellfullofmonkeys
I LOVE that you love my blog :) I'm always thinking it's just family back home checking this blog. I always get excited when someone unrelated to me leaves a comment ;)
Please, shamelessly steal away, it's how we all get new ideas!
Kathy
Sep. 28, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Maureen
Sorry you were feeling yuck this week. You still managed to get alot accomplished! I like the fork/spoon visual discrimination activity. I'm going to borrow that idea.:)
www.spelloutloud.com
Sep. 28, 2009 - <em>Untitled Comment</em>
Posted by Mackenzie
Great ideas!!! I wish my tot were a little older so we could steal some of them now. LOL
Sorry, I'm signed in under my daughter's blog. LOL
Mine is at www.prncsstefy.blogspot.com
Edited by Mackenzie on Sep. 28, 2009 at 4:21 PM
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