Oct. 22, 2009 - Tot School -- Week 9, 10, and 11!
or visit this weeks post HERE.
I've been bad, bad, bad about keeping up with Tot School these last couple of weeks. Our whole family has been down with a wicked case of Cooties. Sick the week before our trip, sick for two weeks (and counting) after our trip. At least we weren't sick the week of our vacation! This is going to be one looooong winter if this keeps up! Because of this, I haven't really been good about keeping track of our Tot School times either 
Anyone who knows me well knows that this has the potential to send me into a tizzy. I am a slightly-obsessive record keeper. Do the papers get filed weekly? *snort* NO! But my planning binder where I keep the records of what we've done on a daily basis is always up to date....except a couple of places in Peanuts section now. 
Instead of a comprehensive list like I usually do, I'm going to give a fairly quick round up of our last few weeks.
His very, very, very favorite new thing? I don't have a picture of it, but Jump Start Preschool--Advanced is his newest love. My darling hubby and I had talked about finding a computer game that would supplement Peanuts learning. He very much enjoys computer games, but our old educational games won't work on the computer we had to get earlier this year. He. Loves. This. Game!! It reinforces his shapes, colors, numbers, letters, sequencing, etc. He eagerly sits down to play this, even when he's not in the mood to sit and do a Tot Box. I've made it a reward he gets to do after doing a couple of boxes with mommy.
Big news for us around here: we've officially filled up the first row of our alphabet wall;
That's A - G, and what isn't pictured is our additions of H and I. He's really doing great with his letters lately. H was a letter he was already very solid on, so we worked on the sound for it as well. I'm excited to report that he seems pretty solid on all of the letters we've covered so far. He still has days (or moments) when he forgets a letter I think he knows well, but those moments are becoming fewer 
The reason I use a tray for some of our crafts:
Oh yes I did. That's glitter people. Green paint and gold glitter on our letter G. Some of it even landed on the letter:
I think he enjoyed himself. Surprise, surprise, Big Man sneaks in to "help". Just get it on the tray, boy!
He loved gluing the foam hearts onto his letter page. He really got into doing the breathy H sound while smashing the heart on the paper.
We tried out a couple of new file folder games. The one above is a math game with fall leaves. The picture below is what I've dubbed the "Owl Alphabet" game. He very much enjoys it when I put the owl letters in a paper bag and he has to pick one, say the letter, then find the matching letter on the tree.
Again, you can print these games yourself with a free membership at the File Folder Fun website. If I had 24 straight hours of free time, I could get a whole bunch printed and made. Ahh, a girl can dream, right?
Also, every week we've been adding another letter to our tape letters on the floor. Below, we were playing a game where I held up our sand paper letters and he had to tell me what letter it was then run to the match:
He decided he wanted to take the match with him and jump on it too. That was alright by me, it's one more way of getting in more sensory input.....this time with his feet!
We also spent some time doing math activities:
Other Alphabet activities:
And some O.T. activities:
I was surprised how much more Peanut enjoys this toy now that he has a little more strength in his hands. I haven't brought it out in forever. I assumed he just didn't like it, but apparently it was just too tiring before!
Nuts and Bolts of varying sizes. Peanut enjoyed this, although the smallest ones were too much of a challenge for him.
Well, there you go. Hopefully now that things are beginning to get back to normal around here I'll get back to my more organized routine. Of course, the holidays are right around the corner.
Comments
Oct. 28, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Anonymous
This happens to the best of us! Dont worry, one of these days you'll get it back :) I like his file folder games, they are great!
Oct. 29, 2009 - Wow!
Posted by Anonymous
Kathy, you have the best homeschool lessons! I think I'm going to try that owl alphabet lesson with E!
-Jin G.
Oct. 30, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Anonymous
GREAT lessons. I need to start posting more about toddler lessons around our house. Poor guy, I leave him out of blog world too much! LOL
Hope everyone's feeling better!
Cindy
http://ourjourneywestward.com
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