Farm Tot School

R is 21 months old

Tot Trays

Matching Farm Animal toys to the correct picture in a Farm Book

Collecting Eggs - putting them into a jar with a VERY narrow opening

Art

Covering the Piggy in Mud (brownish fingerpaint)

Branding the Cow (stamping the cow with an "R" stamp)

Activities

Making Butter!  (Shaking Heavy Whipping Cream in a Baby Jar)

Our Homemade Butter!

Enjoying it on a Tortilla!  Yum!

Field Trip
We went to the NM State Fair for our field trip this week.  R had so much fun looking at all the different farm animals.  We also got to see a live cow milking and sheep shearing, and there was an adorable kids area where the kids were able to pretend to be farmers.  R gathered eggs, harvested crops, milked a pretend cow and more!  We also found an awesome "sandbox" of corn kernels which he could have easily stayed at all day!  It was the perfect field trip for our Farm Unit!

Books


That's all for this week! To see what other toddlers are learning this week, check out the official Tot School Website!

Dinosaur Tot School

R is 21 months old

The kids both have an obsession with dinosaurs (as do most kids I think!) so we indulged that this week.
Tot Trays

Washing Plastic Dinosaurs

Matching items to fossils made in playdough

Art

Paint w/ Q tip (a book I found for $1 at Michael's)

I'll call this art instead of a real big mess!  I was reading to M in the other room and had forgotten to put her printables and marker away!  Oops!

He managed to cover both of his arms!  Look at that innocent face!

Just for Fun

Dino Nuggets for dinner one day!

We visited the Natural History Museum for a field trip.

Thats all for this week!   To see what other toddlers are learning this week, check out the official Tot School Website!

Dinosaur Preschool Corner

M is 3.5 years old

This might easily have been M's favorite theme ever!

Preschool Skills Printables
We used the Dinosaur printables from 2 Teaching Mommies as well as the Field Guide printables from the Dinosaur Train PBS website.  I didn't get a picture of her doing all the printables, but here are a couple.  It's a great pack!

We used the Field Guide to sort by diet (herbivore/carnivore/omnivore) and by how many feet they had (biped/quadriped/marine).  More than anything though, she just loved looking at them!

Preschool Trays

Washing Dinosaurs

Categorizing dinosaurs into small, medium, large

Matching items to Playdough Fossils

Art

Painting Dinos with a Qtip (I found these books for $1 at Target)

Just for Fun
We visited the Natural History Museum as a field trip.  We could have gone home without paying the admission feel for all the fun the kids had with the dinosaur statues outside!

Life School
M started ballet this week at the community center.  It's not a fancy dance studio or anything, but she LOVES it!  She has been obsessed with Angelina Ballerina for ages so she is beyond thrilled to finally be in her very own ballet class.  She's the one in the bright pink leggings.

Practicing Plies

Running like a chicken

That's all for this week!  To see what other preschoolers are learning this week, check out the official Preschool Corner website!

Transportation Preschool Corner

M is 3.5 years old

We had a crazy couple of weeks but still managed to squeeze in a tiny bit of transportation themed activities.  Not as much as I would have liked, but that's life!

Preschool Skills Printables
We used the Transportation Preschool Pack from Homeschool Creations this week.  What a cute pack! 

Preschool Trays

Transportation themed puzzles

Cutting in between transportation themed stickers - she is definitely improving!

Adding water with a dropper to make the plastic egg "boat" float

Misc.

Making car tracks in rice

Playing with cars on painters tape "roads"

That's all for this week! To see what other preschoolers are learning this week, check out the official Preschool Corner website!

Transportation Tot School

R is 21 months old

We've had a couple of super crazy weeks around here, so we didn't do as much school as I would have liked, but we managed to squeeze in a few transportation themed activities throughout the past 2 weeks.

Just for Fun
R had a great time playing with all his cars.

Playing with a car ramp toy that we have.

Driving his cars on a painter's tape "road"

I didn't manage to get a picture, but he also played "train" and "airplane" alot using our toddler chairs to make little rows of seats.  If there's one thing he loves, it's dragging those chairs all over the place!

Tot Trays

Putting Transportation stickers on a piece of paper

 Someone asked me if he is able to pick the stickers off the paper himself.  Nope!  He is perfectly content with me taking them off and handing them to him, then he sticks them on the paper.  M was the same way for a while so I'm not too worried.  Also, to be fair, it's hard for ME to take the stickers off the page!  I guess maybe it would help if I didn't buy dollar store stickers! :)

Matching colored cars to paint chips

This was his first matching activity, and really his first color activity and I was surprised at how well he did!  He is so proud of himself, look at him clapping!

Playing with transportation puzzles.

These puzzles are a bit advanced for him, but I had them out for his sister so he played with them a bit too.  He had a great time chucking the pieces all over the room though!

Sensory

R had a blast making tire tracks with one of his cars in a tray of rice.

Learn from my mistakes!  If you have a toddler who loves making messes, do this outside!  Let's just say rice is suprisingly messy and gets everywhere!

Life
R is finally making progress with his words!  In the past two weeks he has added about 20 words to his vocabulary and I am just amazed!  I think part of it is that we had a VERY lazy and TV filled summer (unfortunately).  Now that we are doing activities, reading together, and trying to keep the TV off, it has made a HUGE difference.

We had tons of fun with animals this week.  Daddy found a tiny frog and a praying mantis to show the kids, and we had some cows walking around outside our house.  (We are not too far from a ranch).  We also visited the zoo with some friends.

Teeny tiny frog from our front yard

Cows in the ditch outside our home

Praying mantis

Watching the seals and sea lions at the zoo

Don't forget to check out the transportation themed books that we read this week.  That's all for this week! To see what other toddlers are learning this week, check out the official Tot School Website!

Transportation Books