Tot School: Week 8 (15 Months) - Part 2

Practical Life: Pouring was another MAJOR HIT. She actually cried once when I tried to end the activity so we continued until all the water was on the floor or in the rugs…

Sensorial: We explored our Color Bag and did a Treasure Hunt for red items.  We also had fun with our water table!

Reading: Our BFAIR book this week was The ABC Bunny by Wanda Gag. We’ll probably continue reading this for another week.

Math: We worked on number “1” but she kept saying “2” J.  “1” is just soooo boring I guess! She did great with this week’s shape (“circle”) but that’s really due to the Sparkabilities DVD… she knows most of her shapes because of it. We both love this DVD a lot!

Culture & Exercise: We took the Walker Wagon out for a spin and found an empty bird’s nest. I think it would be great for a nature table but I don’t know if it was just built or not. Guess we’ll wait a bit and see…

A few random pics from the week….

Tot School: Week 8 (15 Months) - Part 1

This was the first week of our new curriculum and it went very, very well! However, rather than one super LONG weekly post, I've decided to split it out into two. This one will be a brief overview of the week's plan and will show pictures of the shelves with our "free exploration" Tot Trays (click for more info on Tot Trays). The second post will be similar to our previous Teeny Tot School posts and will show MunCee having fun with her trays and being engaged in our more "structured play" activities. So here goes:

This Week's Activity Plan:

• Practical Life: Pouring (water into a glass)
• Sensorial: Color-of-the-Week focus ("Red")
• Language: Letter-of-the-Week focus ("A")
• Math: Number/Shape of the Week focus ("1"/"Circle")
• Culture: Music Exploration (an instrument from our Music Box)

This Week's Tot Trays:

• Foam Letters & Numbers
• Shape Sorter Puzzle
• Laugh & Learn Piggy Bank
• Stacking Cups & Bottle/Straws
• Magnetic Dolls
• Hammering Block 

Photo of the Week!

Our Teeny Tiny Fashionista! ;-)

Teeny Tot School: Week 7 (Age: 15 Months)

My grand-mother/MunCee’s great-grandmother spent this week with us and we had a great time! Surprisingly, we actually did most of our planned activities.

Practical Life: I wasn’t sure if she was ready for this but introduced a Transferring activity anyway – just to see. She’s definitely not ready for the tongs but used the spoon to transfer one or two (lol) and liked playing with the pom poms a lot.

Sensorial: A little twist on the stacking cups; we added objects from our color bags and tried a bit of matching!

Reading: Still reading/discussing Brown Bear, Brown Bear! I told you we love this book! ;-) On our way to Brooklyn last weekend, my aunt taught MunCee A-B-C (not the entire alphabet, just A, B and C…heehee) so we also played with our foam letters.

Math: Also started working on numbers this week. We used our Peg Board to count to 5. Her favorites are apparently 2 and 5… she’s been saying them ALL WEEK!

Culture & Exercise: Nature Walk around the yard was fun. We have lots of birds, bugs, squirrels and even rabbits so it’s an interesting event. And MunCee got to work those muscles climbing the hill!

Happy July 4^th!

Teeny Tot School: Week 6 (Age: 15 Months)

We skimped on some of our activities this week to work on decorations for my cousin’s Baby Shower… but we made up for it with lots of “field trips” to Target, Dollar Tree and Wal-Mart!!! And to the Shower of course, which was sooo much fun!

Practical Life: Object Identification is becoming one of my favorite activities… I think MunCee likes it a lot too. I set out a few items on a tray and asked her to point to/hand me each item I named. I guess this could also be considered a language activity.

Sensorial: Play Doh is my new “go to” activity. A little bit messy but there’s so much you can do with it that it’s totally worth the mess. We talked about colors and just had a fun afternoon rolling, cutting and squishing!!!

Reading: This week we read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? by Bill Martin Jr. We love, love, love this book!

Math: To continue with our shapes theme, we identified shapes using our shape puzzle.

Culture & Exercise: Walking in Shopping Malls and Grocery Stores was our exercise this week. And we sure did a lot of it but I never remember my camera so no pics. :-(

Buh-bye!

Teeny Tot School: Week 5 (Age: 15 Months)

We had another wonderful week of Tot School….

Practical Life: MunCee has become quite the little mover and enjoys "helping out" at home. Her favorite chore is taking stuff to the trash, though we have to watch her carefully as she gets overly exuberant about it and starts dumping stuff that really should NOT be trashed. We've also set up a cupboard for her so she can get her own dishes and snacks, which she LOVES; she also has her own shelf in the fridge and loves to help herself to her juice boxes. And sometimes one just isn't enough... 

Sensorial: Stacking cups were a hit this week. We reviewed the colors as we stacked them up and then she had a blast knocking them over. I actually enjoyed this activity a lot; my inner child loves building towers ;-)

Reading: MunCee took the lead on reading this week. We let her pick what she wanted to read during our Tot School session. She absolutely LOVES books so it’s always fun watching her “read”.

Math: I found this shape sorter box at Target. (It’s from a “green” company but I can’t remember the name). We introduced it by starting with just two of the shapes. I was really impressed with her focus on this.

Culture & Exercise: Throwing and kicking a ball on the deck was the highlight of the week! We may have a Soccer player on our hands ;-)

That’s all folks! Until next week!