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!

Teeny Tot School: Week 4 (Age: 14 Months)

We took a unexpected but "much needed" break from Tot School but things are better now so we're back! During our time off we still did a lot but none of the activities were really planned and I didn't document or take any pictures... but we're slowing getting back into our rhythm and are "SUPER" excited to be back!!!

Practical Life: This week we spent a lot of time playing with Stacking Rings. MunCee is getting much better at getting them on the ring. She got bored with this quickly so we had to moved on but reintroduced it several times during the week.

Sensorial: TThis The Color-of-the-Week ("COTW") was "yellow" so we explored our COTW bag. Another "not so exciting" activity... I need to get more creative with this one. 

Reading: We continued reading and exploring "The Runaway Bunny". MunCee's still not at the age where she wants to sit down to hear a story so we'll definitely re-read this when she's a bit older. She did learn the word "bunny" and can now identify "bunnies/rabbits" in other books, toys etc. Hope she doesn't ask for one when we visit the Pet Store ;-O

Math: Again no specific Math work this week. I'm slacking, I know! :-(

Culture & Exercise: We did Finger Painting for the first time and it was a "HIT". I wanted to just use "yellow" to go along with the COTW but she was having too much fun for that so we just kept adding colors. We did this activity for about 35 minutes.... so fun!!!!

Looking forward to next week!!!!