Tot School

Bear is 24 months

This week, Bear and I read a lot about butterflies and did some activities to go with the books.

• We made a caterpillar by stamping a water bottle lid into paint and then onto our paper. (She stamped the circles; I added eyes and antenna.) Then she made a coffee filter butterfly. We'll probably do a couple more butterfly crafts next week (handprint and footprint butterflies).
• Bear acted out the butterfly lifecycle and learned that a proboscis is similar to a curled up straw. Bear can now say proboscis :-P I love teaching her words :)
  
• Bear used her Do-A-Dot markers on The Very Hungry Caterpillar magnet pages.
• We sang a lot of butterfly songs from preschooleducation.com
  

Some other non butterfly themed things we did include:

• icecream patterning from Making Learning Fun
• watermelon counting boards
• making a rainbow fruit salad
  
• playing Hop on a color (place colored construction paper on the floor and take turns asking each other to hop or run to a certain color)
• a selfmade continent puzzle - Bear can identify all the continents
• painting
• play dough
• some of our other number activities from previous weeks
  
• puzzles (not a day goes by that we don't do at least 3 of her 25 piece puzzles)
• making and playing with a pretend campfire and roasting pretend marshmallows :) (Bear doesn't even know what a real marshmallow is, but one of her picture books shows two sisters roasting them so she wanted some marshmallows to go with her campfire.) Her campfire was inspired by a post at Filth Wizardry.
  

Two things I really wanted to do but didn't get to:

• pompom icecream count
• magic lines art