Tot School

Bear is 25 months

We mostly do the same thing every week. You can see a lot of what we do by checking out my other tot school posts. This week I am posting Bear's favorites.

Alphabet:

I aim for an alphabet activity each day. Here are two activities she chose this week.

An alphabet matching puzzle. I only have 6 letters per basket, otherwise she gets bored. This took her less than 2 minutes.

We played an alphabet bingo. I downloaded these pages from somewhere. If I got from them from you, please let me know and I will link you.

Numbers:

I also aim for one number activity per day. Here are two from the week.

A homemade board game that we call "To Grandmother's house we go." She is now using a normal die, but needs help counting the dots.

A watermelon counting activity (I also got this idea somewhere and would link it, but I can't remember where I got it. So if it is yours, please let me know.) She chooses a number card and puts the matching number of beans on the watermelon.

Fine Motor:

Bear loves this homemade toy. Five different colored pencils poked into a styrofoam block. The pencils start shortest at the left and get progressively longer to the right. Bear puts the corresponding color beads onto the pencils. The beads go in number sequence. There are 1 blue, 2 purple, 3 orange, 4 green and 5 red. She practices counting as she plays with this.

She made a few necklaces this week as well.

Life Skills:

Bear adores cutting and spreading. She has gotten very good at slicing a banana.

We tried this for the first time at the end of the week. She asked to go back and "play clothesline" all day. She can get the clothespin open very well, but needs my help holding the sock. She didn't get the sock on in the picture below.

I left to go get Baby Boy and when I got back, she'd given up on hanging socks and was practicing putting them on :)

Gross Motor:

Lately her biggest thing is yoga. She asks for the Yoga Kids every day, but since we limit television, I don't let her watch it every day. Instead, we use our yoga cards (photos of poses). There are no photos, because I join in and do yoga too :)

Science:

We did a little unit on the five senses this week. You can see more of that in this post.

Nature:

Bear has a nature table in her room. She collects a lot of dead bugs. We found two new ones today, in fact. Here she's observing a butterfly wing.

And here she is counting her nispero seeds. Nispero is a Costa Rican fruit. It resembles a pear in shape but much smaller, is orange when ripe, and tastes a bit like a sweet and sour apricot. I'll be doing a post on Costa Rican fruits next week.

Art:

Unfortunately we do a lot less art now that baby boy is here. :(

Here she is working on a blue and yellow tissue paper collage to go with the book Little Blue and Little Yellow.

Here she is working on a painting.

That's our week. To find out what others are doing, see Carisa's blog 1+1+1=1