Tot School

Bear is 27 months old

Language Arts

We finished the Great Alphabet Sort and then pulled out the /s/ drawer (she jsut randomly chose one) to use the items inside to create stories.  Some items included a sun, strawberry, snail, Santa Claus, squirrel...you get the idea.  She would place the item she wanted in the story on a piece of white paper and then tell me what was happening.  I wrote down what she said.  I often asked questions like "what happened next" or "why" to get her to expand.  As she narrated, I would say back what she said in a grammatically correct sentence.  I would write down a sentence that was kind of in the middle.  I would sometimes contribute to plot (I always asked first).  We had a great deal of fun creating our stories.  In fact, we created 4 in a row! If you click on the picture, you can actually read story number 3.

Next we moved on to cutting out items in the Price Smart catalog.  Usually, I tell her a story with the things she cuts out, but this time she will do the telling and I will write down her exact words.  There should be a balance between stories which get edited and stories that are just written as told. 

She has been pointing out letters everywhere and "reading" with her finger in all her books.  

Numbers and Math Concepts

Lots of matching numbers on number lines.

We played market and this time I set prices in terms of numbers of marbles, as opposed to having her recognize different coins.  I made this number line of bubbles for her to place her marble coins when she made a purchase.  It helps her visually.

We practiced patterns as we counted.  Both ABAB and AABAAB patterns.

She stuck snowman stickers to number outlines.  It's similar to the pinprick idea.

We also did this with shapes.

Obviously we were practicing French vocabulary here!

I found cute shapes stickers and got them for her, even though she knows her shapes (even odd ones like trapezoid and parallelogram and crescent etc)

 She sorted them by color and by shape for all of two seconds since this was way too easy and bored her.

Guess I'll be saving the rest of the stickers for her brother for about a year from now! LOL.

Other

We also practiced French vocabulary by playing Lottino.

 

Art

You can see some of our art in this post and this post.

We also went on a few nature walks and played catch and made some Christmas presents.

What others are doing in Tot School.