Social Distancing Homeschool Schedule

Xander has been on "spring break," so we haven't bothered with a schedule. However, tomorrow is when he should have gone back to school, so here is the schedule he and I came up with together. I tried to balance having a schedule and some academic time, while also having it be relaxed and full of choices.

Also, Xader is a kid who would read all day long if I let him, but mostly books he already knows he likes. I made all the reading during the "school day" either nonfiction or a book he hasn't read yet, knowing full well that he will still spend his lunch break or evenings rereading favorites.

Printable Daniel Tiger Trolley Game

Lately, Archer has become a bit obsessed with Daniel Tiger. We watch the show, we listen to the songs, we read the books. I decided to try to use that interest to come up with activities for him and this quick game was the first thing to come out of it.

I made two version of the game, one for matching shapes and one for counting. To play, your little one picks a friend and then rolls the die. Then they try to find the trolley that that matches what’s on the die and put their friend on it. The star means they can pick any trolley. Keep going until all the of the neighborhood friends are on a trolley.

The neighborhood friends are printable, as are the dice. However, we will probably also occasionally with our Daniel Tiger figurines. Since Archer tends to be a little rough with things, I also made the dice out of wooden blocks and a Sharpie.

 

You can print the Daniel Tiger Trolley Game Here

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St. Patrick's Day Tot School Activities

Here are the activities we did for St. Patrick's Day Tot School Week. Archer was 21 months old.

His shelf had some St. Patrick's Day books. I hung up his artwork for the week.

For some cutting practice, I gave him some green strips of paper and let him use his training scissors. He still definitely needs help, but it getting better! Then we used a glue stick to glue the pieces onto a cardstock shamrock.

I made some bright green playdough and gave him his shamrock cookie cutter. He requested his shape cutters as well.

Easy sensory bin with some green lentils, mini cauldrons (Oriental Trading) and gold coins (craft store). I hid the coins under the beans and he had fun finding them.

Shamrock pattern matching. You can print yours free here. There is also a tracing page attached to it.

Archer isn't really ready to trace yet, but I let him color on this page from my St Patrick's Day Pack (free to print)

Tot School shelves for the week. The top of the had his wooden rainbow and the Honey Bee Tree game. The shelves had an egg carton color matching activity, his geometric solids, some garages and keys, a shape sorter, two part puzzles, a roll and cover game, crystal builders, pattern blocks, a latch board and his vehicles. 

Saying "no beees!" while playing Honey Bee Tree

I used some painted wooden balls and then painted the other side of the egg carton with corresponding colors. Archer really enjoyed putting the balls in the correct places, and got it down frequently. Sometimes, we would put all the balls in the wrong spots and he would fix them.

Geometric solids were a big hit. He would line them up, stack them and carry them around.

I found this cute Roll and Cover printable from Totschooling. Archer really enjoyed it, although, he often set the die down on the number he wanted rather than actually rolling it.

2 part puzzles

Crystal climbers.

Pattern blocks.

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Multicolored Tot School Week

Archer is 21 months

Archer was very sick during this week, so I did not get very many action shots. We also did much less structured activity than normal. I kind of just went with what he felt up to doing.

In August I posted our Color Themes Goals. Those are what I had in mind while we started Tot School this week, not actually learning the color.

His little shelf had a few books.  I got out two of his Non-Fiction Sight Words books and one of his Meet the Phonics books.  I also hung up some of his "artwork."

Multicolored 3 Part Cards

Playroom shelves this week.  The goal of the toys is to entertain him and give him some fine motor practice.  Things like building, sorting and puzzles also provide some spacial awareness (math and even physics). 

On top of the shelf we had his Trucks Color Matchup game. Then I had some domino pattern cards, a wooden peg puzzle and his sorting food. On the right were his felt shapes with a giant die, his gears caterpillar, two part puzzles, wooden rainbow, a button snake, some colored rings and balance pods, and his basket of vehicles.

This kid loves all things trucks! Here he is playing the Trucks Color MatchUp Game with Daddy.

Pattern cards with wooden dominoes.You can print the pattern cards here.

Hanging out in a big mess and playing with his sorting food.

 
Playing his color/shapes gross motor game (DIY template here)

Gear caterpillar (upside down, oops)

2 Part Puzzles with colors

Wooden rainbow

Button snake with yellow shapes

Balance pods and colored rings for gross motor play.

With Archer being sick, we did way more screen time than normal. This Math 3-5 game was a big hit.

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Shapes Dot Outlines

As I'm gearing up to do shape themes for Tot School, I've been working on some materials to use with Archer.  I couldn't find a set of Dot Outlines that had all the shapes I wanted, so I ended up making one. I plan on using magnets or Do a Dot markers with these.

You can print the Shape Dot Outlines Here.


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Black and White Tot School Activities

Archer is 21 months

In August I posted our Color Themes Goals. Those are what I had in mind while we started Tot School this week, not actually learning the color.

His little shelf had a few books.  I got out two of his Non-Fiction Sight Words books, two of his Meet the Sight Words readers and two of his Meet the Phonics books (he likes those better than story books at the moment).  The poster was free from Isla Hearts Teaching on TPT. I also hung up some of his "artwork."

White foods word cards (free here). He read all the words and pointed to the pictures, but wanted me to actually place the cards together.

Playdough this week had white dough, some dice, some large googly eyes and a textured roller.

I threw together a quick sensory bin with white rice and black beans. We put some of his black and white animals in for fun. He asked for it several times.

Stamping. I gave him a washable black ink pad and his shapes stamps.

Chalk and white paint on black paper.

Playroom shelves this week.  The goal of the toys is to entertain him and give him some fine motor practice.  Things like building, sorting and puzzles also provide some spacial awareness (math and even physics). 

On top was Frankie's Food Truck Fiasco. The shelves had some black and white animals to sort, a unifix pattern activity, colored cars and garages, blocks from Pattern Play, 2-part puzzles, a wooden peg puzzle, black and white animal figurines, Magnaflex, a lacing cow and his basket of vehicles.

Frankie's Food Truck Fiasco. We still don't play by the rules, but he really enjoys finding the shapes for each "table."

Big and Little animal sorting. 

Unifix cube patterns.

Blocks from Pattern Play

 

2 Part Puzzles 

Black and white animals. Mostly from Toobs, but some bigger ones as well.

Magnaflex 

Lacing cow

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