Tot School Circle Week

Archer was 22 Months

We have officially started our Shape Themes in Tot School. I decided to go with circle first. You can see the Shape Themes "Curriculum" post here.

This is what Archer's deak area looked like. The posters are from The Learning Effect. The shelf included a couple Non-Fiction Sight Words books, a Meet the Sight Words book, a blends book and an Amazing Animals Reader. I also had the Wild Animal Babies and Parts of Geometric Solids books I made. His artwork from the week is hanging as well.

Play dough included some cookie and fondant cutters, a polka dot design roller (Lakeshore Learning), and a "spaghetti" extruder.

Using a circle stamp and painting.

Fruit Loop sensory bin. Definitely, not my best sensory bin idea. A little color sorting happened. More snacking did, especially, since he'd never had sugar cereal before.

Coloring some circles. (Free to print here).

Circle tracing, mostly with Mommy's help. (Free to print here). We also did some dot art, I just forgot to get pictures.

Stringing pony beads on pipe cleaners.

Magnetic bingo chips on the light table.

I made circles out of his train tracks.

Playroom shelves include both theme related tot school activities and other toys, usually open ended. The goal is to work on things like fine motor skills, visual spacial skills, math and literacy (and keep him entertained). I have been trying to also include one of our toddler games, to get him more used to playing games with us.

This week's shelves included the game Monkey Around and a pasta drying rack with some painted wooden rings. The left shelves had wild animal baby vocabulary cards, 2D & 3D circle shapes, a paper punch with paper, activity rings, stepping domes and a stacking toy. The right shelves had three part puzzles, a tambourine, a circle puzzle, a velcro block, spools, and basket of vehicles with his oval "road" (from Making Learning Fun).

Pasta drying rack with some wooden rings I painted.

Opaque and translucent circle shapes.

Circle paper punch.

Activity rings got used a LOT this week. He likes hanging them from door knobs.

 

Three part puzzles.

Working on his rainbow puzzle.

Velcro block.

Trying to hold all of the while spools at once. We also practiced stacking them.

Some intense reading.

He's been loving his math app.

Affiliate links used, at no cost to you. Thank you for the support!

Wild Animal Baby Names Printables

A while back I made some vocabulary cards and a printable book for the names of Farm Babies (as well as Little Reader Lessons). Archer seemed to like them so much, that I made a set for wile animal babies.

The vocabulary cards and printable book go through names given to babies of different species of animals. We started with the Little Reader lessons and then moved on to reading the book together and then matching the cards.

Archer can read all of the names, and can match them if I present about half at a time (he tends to get overwhelmed and lose interest if I give him all 12 at once).

Here are a couple sample pages from the reader I made to go with the cards.

You can print the Wild Animal Babies Vocabulary Cards Here

You can print the Wild Animal Babies Early Reader Here

Affiliate links used, at no cost to you. Thank you for your support!

Easter Tot School Activities

Here are some of the Easter related tot school activities we have been doing.

I put Easter books on his shelf and hung some of his artwork.

Painting with funky brushes. I then cut out the paper into egg shapes.

Easter playdough. I had some cookie cutters and then used our design rollers (meant for paint) for textures.

Easter roll and graph activity (free here).

Easter tracing page

Easter Tot School Shelves

This week's shelves contained Where's Bear game on the top, as well as some egg decorations with a cheese container. Shelves on the left had some egg matching cards, Lalabloom, egg sound sorting and a roll and cover game. On the right were vocabulary cards, two part puzzles, a letter sound matching activity, pattern block templates, the Daniel Tiger Trolley game and his vehicles.

Egg matching cards

Lalabloom pieces

Egg sound sorting. I put a bunch of pony beads in half the eggs and taped them closed. Of course, Archer thought throwing the eggs til they cracked and leaked the pony beads was the best part of the activity.

Archer has really been into roll and cover games, so I made him this one. I set it up with some ccolored gems.

Easter Vocabulary Cards. Lately, he's liked matching vocabulary cards in his table top pocket chart.

Puzzles!

Beginning Letter Sounds Activity from Totschooling.net. This was definitely the biggest hit! I didn't get out all the cards at once, but he loved making the letter sounds and finding the right one!

 

Magnetic pattern blocks, a marker board and some pattern cards. He really only had the patience to make the bunny, then he just wanted to make his own patterns. 

We got out the trolley game I made a couple of weeks ago.

Affiliate links used, at no cost to you. Thank you for your support!