Tot School Trapezoid Activities

Archer was 24 Months

We have been working on Shape Themes in Tot School. You can see the Shape Themes "Curriculum" post here. This week was trapezoid and we also did a Musical Instrument theme.

This is what Archer's desk area looked like. The posters are from The Learning Effect. The shelf included a Non-Fiction Sight Words book, a Meet the Sight Words book, an alphabet book, and a blends reader. I also included a book on sound and a Mathstart book. He wasn't much interested in shape themed art, but wanted to color the M from his coloring book instead.

We used dot magnets on his little easel for his dot art page (Free to print here).

Coloring a trapezoid with chalk.

Tracing trapezoids. I switched to dry erase crayons because they are less messy than the markers (Free to print here).

Music note size sorting and two piece puzzles (From the Musical Instrument Tot Pack)

More tracing work. This he decided to do outside. (From the Musical Instrument Tot Pack)

He was really into this xylophone activity this week. He carried the little pieces around a lot. (From the Musical Instrument Tot Pack)

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.

The white board had some Magna-Tiles made into trapezoids. It also had his Animal Upon Animal Game and some tracing pages. Shelves on the left had a Saxoflute, a letter tracing board, the Spinagain, and some wooden blocks with pattern cards. Shelves on the right had musical eggs, rhyming puzzles, instrument vocabulary cards and toys, a farm magnet toy, a bowling zoo, a xylophone and cars with highway shape (from Making Learning Fun).

Archer just got Animal Upon Animal for his birthday. He doesn't have the patience to play by the rules yet, but he did like stacking the animals.

Playing his Saxoflue

My little guy is obsessed with letters, so this is currently one of his favorite toys! He carries it around the house and even asks to have it when he's playing outside.

This was the first time I got out the pattern cards with our wooden blocks for Archer. He still tends to want to build ON the card, instead of just replicating it. We're working on it.

Lots of stacking going on, too.

Musical Eggs and Toky Toy

Playing with his instrument Toob toys.

Matching instrument vocabulary cards.

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On the Water Vocabulary Cards

I've been trying to make more vocabulary cards for Archer, since he learns them so quickly. Here are some vocabulary cards of things that go on or in the water. You can read about how we use our vocabulary cards and print other cards for free on my Vocabulary Card Page.

 Print On the Water Vocabulary Cards Here

Tot School Octagon Activities

Archer was 24 Months

We have been working on Shape Themes in Tot School. You can see the Shape Themes "Curriculum" post here. This week was octagon and we also did a Taffic Sign theme.

This is what Archer's desk 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, an alphabet book, and a digraph reader. I also included some traffic sign books. His artwork from the week is hanging as well.

This week's play dough included an octagon cookie cutter, some fondant cutters and a school bus cutter.

Coloring some octagons. He used both Do a Dot Markers and regular markers (Free to print here). 

We used stickers to fill in his dot art (Free to print here).

Decorating an octagon with vehicle stamps.

Tracing Pentagons. This week he did it all on his own (although not well) (Free to print here).

More tracing work from my Traffic Sign Tot Pack.

Matching signs to their shapes (free here)

Traffic Sign Shadow Matching (free here)

Pattern matching (free here)

Two piece sign puzzles (free here).

Random coloring. For a kid who doesn't much like coloring, I'll take anything I can get!

Vehicle Water Wow

We tried using the Osmo with Archer a couple of months ago and he just did not understand that what you do on the ground affects the screen. We tried again this week with the Words game and he LOVED it. We had to play a lot! Anything with letters for that guy!

Water table fun.

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.

On the top I had his dry erase tracing work and a Trucks Matching game. Shelves on the left had a shape sequencing puzzle, traffic sign vocabulary cards, a traffic sign puzzle, a shape sorting truck and a car ramp. Shelves on the right had garages with keys, rhyming puzzles, sort and match construction trucks, cars and traffic signs, Way To Play roads and a bin of cars with highway shape (from Making Learning Fun).

Matching trucks.

Stacking the shape sequencing pieces. However he wants to play with it is fine with me.

Traffic Sign vocabulary cards with the worlds most obnoxious toy hamster (free here)

This was an old traffic sign puzzle from when Xander was little. Archer did it many times during the week.

Sometimes I think he is outgrowing this car ramp, but then he always plays with it when I get it out.

Rhyming puzzles (Target Dollar Spot a few years ago).

Sort and Match Construction Truck Set

Cars and traffic signs and Way To Play roads made such a fun combination!

Tractor on a highway shape from Making Learning Fun

Other Ideas for Octagon/Traffic Signs Resources

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