Tot School Hexagon Activities

Archer was 23 Months

We have been working on Shape Themes in Tot School. You can see the Shape Themes "Curriculum" post here.

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, a blend reader and a Animal Antics Reader. I also included a Mathstart Book and some books about bees. His artwork from the week is hanging as well.

This week included some fondant cutters, a hexagon stamp.

Coloring some hexagons. We started off with crayons but ended up swapping to markers (Free to print here). 

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

Tracing hexagons. This is still done with Mommy (Free to print here).

Shape sorting on the ipad.

Matching vehicles and occupations (from Totschooling.net)

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-tile hexagons (from this set) and some magnetic pattern blocks. The top also had some hexagon facts and the Honey Bee Tree game. Shelves on the left had some wooden beads and string, magnetic pattern blocks, honeycomb matching, a shape sorter, two part puzzles, magnetic gears, a chunky puzzle, a bee dot magnet page, safari bowling and cars with highway shape (from Making Learning Fun).

I used the beads from his sequencing set and some string. He was good at putting the string in the beads, but not pulling it through on his own.

I originally tried getting out regular pattern blocks, but he really wanted them to stick to the white board. Once I got out the magnetic ones, he played with them a lot.

Honeycome matching. Not one of his favorites. He did about three before moving on to more important things.

Shape sorting

Alphabet puzzles (this is about 1/3 of them)

Magnetic gears. Always more fun on the dishwasher when Mommy is trying to cook on the counter above him.

Bee dot magnet page with some pom poms glued to magnets. This was the first time I got out this kind of activity for him, but he liked it. He got it out on his own several times during the week.

Safari bowling. This was a huge hit this week (with both boys)! Archer is pretty bad at aiming with the elephant ramp, but excellent and running over and knocking down all the targets (and laughing hysterically afterwards).

Cars on the hexagon (from Making Learning Fun).

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Tot School Triangle Activities

Archer was 23 Months

We have been working on Shape Themes in Tot School. You can see the Shape Themes "Curriculum" post here.

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, a digraph book and a couple Animal Antics Readers. I also included a Mathstart Book. His artwork from the week is hanging as well.

This week included some fondant cutters, a triangle stamp and a texture block from a dough set we have.

Coloring some triangles. Well, that was my plan. Archer had other plans, so we didn't. (Free to print here). 

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

Tracing triangles. (Free to print here).

Coloring and painting triangles.

I made him a sensory bin with some black beans, the flower toob and watering can. He insisted I add letters to it.

Reading in the crib. Muddle and Match Books are current favorites.

Learning about different kinds of triangles on Your Child Can Discover.

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-tile triangles. The top had some opaque and translucent triangle-related shapes.

Shelves on the left had alphabet matching puzzles, gardening vocabulary cards, a safari animal sorting truck and Whac-a-Mole game. Shelves on the right had toddler magnets, Duplos and pattern cards (from All Our Days), sequencing puzzle, a golf tee game with balls, sequencing beads and cars with highway shape (from Making Learning Fun).

Alphabet matching puzzles

Gardening vocabulary cards in a pocket chart.

Duplos and pattern cards (from All Our Days)

A golf tee game with some little wooden balls. He spent a lot of time putting the tees in and out of the board.

Playing with his sequencing beads. He does not actually follow the template cards yet, but he does like putting the beads on the posts.

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Birthday Present Beginning Sound Match

Archer's birthday is coming up next week, and my little guy is OBSESSED with letters. He sings the alphabet song (traditional or Super Why version) or the letter sound song from Letter Factory ALL DAY LONG. Sometimes he wakes up in the night and sings about letter sounds.

I was looking for some fun birthday activities for tot school next week and came up with these Birthday Beginning Sound Presents. 

Each present has a word starting with a different letter. For a while, I will probably only get out about a third of the cards at a time. He has trouble matching things if there are too many choices at once, plus his arms would be too short to reach.

Print the Birthday Present Beginning Sound Match HERE

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Reading Caught on Camera

A couple of weeks ago, my mom asked for a video of Archer reading. While he can read a lot of words and often reads sentences/pages of books with us, it isn't always easy to catch on camera. Here is what we ended up getting. Warning, my nine year old was the cameraman.

He is reading Just One More by Jennifer Hansen Rolli. It is definitely not the most challenging book for him, but he loves it, it has big, easy to read font and not too many words per page (he tends to skip down lines in there are too many lines in a paragraph).

Tot School Square Activities

Archer was 23 Months

We have been working on Shape Themes in Tot School. You can see the Shape Themes "Curriculum" post here.

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, a blends book and a couple Animal Antics Readers. I also included a Mathstart Book. His artwork from the week is hanging as well.

Making new play dough. This week included some fondant cutters, a square stamp and a texture block from a dough set we have. I just forgot to get a picture of the finished product.

Coloring some squares. (Free to print here). 

Using a square stamp to decorate a rectangle.

This week, we used stickers to fill in his dot art (Free to print here).

Tracing squares. (Free to print here).

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-tile squares. The top had some opaque and translucent square-related shapes.

Shelves on the left had flower vocabulary cards and a flower toob, unifix cubes and pattern cards, cars and garages and a pop up toy. Shelves on the right had alphabet puzzles, Qwirkle matching, a chunky puzzle, Wedgnetix, Candy Land .

Flower vocabulary cards and a flower toob. Archer prefers matching the words and pictures on a pocket chart, though.

Unifix cubes and pattern cards.

My little letter-obsessed guy really enjoyed the alphabet puzzles.

Qwirkle matching

Wedgnetix

Candy Land

I forgot to put this tray out til the last day, so it will get repeated next week. Duplos and pattern cards (from All Our Days)

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