Learning In Grace: December 2012

Friday, December 28, 2012

Letter P - Tot School Farm Week Pt 2

Tot School- Cowboy is Currently 46 Months Old

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Be Sure to Check out Farm Week Part 1 HERE Letter P

This Weeks Trays:

Included on Trays:
Alpha Tales (Letter P: The Pigs Picnic)
My First Book of Tractors
Barnyard Animals
Jumbo Knob Puzzle
LeapFrog Fridge Farm Magnetic Animal Set
Sesame Street Farm Magnets
Magnetic Farm
Pop the Pig
Pop-Onz Table
Pop-Onz Pop 'n Build Blocks
Choo Choo Training Sticker Coloring Book - A Day on the Farm
Perfection
Moon Dough - Pizza Shop and Playdough Mat
Snorta
Little Chick (Little Animals)
On the Farm (Pop-Up Fun)

Another week of Farming with Cowboy!!! This week we continued to review the Letter P is for Pig and did all things farm!

Here we are talking about tractors and reading the book My First Book of Tractors and then we did Barnyard Animals Jumbo Knob Puzzle and talked about the 3 Animals.

FARM MAGNETS!!!

We have a ton of magnets that are Farm Themed- The first set he is using is the LeapFrog Fridge Farm Magnetic Animal Set . You have to match the Animals or you can mix them up and you get something like a Duck Cow! That always got a laugh!!

We also have the Sesame Street Farm Magnets that is pretty simple and he just liked putting the animals in the Barn and shutting them in and letting Big Bird drive the Tractor!

Next he just kinda played on his own and made his own Farm using the Magnets

He really likes this particular set of Magnets- Magnetic Farm - You get to place the animals wherever and how ever you want. He set them up and then told me a story as he would move them around. I love hearing his ideas and how his imagination just thinks things up as he goes :)

Lou played his favorite game "Pop the Pig " with him. They both really enjoy this game at first I thought it was so silly and had no point but it actually teaches things like, counting, numbers, colors, and using your strength to push that pigs head down!!

These were some neat Vocabulary cards I found HERE. We talked about each word and where it comes from what it gives us etc. Like Cotton, where does it grow? What does it make? What color is it? What does it feel like? ETC.

The next set of cards were so neat! They were eye opening to Cowboy about where things come from and what produces what- Chicken = Eggs = Chicken Meat . After we went over each set he then had to match them up with the correct "Producer and Product" it was a little difficult at first but after going over for a few days he got it!

Yet another Farm Puzzle!

Free play with Pop-Onz Pop 'n Build Blocks and Pop-Onz Table . He made his own mini farm using the blocks. He even made a two blade windmill-

Stickers on the Choo Choo Training Sticker Coloring Book - A Day on the Farm

We played Perfection a few times he really likes this game too. I think between this and Pop the Pig- he likes things that POP up!

We have a game called Snorta - Its a little too advanced for him but has really cool pieces that come with it! All sorts of Farm Animal figures, and each one had their own Barn! I just let him Free play with this and a little people tractor. We counted the barn houses and made different farm animal sounds while he played.

This day he just was itching to Glue- So I poured him some pom poms and tried to get him to make me the letter P - But he wanted to make a Barn... So this week was fun!! I love Farming with Cowboy!! Cant wait to do this theme again soon !

Story Time

We read the book Little Chicks and Pop up Farm Book.

I printed out a playdough mat from HERE called Baby Chicks. I would tell him a number and he would have to make that many baby chicks using moon dough from his Moon Dough - Pizza Shop to put in the pin and then we would do it over again.

Free play with more... POP THE PIG....

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Sunday, December 9, 2012

P- Farm Week- Tot School Part 1

Tot School- Cowboy is Currently 46 months old

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Be Sure To Check out Farm Week Part 2 HERE - Letter P

This weeks Trays

Trays Include:

Alpha Tales (Letter P: The Pigs Picnic)
Pajama Time!
Little Piglet Book This Little Piggy
Old Macdonald: A Hand-Puppet Book
Dry Erase Center
Cuddles the Cow
Little People Farm
Fun on the Farm Magnet Set
Learning Piggy Bank
Farm Puzzle (not exact puzzle but like these)
Foam Magnet Pattern Blocks with Pattern Cards from PreKinders
Little People Tractor
Clothespin wheels and Farm animals from 1+1+1=1 Letter G tot pack
Vintage Tupperware Cups , Measuring Spoons and a mixture of Dry Corn Bean Scoop and Pour practice

I went with a FARM THEME for the next two weeks since we were doing the letter P for Pig, and since both weeks wouldnt be full for us its a perfect time. Also perfect because I have a TON of farm themed things and I have been so excited to finally get to do it.

Tracing Letter P using Dry Erase Center and going over P is for Pig Discussion Page in his Tot Book.

I put all his Letter P worksheets in his Tot Book for easy access this week. He had been missing it and I was happy to be organized.

Putting together a farm puzzle with different types of farm animals. We talked about what their names were and what they did on the farm.

Cowboy LOVED being able to play with his Little People Farm and Little People Tractor especially knowing it would be out and part of his school work for 2 weeks!

We read - Alpha Tales (Letter P: The Pigs Picnic)

One of my FAVORITE things we did together this week was read Old McDonald had a Farm using Old Macdonald: A Hand-Puppet Book . We made different versions of it and voices with each animal. I need more puppets..

I loved seeing him LIGHT up and LAUGH while we learned =] It was truly priceless and yet another fond memory to add to my collection.

He played FARM using Fun on the Farm Magnet Set.

Another fun thing to watch him do this week was Feed the Pigs which helped him with scooping and pouring... I filled up a tin bucket with some dried corn and bean mix that I had from our Fall Sensory Bin. Gave him some measuring spoons, cups and mini pigs. I also took some of the number off of our Chart 1-5 and had him pick a number. Which ever number he picked, he had to scoop and fill the cup that many times. After he went through all the numbers he played and explored on his own.

I found some Farm Animal Pattern Cards to go with his Foam Shape Magnets on Pre-Kinders website. I printed them out and he put them together.

I used Vocabulary Cards from Letter G is for Goat pack from 1+1+1=1 since it was all farm related words. Each day we went over them as a vocabulary lesson.

These are Clip and Learn Clothespin Wheels, you can find HERE. I wrote different letters on Clothespins with a marker and he had to pick the correct letter for the farm item and Clip it to the wheel. For instance, in this picture he is clipping Letter Pp to the Pig.

Reading the Letter P story Lou made for him and finding all the Letter P words in the Picture.

Three Little Pigs Puzzle. I told him the story as he put the puzzle together. Then we dumped it again and then he retold the story to me.

Melissa & Doug Barn Buddies - Layered Wood Puzzle I like this puzzle because its layered and a bit different from other puzzles. Certain pieces have to overlap each other for them to to fit.

Letter P craft. We whipped up a batch of pink Snow Paint which he loves using, then painted the letter then glued on the pigs.

Since the shaving cream was already out from making the snow paint, we decided the little pigs needed a shaving cream BATH!! He used his little tractor to plow through!

Of course Buzz Lightyear was jealous and wanted a bath, and Lou couldnt resist jumping in on the fun as well !!

Learning about Horses! Using Horse Groovy Tube Book . It has each type of Horse and Tells you all about them :) Then we matched them up Next to their Descriptions.