Groundhog Day and Cold Lady Eating Snow Tot School

Tot School Extras With Cowboy

Currently 43  Months Old

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I don't usually post about EXTRA Book activities and such, I always plan to, but time is usually hard to come by ! So Here is just a little bit of extras outside of Just Animal ABCS :) 

We learned and talked about Winter! A perfect book to go along with Winter is There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow! by Lucille Colandro- I totally recommend this fun book to read regardless of theme, it is a funny book! Cowboy really enjoyed it. I found a tot pack to go along with it from 3Dinosaurs blog :P This Mom has some great tot packs and usually they can be used along with a great book. 

We Read and Sang the book, There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow! on the iPad via Kindle App because my Library did not have this Book :( 

 I cut out and Laminated some of the Matching Cards included with the Tot Pack, and put Velcro Dots on the backs to use with our Felt Board. So as we went through the Story Cowboy Placed the items the Cold Lady swallowed, onto the Board.

After we read the book we talked about each one the items as a vocabulary lesson. 

He wanted to Dot Paint the Light Bulb from the Story. 

There are some GREAT question sheets included, and I asked him the questions and wrote down his answers as he gave them to me.... These 2 were my favorite answers! I love asking him these kinds of questions because it is SO FUNNY to see what their answer is going to be. 

GROUNDHOGS

Do we get excited about Groundhog day? Um.. No.... Do we think a groundhog can actually tell by his shadow if its going to be a longer winter or early Spring? No... But are Groundhogs cute and is it fun watching and learning about Hibernation and little Groundhogs on YouTube? YES! I found these Groundhog Printables on 2teachingmommies site. 

I pulled up a few Videos on Hibernation, and Groundhogs and we watched them (TOO CUTE)

He used Banana Grams to match the letters for the word Groundhog

Size sequencing Big to Small... Small to Big

 We also reviewed the Upper and Lowercase Letter G as he sorted them 

The Same day we received our long awaited, (at least for me) Alphabet Soup Sorters!! I pulled out Letter R and S for him to explore with and review since those were the last two letters that we covered. Cowboy liked them, although he was really wanting them to be filled with cookies! I also love these and recommend them to use as a teaching tool! They each come with Hard Cards inside each can with objects that start with the letter your working on and then you flip them over and the word is on the back! They are very helpful for teaching letter sounds too! 

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Book Review: Bringing up Boys

I love to read, but I slack in that area because I hardly have enough time to do so, unless I need help with something, I make time to research and learn. Well like I said last week we had an off week, and I found myself with a little extra time. I have been dealing with an issue that I just needed help with. That issue is BOYS! Mainly, for now, and I am sure will change as Butter gets a little older, but Cowboy is definately all BOY and strong willed to say the least. Lou, obviously a girl, was very easy growing up and listened and obeyed very well. She has never given me problems when it comes to discipling other than very minor things. With that being said, I had not a clue how different a little guy would be. I thought honestly it was all in the way the parents raised them, which is right, but you deal with boys in a totally different way. I wish I could say Cowboy was as easy as Lou was. He sometimes likes to test me to the very brink of losing it! I had noticed I was becoming a yeller. Something I am not very proud of. I was losing all self control because I had no idea how to deal with someone so hard headed. So I sought out help mainly for myself to help me stop yelling so much and get some peace so that I could be a better mother and influence for my kids. No one wants to hear nagging and yelling all day! Nor, did I want to keep feeling so gulity for my kids seeing a part of me I was not proud of. That was in no way the kind of influence or character trait I wanted to be imparting into my kids. So I looked through different sites online, and one day I came across a book titled Bringing up Boys by Dr. James Dobson the founder of Focus on the Family. So I checked it out at the library. I came home that day and started reading it.

I can honestly say, it was so Eye Opening. I couldnt put it down. I read it all in a day in a half and it is not a little book. I guess that shows how starved I was for answers. I learned so many things not only about what makes Cowboy tick, but my husband as well. Boys are so different than girls and I always knew that but I didnt know why specifically, other than obvious reasons. I would totally recomend this book not only to mothers or grandmothers of Boys, but to wives as well  just for insight on what makes or has made their husband the way they are. It would offer up starting points for healing in marriages. Even If their marriage is great and without issue, it is so interesting to know what makes him, him and how his mind really works, not to say that it totally gives all answers, but it helps a lot! The following is the table of contents for the book. If you read it, I hope it helps you like it has and is helping me :)