G for Gorilla

Tot School- Cowboy is currently 41.5 Months Old

This weeks Trays:

Trays and books:(Scroll to bottom for list of tools used and where to purchase)

Color Gorillas worksheet

Vocab cards (farm theme)

ABC Ladybug puzzles

Letter G Maze and Dot paint

Number Train Puzzle

Fisher Price Learning Pig

Pop the Pig

Stacking tool

Dry Erase Center

Alphatales Letter G
My "g" book

Chart time: Going over letter of of the week, shapes and numbers. 

Going over our vocabulary pictures. The pictures revolved around Goat and were farm themed. 

We Started off by reading our Alphatales Book Gg Gorilla, Be Good!

Traced the letter Gg using Crayola Dry Erase Center. 

I love these Letter Mazes from 1+1+1=1! They are so awesome. You don't have to use just dot paint. You could use pom poms, stickers, colors, magnets, etc! 

I have taken a break from Calendar Time until Lou starts school which will be soon! In the meantime, we still do our animal discussion page, and our tot notebook :) Here is Cowboy answering his questions about the picture of the Gorillas. 

This weeks hit, I would have to say, for sure, was Pop the Pig. 

Wow, I thought this game was so corny when I first got it. Cowboy LOVES this game. His reaction the first time the pig popped was priceless! He was kind of worried and scared at first but then started cracking up laughing! This is the play by play as he popped. 

It teaches, (besides don't eat too much!) colors, numbers and has a little bit of sensory thrown in the mix. As the belly gets bigger and bigger it starts to feel like someone were blowing up a balloon, also it takes a bit of muscle to push on the pigs head :) Cowboy asked for this game everyday this week, and so yes.. I am POPPED out! I am glad he liked it so much! 

Counting and colors with Little Pig....

Doing each one of the stacker pegs on his own.

Number Train Puzzle, I called out a number and he would point to the correct number if he knew which one it was.

This week he wanted to paint his letter craft so I picked out yellow (gold for G!!) he painted it, after it dried he glued on the Gorillas. 

Lou came to school one day to work on a play she is writing, and relieved me of my pop the pig duty! 

Tiny Tot: Butter Currently 15 months old

Butter came out one day this week and played with the money pig. This is the perfect toy for him right now because its teaching him how things work. How to put things in, take them out, hand eye corrdination, colors, shapes etc. He jumped right on in and knew just what to do! It was so cute watching him think :) 

Butter did the Wooden stackers too.....

I pulled out his busy gears LOVE THIS TOY! He loved trying to pull them off while they were spinning 

Of course we had to take a break from all his hard work to do his favorite activity when hes at school.... SPIN in the BIG chair!! 

Then wrapped up his tiny tot school with some sorting....as you can see he moved around a good bit. His favorite spot was right on top of the tray :) He also tried the tongs.. but only really wanted to eat them! 

I found these star ice cube trays for $0.50 for 2 at Walmart after 4th of July. They worked perfect for sorting.

This tray included a 3 piece goat puzzle, shadow matching, lacing card, and size sequencing cards.

He thought hard about what came 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Instead of using a string this week we tried lacing with Pipecleaners... as you can see, Cowboy was proud of himself for figuring it out!!

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F is for Frog

Tot School-Cowboy is Currently 41 Months old

This weeks Trays

Included on Trays: (see bottom of post for full list of tools used and where to purchase)

F is for Foot with glue and glitter

Plastic Blocks

Dot the Letter F using Dot Paint

Melissa and Doug Lacing Beads
Crayola Dry Erase Center
Boggle Jr.
Melissa and Doug Ladybug Letter Puzzles
Mancala for sorting

This Weeks Chart

I am sure you can tell we have made lots of changes to our school room. We are not done, there is still a lot to be done. We still need to paint and rearrange desks and such but I am one happy momma to have this much done for now! We tore out the bathroom and we now have a lot more room! So thankful that my husband is so amazing when it comes to remodeling and repairing. After the death of my mother in law and not having school for 3 weeks, this week was so hard to find the will and energy to get back into things since we have all been away. But it was time to jump back in! 

Monday:

We started with our Tot Book and talked about our Frog discussion page. He then traced his Letter Ff.

Then we did our chart time which we do everyday. He hands me the shapes as I call them out and then tells me the sound of the letter of the week. Then counts the number line.

Cowboy traced the letter Ff with glue (I helped) and sprinkled with glitter

Then some dot paint....

Used the dry erase center to trace the letter

He played Boggle Jr. and put together some of the words that begin with F

He put together the all of the ladybug letter puzzles

And Lacing with Big Beads

Not sure what he was saying here haha...

Tuesday:

I changed up a few of the trays but we were still trying to get back into routine and so we had school in our PJ's! One of the best parts of homeschooling!! 

Trays I changed:

Felt Rain Forest Set

Letter F craft with zig zag scissors  

Hoppers Game

Letter F Craft- Thought it would be cool to use different scissors to cut out the letter and pieces. 

After we finished we read My f book 

He traced his letter Ff with Dry Erase Center

Then he played with his frogs from the Hoppers game. This game is still a little too advanced for him but he has fun playing with the frogs and putting them on the pegs and making up his own game.

I was so sad when I realized I couldn't find my felt board :( so he just played with the pieces and told me what the animals where. I am still trying to hunt for my BOARD!! 

Wednesday:

We started our water beads! These are so much fun for sensory play! Its so neat to watch them grow from these tiny little beads into squishy balls! Cowboy loved it! 

This is what they looked like right after we put them in. 

While the water beads soaked, he played with his rain forest toob.

I read him Froggy goes to the Doctor

Some sorting using Mancala

Before we went in for the day we took a look at the process of the water beads. They take about 24 hours to completely finish but we could see that they were starting to develop. 

Thursday

Cowboy was so anxious to go out to school to see the water beads. He asked 100 times if they were ready yet. I am surprised he slept that night. So of course the first thing we did was check on them when we went out.

They were Ready!! 

And so was Cowboy!! 

I dumped the rain forest toob into the bin so he could play with the frogs and turtles with the beads. 

Water Bead Play

Cool Insta-Collage of the beads

Friday: 

Tracing lines and shapes in tot book

Coloring frogs