TOT-School Weeks 25 and 26

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B is 23 months old!
B is finally feeling better!! Boy February was just not his month. We go back to the Dr. for an ear re-check this Friday so hopefully after that we will be on the mend.

The past two weeks we have gotten a little Tot-school done and we have just had a lot of fun.

Last week our Bible story was Martha and Mary and then this week it was Moses. I think we may spend some more time with Moses next week!

We got to enjoy a fresh 5 inches of snow last Tuesday and the boys both loved it. WE had snowball fights, built snowmen and snowbears and just enjoyed nice family time together. We also enjoyed making and eating snow cream!!
The snow







Snow Cream!! YUM!!!


B got to build a Lowebot car from Lowes. He loves to use a hammer and he is actually quite good at hammering in nails.





He got to see Curious George Live. George is one of his favorites so he LOVED this show!!


Last week we read The Mitten by Jan Brett and B made a paper mitten and then laced it and he colored the animals from the story that we printed of janbrett.com. He would help me put the animals in the mitten as we read the story.

B also did a M is for mitten magnet page from making learning fun. He used dot markers to paint his.


We also read The Hat by Jan Brett. He colored a hedgie from the website and then used the scrap box to make a hat for Hedgie to wear. B just loves getting the glue out!!




Trains



Puzzles
B is really getting into puzzles. He has a birthday coming up so I hope he will get a few new ones then.



This past week we celebrated the birthday of Dr. Seuss. We read a ton of great Dr. Seuss books and then we reread many of them. B's favorites were The Cat in the Hat and Put Me in the Zoo. He made a cat in the hat hat to wear and then he painted a paper plate and a hat and created a Cat in the Hat. This ttemplate came from Making learning fun. He also put together a dog from Put Me in the Zoo and used Dot markers to paint the spots and he did a Z is for Zoo Magnet page using dot markers again.








Even though B was not himself last week we did seem to get a lot done over the past two weeks. We have had a lot of fun and we love having daddy hope to play with us in the snow!!

Preschool Week 25

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Last week we did not officially do Preschool. All I can say is that I was just tired and needed a break. The boys were tired too so the week off really did us all a world of good. We did however go see Curious George at our local civic center. That was definately the hit of our week!!!
Curious George






This week we reviewed the letter Mm and worked on the sight words me and my. C is really getting into the sight words and looking for them everytime we read. I made a caterpillar to go on the wall in his room and everytime he learns a new word we add to the caterpillar. He loves reading the words to me each night before he goes to bed.

Our Bible story this week was Mary and Martha. We talked a lot about how Jesus told Martha that Mary was doing the right thing. This led into many discussion on how we should do the right thing especially when those around us are not doing the right thing.

We read the books The Mitten and The Hat by Jan Brett. I printed off the mitten pattern and the animals from the story off of janbrett.com. C took the mitten and laced two of them together then he colored the animals and he uses them to retell the story. He did a very good job with retelling. We also printed off the hedgehog headband from the same site and after reading the story C took our scrap box and made a hat to go on Hedgie.




The Hat




We did do-a-dot markers on M is for Mitten off the Making Learning Fun website. He made an abc pattern on the M on his sheet and then this led to him making an abcd pattern with the do-a-dot painters on a white sheet. He is really begin to get into and understand patterns. C also spend some time tracing capital and lower case M's and writing some on his own.



C got out his alphabet blocks and put them in order a-z using the upper case letters and then he took the lower case ones and matched them to the upper case.




Both boys spent a lot of time this week playing trains and then redesigning the track.


C has a set of Lightning McQueen card and we played war with them. It is the numbers 0-9 so this really helped him with the concepts of more and less. Then he took the card and sorted them by number. He also put them in order from 0-9.



C orked on the sight words me and my this week. He did rainbow writing on the words and then he dictated aentence for me to wtire and he filled in the words that he knew. Then we added the words to his word worm caterpillar in his room.



He did this worksheet from prekinders on the letter s. He colored all the pictures that began with the S sound.


We had made these snowmen snacks several weeks ago but C asked if we could do them again. Luckily I had all the items that we needed in the house. He said this is his favorite snack.


My favorite picture of the week.
C took the hat off of our snowman outside and put it on with some 3-d glasses from a puzzle that he has and just danced around the den for about 45 minutes. OH! What fun he had!!!



We had a lot of fun this week. We hope to celebrate Dr Suess next week and read and do lots of fun Seuss activities.