This week at Tot School was great, although it was less structured than I'd like, but we're still learning and going with the flow! Since the first half of the week was beautiful, we started our lessons outside and worked on...gross motor - walking, throwing, and aiming... we have some work to do.
reading
sharing - I've realized that this is a concept that's way past a 15 month old's comprehension, and I think sometimes as parents we expect our kids to understand sharing too early. At this age they are so egocentric by nature. Instead of harping on sharing, we're working on waiting our turn and being kind to our friends, which hopefully will be some foundational skills for later when he's developmentally ready to "share".
fine motor and motor planning - buckles (an everyday favorite)
These Learning shoes on little feet... I thought they'd be a hit, but Nathan doesn't quite understand what to do with them yet. We'll keep working on it though as they have some great potential!
Awesome water play - he loved it. While we washed the cars, he played in this bucket pretending to wash too. Mainly he enjoyed putting all kinds of objects in the water and watching what happened.
Tot School with Kristin and Zachary was a big hit too! Kristin planned it this week and had some awesome ideas. She clipped pictures out of magazines and hid them in the Easter eggs. The boys opened the eggs and identified the pictures. Very fun!
The counting and sorting bears were also a hit. Nathan liked to chew on them which was not okay, but we also worked on putting them into containers, colors, and sorting by color. Both boys enjoyed shaking the containers with the bears in them and listening to the noises.
Stacking and nesting
Then, we moved on to objects in containers. The boys shook the containers and learned to take the lids off. This was a great activity because they could look in and see the socks or puppets and identify them and then work on pulling them out and opening the lids and replacing the lids.
Singing Old MacDonald with finger puppets - huge hit!
Nathan loves Kristin!
Finishing up our week we discovered Mr Potato Head - another huge hit... especially his glasses! Great fine motor and body part identification!
Have a great week everyone and think about joining the fun by doing your own Tot School!!!!!
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