tot school

Nathan is 24.5 months old

This was our best week of tot school in a while! Chad was gone out of town all week and I thought I was going to lose my mind!!! Thankfully planning and doing tot school activities with Nathan was quite therapeutic! Here's a quick overview of our week...

Music time: Nathan asked often for music and instruments - probably because his piano, trumpet, guitar partner was out of town!

We decorated the front door with some window clings.

Gluing pompoms on pictures was so much fun. I put down the glue and handed him the pompoms and he put them in the right spot. He LOVED this!

So proud of his pictures!!!

Craft time! Painting reindeer handprints was a blast... and I found a new use for Glad Press and Seal! It makes a great paint barrier!

Cork painting! I can't remember where I found this activity, but let me know if it was from you and I'll link you up. Nathan LOVED this too!

Sorting these hearts by color. This was way too easy for him and he quickly grew bored and just started putting them in the wrong holes and saying, "does that go there??? noooooo. silly nathan."

Letter C!

He loves to put the stickers on the finished project. He's so cute when he says, "apple starts with a and airplane starts with a. mommy ball starts with b and balloon starts with b. Mommy, cow starts with c and chicken starts with c and caterpillar..."

Thank you Amber for the inspiration to go ahead and start 12 piece puzzles with Nathan. He is a pro at them already. I was amazed as I watched him do it. He still doesn't understand edge and corner pieces, but he just creates the picture piece by piece. He is HUGE puzzle fan!

Stacking, building, and nesting

Fine Motor:

Who would have thought that hanging ornaments on a tots tree would be tot school? Check out that fine motor work!!!

Life Skills:

We had a fabulous week! If you have a tot and aren't doing tot school... PLEASE consider it! It's so much fun! Check out these other moms who blog about their tot schools!!!

tot school

Nathan is 24 months (2 years) TODAY!!!

We had another great week of tot school last week! We'll take a break this week for Thanksgiving and baby Piper's birth, but we'll be back the week after! Check out what we've been learning this week!

I found a mini connect 4 game and Nathan loves putting the checkers in the slots. Great fine motor, taking turns, color sorting, patience... the list goes on! Also I noticed in many of these pictures, including the connect 4 pics, that he is using both his left and right hands... interesting!

Bottle top spelling. He loves this now that the lids are magnetic!!!

Beginning patterns with pompoms... He wasn't sure about the blank circle at the end.

We've got some work to do on the concepts of patterns... any suggestions from other moms? He's just matching the colors but doesn't understand the "what comes next?" concept.

Home-made do a dot pictures, but first with pompoms!

Plucking grapes has turned into a favorite!!!

Puzzle time. I thought these would be challenging for him, but I was wrong. My friend Amber gave me some ideas for 12-24 piece puzzles so we'll try those!

We started the alphabet this week! Nathan really enjoys painting and loved painting his letter A.

Coloring some wooden figures.

This week I started some pre-writing by asking Nathan to use the correct matching crayon to connect the red dots, or blue dots, etc from top to bottom.

Do a Dot pictures... he loves these!!!

Open ended play with balls and the bilibo... so much fun to watch him explore gravity!

Building with magnetos

This week's group tot school was so much fun! We made "thankful trees" and I LOVED listening to all the things the kids were thankful for!!! Nathan did a great job gluing his leaves down too!

gluing and color matching and shape identification

Do a Dot turkeys as well as color id.

Fabulous floam!!!

We had so much fun!!! Join us and link up your post with lots of other moms! Check out this link to link up!