Tot School

~Krash is currently 40 months old~

** links to all toys and books are at the bottom of the post

Learning Toys…

Krash was finally interested in these great wooden word puzzles. We have had them for awhile now and I could barely get him to do them, but this day he did one after another and really seemed to enjoy them! I LOVE these because they use lowercase letters, something you rarely find in this type of toy for this age group.
He asked me if he could play with our Monkey Math toy-which wasn’t on his trays, and I got it down for him~I’m flexible like that.
This simple $1 store Cars puzzle is and has been a hit for a long time with both boys. This week they made car ramps out of it, numerous times. They practiced their new word “hypothesis” (thanks Dinosaur Train), as they tried to create different ramps and see if the car would go over them hill they made.
See, different clothes…he played with this a lot!
The cheap-o Oreo shape toys came out and this time he made tall towers.

Alphabet…

We made a Pp this week, for piano, inspired from No Time For Flashcards!After making the Pp, and playing with some P stuff, we of course had to play our piano!

Theme…Monsters!!

I am very flexible when it comes to plans for Tot School. I had an entirely different plan for the week, but Target had cute monster stuff in their dollar section, so I bought a few items and made it monster week at our house! We got out our cute monster books and read them each day and did a different monster activity each day! It was so much fun, we’re extending our monster theme through this next week and I made him a new Tot Book/Pack!!! Stay tuned, I promise to share the files this week!

We created monsters with stickers…
Afterwards, K just wanted to read his book again, how sweet is that? 😉We colored a velvet poster together, this was a fabulous opportunity for Pac Man to learn some life skills. It was a group project and I coached him through accepting his brother’s 3 year old artwork. Krash colored all over Pac Man’s monster and at first Pac was upset but I used it to teach patience, and by the end Pac was extremely encouraging to his little brother and we were proud of our group creation!!!
The HIT was this puzzle. We began by introducing it to K one day as a group activity after reading one day. He was instantly drawn in and did a good job with it…
I added it to his trays and he went back to it every day. He did this puzzle probably at least 20 times. He got so good at it, and I really enjoyed watching his skills progress as he did it again and again. We worked on lots of language development as he worked through it, I was blown away by the end of the week listening to him describe things as he was trying to work it.

Photo Learning Book…Colors!

We completed these colors this week and had a blast!!!

Recess/Life School…

Recess this week was outside mostly with the highlight being our fuzzy friend they boys found one day…

Just in case you think I am engaging my children in meaningful activities all day long, I present you with this amazing shot…
Yup, they’re all watching Baby Newton, learning shapes, while I clean the kitchen. I am so blessed that my 7 yr old still enjoys these movies too ;).

A little roller blading in his boxers ;)…
Daddy and K played guitar together one night and it was the cutest thing. Here K is belting out one of his VBS songs (“You’re Powerful” for anyone who did Crocodile Dock)…

Mommy’s Favorites…

Seriously, how could these not be my favorites.
Melt my heart these 2. Drive me nutso, and melt my heart. Love them.