~Ladybug is currently 25 months old~
Letter: Jj
Object: Jellyfish
Vocabulary Development Theme: Ocean Animals
You can find the printables for this unit here on the Tot School Printables webpage.
Ladybug’s coloring skills have improved dramatically! I am honestly amazed with her fine motor skills. She chose to color a LOT this week!!! She wanted to color her shapes this week, so that’s what we did! I colored some, she colored some-that’s how she likes it!
This purple jellyfish, however, she colored completely on her own.
I cannot believe she did this, neither of my boys colored like this at her age. She spent a good 30 minutes coloring this!
More coloring…
She did want me to color her jellyfish color cards, then I put them in our mini pocket chart for her to point out the color I called out.
We did shadow matching in the pocket chart too…
Counting too…
I have created a new section on my website entitled Montessori Printables, I am posting printables there that are created in a Montessori fashion. I am slowly transferring the Tot School Printables vocabulary cards into Match-Up/Memory Boards like this…
Yes-the whale is in the wrong place ;-), she fixed it!
This week I printed the page with the words and left it whole to use to match onto, she however, just wanted to color the animals!
You can see the Free Montessori Printables I have available, each set has an instruction sheet also to help you with how to use them.
Fun Books & Toys for this unit here!
Since we were having some ocean fun I brought out a few printables from my Nemo Tot Book and my Ocean Tot Book.
She especially enjoyed coloring the ocean animals. We did this over a 2 day period. 
The second day she caught on and was telling me which color she needed next!
I tried to think with an ocean theme for her Tot Trays this week. I gave her “sea anemones” to spoon {a melon baller spoon} into the correct colored cups.
She LOVED this and did it several times this week!
I got out our tiny fish erasers {Oriental Trading} and a paint tray for her to tweeze them into {this particular pair came from a science kit we have, but similar tweezers are here}. She did this a few times, but definitely preferred the spikey balls!
We had a few days of play dough fun. Pressing her letters in…
We even cut play dough snakes this week!
Here she was using the little play dough stamps from our Grasshopper Preschool Prep Kit…
The iPad continues to get a daily workout!! Ladybug LOVES it! Here she was playing Toca Doctor-a BIG favorite with all 3 of my kids!
She has many more favorites, I am working on a post to share educational apps we love!
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She read a LOT this week, struggling a bit with a cat who likes to lay on her books when she reads!
