Tot School ~ Letter Kk {part 2}

~Ladybug is currently 26 months old~

See Part 1 of Letter K here!  We took two weeks to complete this unit!

Letter: Kk

Object: Keys

Vocabulary Development Theme: Household Objects

You can find the printables for this unit here on the Tot School Printables webpage.

We had loads of fun with Play Dough this week! She asked for it almost every day! This particular day we used a K cookie cutter and also some tiny keys I had for her! She loved squishing the keys into the dough.

She used her scissors to cut her play dough snakes…

We made the letter Kk…

Then used the key to make impressions into the dough, GREAT fine motor work and she loved this!

Pop Pop joined her for some coloring time, they colored her key cards together…

She then colored all of her shapes by herself…

The BIGGEST and most EXCITING event of the week—GLUE! The girl loves the glue. I taught her how to use white glue with a Qtip and a small cup and she mastered the process almost immediately.

She glued her shapes on as I cut them out and we named them together..

She didn’t want to stop there, so we glued her color cards onto a paper…

She still wasn’t done, so I cut up her numbers for her…

Finally, she finished up by gluing her cutting strip pieces down…

She did ask to glue on several other occasions, it is definitely a new favorite.

I finally decided on a spot to officially hang our pocket chart on the wall and she enjoyed using it for her vocabulary cards and her shadow matching cards…

The Crayola Dry Erase Center is still getting a great workout, as is the lap desk ;-)…

She loves coloring her vocabulary cards too…

Letter Kk printables here!

Fun Books & Toys for this unit here!

Ladybug’s Tot Trays/Learning Toys have a new home!!! I finally decided on what I wanted and how I wanted it set up. I love the drawers for loose toys, but I also loved the trays for the display aspect, so I found a way to do both! You can see how I had things set up for her at the beginning of the week here. In the future I have grand plans of displaying items on the top also, but we didn’t have these shelves put together until the last minute so I was lucky to even have this!

Tweezing pom poms…

She LOVES this, as pom poms seem to be the easiest, while still requiring great concentration and fine motor skills. She did this tray many times.

Ping Pong balls and cups…

This was a simple way to reinforce counting 1 to 1 {saying the number and touching the object}. She can count to 11 easily, but I had only 8 cups so we did 8 with this activity and practiced not counting too fast!

I also gave her a large parmesan cheese container so she could pour the balls back into it when she was done.

She got creative and decided to put 1 Hex Bug in each cup and then shut him in with a ball!

We were sent more toys from Guidecraft to review and are so very thankful! She was VERY challenged by this screw block at the beginning of the week and we spent a lot of time together as she just watched me model. I held her hands gently to show her a few days later and the next day she was ready to try on her own!

It was a really neat progression of skills over a few days and although she still can’t do it perfectly, it is just enough of a challenge for her! I LOVE this toy and can’t wait for Krash to see it to!

This is an OLD toy of mine from my teaching days that I found when I cleaned out the school storage room. I remember it used to have a puzzle base but that was missing. We used it anyway!

ABC puzzle {no clue where I got this one}…

Fishing for ABCs {she LOVES this, we got ours at consignment but it looks like this is the updated version}…

TONS of free drawing this week, this girl loves to draw and color!!!

I didn’t get any action shots of her with our iPad this week, but I thought I would still share the apps she played with most. These are the ones she chose on her own and really enjoyed. Some came from recommendations from readers on my Educational iPad Apps blog post last week – thank you!

Definitely her VERY favorite is Doodle Buddy, with Monkey Preschool Lunchbox getting almost as much play time! She also chose to play Monte-Lingual (1-10) and Wood Puzzle quite a bit also.

The boys are out of town so she has been helping them out by feeding the turtle for them and she LOVES her new job. For those of you who are long time blog readers, this is the same turtle we made a labook about years ago!!!! We had 2 turtles and one died, but this one is “Beach” the tiny turtle pictured in the upper right corner of the lapbook cover-s/he is almost 4 years old now and huge!