Tot School ~ Letter Ll

~Ladybug is currently 26.5 months old~

Letter: Ll

Object: Leaf

Vocabulary Development Theme: Nature

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

I set many of her Ll activities up in our pocket chart so she could easily see the options and show me what she would like to do. She chose coloring her vocabulary cards in her dry erase board first…

Shadow matching…

I love her hard at work…

Dot Painting Ll’s…

We got out the cookie sheet for some magnet work…

She had the most fun lining up the pom poms on the side!

She chose to dot paint her color cards this week…

She also spent lots of time screwing the caps on and off…

Cutting her Nature Cutting Strip…

Coloring her Ll pictures…

Gluing her numbers in order…

Stamping Ll’s on her leaf…

Letter Ll printables here!

Fun Books & Toys for this unit here!

I am hoping to snap a photo of the set up each week so you can see all that was displayed for her to choose from. This week I didn’t actually set her shelves up until mid-week so we will leave these up throughout next week too! All of the kids love this new setup and the simple display of the toys is such a way to draw them in!

This week I got out red/white/blue toys as well as some USA items.

• top left: USA book from $1 section Target
• Bucket of red/blue foam mini shapes {$1 section at Target last year}
• USA States & Capitals Learning Wrap {obviously not for Ladybug ;-)}
• Red and Blue Rainbow Blocks
• top left shelf: 4th of July book
• top middle shelf: Red and Blue Skyscraper Building Pieces and board
• top right shelf: USA puzzle {Dollar Tree}
• bottom left: 6 shapes and disks from Guidecraft Feel and Find
• bottom middle: tongs and red/white/blue pom poms
• bottom right: Styrofoam bock and red/blue pick up sticks to poke into it

Ladybug was immediately drawn to the foam block and sticks. I modeled for her how to poke them in and she went to work.

After she got them all in I showed her that she could drop the red and blue pieces onto the sticks and she LOVED this. You can see Krash off to the right, he loved it all too!

Tongs {these are from an old bug play set from Target years ago} and pom poms…

Dot Paint tops were a huge hit this week. She stacked, knocked and restacked these many times!!

I made a new batch of play dough and it got played with a lot!

Making our letter in our sparkly red dough…

Rolling with our roller from the Grasshopper Kit…

I got out the 4th of July Sensory Bin on July 1 and the kids dove right in.

Ladybug especially liked spooning the rice…

She also loved the fireworks straws!!!

Our iPad got its normal workout this week, with Ladybug and the boys playing tons of games featured in my Educational iPad Apps blog post!

This week Ladybug spent most of her time playing Toca Tea Party, Monkey Preschool Lunchbox, Monte-Lingual (1-10), Wood Puzzle and Starfall.

Ladybug was the only child for over 2 weeks with the boys down south visiting grandparents. She had a real awakening when they returned and she suddenly had to share again. These snakes {my mom makes them for the kids} were a hot item and she claimed them all while the boys were away. You can see her protective nature as she was trying to show the boys they were indeed- all hers.

We convinced her shortly after that she had to share and then it became a game of piling them on Pac Man…

She really seemed happy to have her guys back, it was cute!!