Tot School ~ Letter Ss

~Ladybug is currently 29.5 months old~

Letter: Ss

Object: Star

Vocabulary Development Theme: Outer Space

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

Here’s a peek at some of the Letter Ss activities she wanted to do {and I managed to snap photos of}.

After dot painting, she chose to draw, a daily activity for her now. She has been making little jellyfish-looking people lately!

She wanted me to cut out her S pictures so she could glue them on her paper. After she did this, she colored every single thing!

My girl can write an S better than her brothers! Ha ha! Her fine motor skills never cease to AMAZE me, neither boy ever did anything like this!

Tracing like a pro!

Here she was coloring her stars and also telling me “no picher” I take her picture anyway, mostly because I love these faces!

Letter Ss printables here!

Fun Books & Toys for this unit here!

I didn’t expand her theme onto shelves this week, I needed a theme break. I did pull out a few apple things, but that’s it!

On her shelves…

top left {basket}…wooden alphabet blocks
top right…Wooden Noah’s Ark
top left shelf…Apple Songs {her apple books were up on another shelf too}
top middle shelf…Magnet School {just 4 cards and 4 matching letters were out}
top right shelf…Four in One Shape Sorter
bottom left…pick up sticks into empty cleaning wipes container
bottom middle…Fisher Price Barnyard Bingo
bottom right…”Picking” Apples, {small/medium tongs, spikey red/green balls in an apple tin{Target} into an empty Happy Babies frozen cube food tray}

We have a second set of shelves that I rotate toys onto for school time. Usually these toys are more geared towards the boys, but sometimes they overlap, like this week. All three kids are free to go and use these toys/materials during school and free time. When my tots were smaller, I would put certain “Tot School” toys up and out of sight when it wasn’t school time, but now they can all handle it and like having access. So, for now it works for us this way!

top left…Guidecraft Animal Train
top right…Guidecraft Nesting Cylinders
top left drawer…Counting Bears, and Stacking Cups
top middle drawer…Connect Four pieces
top right shelf…marbles {for the marble track}
bottom left drawer…Guidecraft Locking Ladders
bottom middle…Connect Four
bottom right drawer…Frigits Marble Track {magnetic dry erase board is off to the side}

Most played with toy of the week…

The girl LOVED the animal train set. It came out every day and she just loved it. We matched up the cards a few times together but mostly she enjoyed playing with them on her own, both on the floor and on the magnetic board it comes with.

The following toys were also chosen a lot this week, just not quite as much as the animal train!

I love this toy, and it was given to us so long ago!

Poking pick up sticks into and empty cleaning wipes container…

Wooden Noah’s Ark…

Foam blocks {another daily favorite}

“Picking” Apples ~ in the photo she is using mini tongs I got at a kitchen store in an outlet mall, but we do have these too.

Nesting Cylinders…

Sorting bears into colored cups…

Matching letters…

Ladybug still loves the iPad, I just usually forget to share what she’s been up to on it! I did snap a photo this week, which has reminded me to share her recent favorites! In this photo she is playing one of her very favorites, Tozzle. She has also spent lots of time playing Monkey Preschool.

Mostly this week, she colored Name pages, just printed from a Google search of Nemo Coloring. I think I counted at least 9 total. On one near the end of the week, she “wrote” her name. I was sitting and working while she was coloring and I heard her saying the letters in her name out loud and I glanced over and she was writing letters that looked similar to the letters in her name! I was shocked!