Tot School ~ Letter Uu and Monsters

~Ladybug is currently 30 months old~

Letter: Uu

Object: Umbrella

Vocabulary Development Theme: Weather

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

We didn’t expand the theme this week since we had a Monster theme instead! Here’s a peek at some of the Letter Uu activities she wanted to do {and I managed to snap photos of}.

Dot painting her letters,

Tracing and coloring…

Her finished colored umbrellas…

Coloring weather words in her dry erase center…

Making shapes with magnetic pom poms on her cookie sheet…

Letter Uu printables here!

Fun Books & Toys for this unit here!

Her shelves were mostly MONSTER themed, with a few random items!

On her shelves… 

• top shelf…Monster Sensory Bin and Monster Books
• top left shelf…Make a Monster with Stickers {stickers are from old balloon kits}
• top middle shelf…Mini Monster Notebooks and pencils
• top right shelf…Monster Puzzle {Target $1 last year}
• bottom left…Ping Pong Balls, tongs transfer
• bottom middle…Pouring beads
• bottom right…Mini pipe cleaners into tiny holes {not even sure what the white thing is, some sort of kitchen straining item}

She loves pouring.  The pitcher is from Ikea, she’s pouring random beads into a silver tin.

Using her tongs to transfer ping pong balls into a paint tray…

Poking thin pipe cleaners into a kitchen strainer thing…

She played a lot with the nesting blocks as you can see from her outfits below! 

She finally mastered stacking them all in order on her own!  Very proud girl!

Stacking pegs came out a lot too…

A little Connect Four, played toddler style {no rules}…

Using tongs to transfer porcupine balls to mini tubes {form our Monster bin}.

Building with the tubes…

Wedgits are still a favorite too…

We had a fun monster week around here!  Our Create-A-Monster Sensory Bin was a BIG hit with Ladybug!  She made MANY monsters and came up with some really cute creations

We pulled out our Monster Tot Pack {I LOVE being able to just pull folders out of things I already printed for Krash in the past!}.  She matched monsters to their shapes in our mini pocket chart…

Matching dot colors, this was a bit challenging for her!

We sang a silly little song about which shape was on top of the monster’s head.

Ordering monsters by size…

She enjoyed dot painting monsters, both from Our Little Monkeys and 2 Teaching Mommies.

She also used them for cutting practice!

She loved matching the monsters.  I made this for Krash years ago.  Just took a pack of stickers and stuck one set down and laminated the cut up other set for matching.

I also had left over monster making sets from K’s monster theme so she made one too.  The one on the top was made by Krash  years ago!

We used many left over balloon face sticker sheets we had to create monsters together.  This was a favorite of L-bug this week!

We have a monster puzzle that Krash used for his monster week when he was a tot, she worked on it with me a few times!

Her favorite of the week was by far coloring Boo.  She watched Monster’s Inc. with us at the beginning of the week and fell in love with Boo.  She didn’t care much for any scenes without Boo to be honest!  I printed many Boo pictures from this site and she colored a total of 7 throughout the week.

I don’t ever want to forget her obsessive coloring so I gathered them all for a group shot…

Of course, Ladybug still plays our iPad, often sitting in our bean bag.  This past week, she has spent most of her time playing Tozzle, Monkey Preschool, and Park Math.  She is still determined to figure out Monkey Math, which is Krash’s game, but it is a bit too hard for her.

People tell me all the time that we look so much alike, I take it as an extreme compliment, because I think my girl is adorable!  I can really see the resemblance in this shot from the pumpkin patch!  I love her happy smile!