Tot School ~ Letter Xx

~Ladybug is currently 31.5 months old~

Letter: Xx

Object: Xylophone

Vocabulary Development Theme: Instruments

Tot Book Extension: Little Einsteins

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

I can’t believe we are so close to the end of Tot School Printables!  It is coming at a perfect time.  She still likes them, but not as much as she did in the beginning.  She is ready for something new.  We will be completing the units before the new year and starting something fresh in January when we return from Christmas break! I will be writing a post soon to share what my plans are, I just haven’t had the time yet!

We made play dough letters…

Coloring xylophones…

Putting stickers on the dot-paint sheet…

Letter Xx printables here!

Fun Books & Toys for this unit here!

The theme of instruments made me think of one of Ladybug’s favorite shows, Little Einsteins.  I created some extra activities for her, which as you will see she LOVED! Download the Little Einsteins Tot Book for free here!

She loved the mini book!

We slipped the dot paint sheets into sheet protectors and she squished play dough balls on the dots.

Then she asked to write their names.  Her tracing seriously amazes me.  Her simple desire to trace amazes me to be honest!

We made the shapes with dough too…

Then she dot painted a few of them…

We used dot stickers on some too!

She worked on her rocket colors book over a period of several days.  The other printables also came out numerous times!

I remembered to take a photo of her shelves this week!  Nothing too great, but here they are……

• top left {in basket}: Veggie Tales Nativity Set
• Top Right {in box} Christmas Board Books
• Top Left Shelf: Various small Christmas toys on a tray
• Top Middle: 4 letters and boards
• Top Right: Red/Green bead stringing on a glittery pipe cleaner
• Bottom Left: Small Blocks
• Bottom Middle: Mr. Potato Head
• Bottom Right {drawer}: Instruments {to go along with our Letter Xx theme}

Didn’t take many action shots, but got this one of her stringing her beads!

She loves that Laura Carrot sings.  This is the same manger in the book, The Stable that Bob Built-which she is loving right now!

The instrument box was a hit!  One day we turned on our Laurie Berkner DVD for some movement!  She was shaking her Boca Beth Egg Shakers to the music!

Her Tot Time Notebook {which has only ABC sheets in it right now} gets filled in almost daily-she gravitates towards it on her own and will often sit and work through every single page!

The new Play Dough Box has been a HUGE hit.  She has asked for it daily, almost to an excessive point!

We have been reading a few gingerbread books and there are gingerbread cutters in the box…which has provided TONS of fun for her and the boys!

One night when the boys were at church with Daddy, she begged me to do another Truth in the Tinsel bag.  Instead, we painted another crown craft, and then she didn’t want to stop, so we kept on painting!…and painting…

…and painting!

After a few normal painted sheets, she decided to turn it into finger paint {with my approval}…

She LOVED it! 

Remember last time she painted and painted her arms?  She was starting to do it again and I decided to put the limit on her this time and said just her hands.This was her sorrowful response.  The girl does not like to be told NO!  She listened though, very sadly {and a bit loudly}.

We had such a fun time together, since it was mostly giggles and smiles!  The tears only lasted a few minutes!