Tot School ~ Letter D

~Ladybug is currently 33.5 months old~

Here is her desk set up for letter D…

The items in the pocket chart are all available here on the Animal ABCs webpage. I added dolphins on her desk, and also a little basket with shells and mini wooden dolphins we had. {files are released for free when they are posted on the Totally Tots blog for the ABC feature, letter D is not free yet, but it will be once it is posted on Totally Tots!}.

We also had several dolphin books off to the side in her pink basket. Our Betty Lukens Ocean Felt Set was displayed for her also.

Here are some Letter D and Dolphin ideas for you…

On our other shelf I put our water beads tub and showed her that she could add the shells and dolphins into it. She LOVED it. Hours of play have taken place with this bin!

She finally wanted to color her flashcards, she asked for them specifically and wanted me to color one and she wanted to color this one…

She worked in her notebook a lot, but not as much as Letter A and Letter B week!

She really enjoys the coloring each week, here she was coloring her dolphins and had set up her dolphin puppet to watch her!

I created a new activity for her, which I have added to the Animal ABC purchase page for now {if you have already purchased, just log back in and download the Dot Fun set, if you purchase now, it is included with the rest of the set!}. I might offer these one by one for free in the future but I am short on time for now, so the set is only available in the bundle option. Here she is working on Letter D Dot Fun, she chose to use stickers. I offered her the option of using pom pom magnets, dot paint, or stickers and she chose stickers!

She worked with me to make the letter craft, which is basically an open ended project that you can do whatever you want with! I offered her blue “snow paint” which obviously we called “ocean paint” for this activity! She painted her letter D,

Then we stuck her dolphins right in the paint, since it has glue in the mixture, this worked perfectly!

After crafting, she played! We added her mini dolphin toys to the fun and she was in HEAVEN!

Special Note: Please read my post about Following the Child’s Lead if you have a tot and need info about this. All tots are different and what Ladybug is doing may not be appropriate for your child, even is s/he is the same age!

We are taking our All About Reading Pre Level 1 lessons slowly. I am not expecting mastery from Ladybug, just using this program as a way to expose her to the Big Five Skills. She is a bit too young for the program and Krash is a bit too old, so that’s why we are using it together.

This week we did lesson 4, again, working on rhyming words.

She chose to color her letter D page by herself this week, wanting the entire thing dark blue…

Sorting counting bears by color, in our colored bowls {a Discovery Toys toy-feeling hats, I think}…

Playing Fish ABCs with me, finding the letters on the board and matching the fish…

4 piece puzzles in a tiny ocean book we have…

Playing with her ocean felt set…

One day I was feeling brave so we made snowmen together. We used “snow paint.” I had each child choose a color too, Ladybug chose purple. I cut out her snowman circles for her and then she went at it!

After the painting was done, we played with the shaving cream alone! I cannot believe I waited so long to let her do this, she LOVED, LOVED, LOVED it!

The next day we designed our snowmen, here is Ladybug’s sad man…

Curls and giggles!

Silly, silly girl…

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