Tot School ~ Letter F {frog}

~Ladybug is currently 34.5 months old~

Here is her desk set up for letter F…

The items in the pocket chart are all available here on the Animal ABCs webpage. I added frogs on her desk, including all of our Webkinz Frogs! {files are released for free when they are posted on the Totally Tots blog for the ABC feature, letter F is not free yet, but it will be once it is posted on Totally Tots!}.

We also had several frog books off to the side in her pink basket. I had a frog blanket I put out as well as our little frog game, which was a BIG hit.

On her shelves, nothing really frog related except for the top…

Here are some Letter F and Frog ideas for you…

She barely worked in her notebook at all this week, really just on one day.

She colored her frogs happily…

We pressed play doh dots onto a frog dot sheet…

She put dot stickers on another frog dot sheet…

Here she is working on Letter F Dot Fun, we used pom pom magnets this time {hot glue small magnets to puff balls}! This set is included in the Animal ABC Bundle, or you can purchase the set as a stand alone set for $1.25 on Teacher’s Notebook.

She worked with me to make the letter craft, which is basically an open ended project that you can do whatever you want with! This week she saw the letter on her desk and went at it with her markers! She colored the entire thing dark blue! Another day we cut frogs together, mostly she did it on her own this time!

Then she glued her frogs on her F…

I snapped a pic of her first 6 letters before I put them in her keepsake notebook for Animal ABCs.

I made some other frog printables for Ladybug, I just don’t have them ready to share yet-gotta adjust and upload the files. I will, promise, just short on time right now! I made a letter maze to match the animal. At first she only wanted to put the magnets on every square, so I let her. Then she noticed she didn’t have enough and logic set in.I told her she would have enough if she just put them on the pathway of letter Ff’s. She did and loved it!

She is VERY into play doh letters. I am working on a new set of A-Z play doh mats that feature the animals from Animal ABCs! She LOVED these and worked on it a few times

We made a frog inspired by No Time for Flashcards…

More frog ideas here…

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 if 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.

This week we did lesson 6, continuing our work with rhyming words. No photos of that part this week!

She loved the letter page this week!

She was SO proud of her completed work. As you can see she worked for a long time and really focused on the details. She chose all colors herself!

It was learning toy week for her. Usually she is more of a table gal, but she played TONS with her toys, which I loved! All of this was her choice, if it were up to me we’d do way more of this every week!

Matching shapes…

Noah’s Ark, she insisted on putting the animals in their proper holes…

This is the best baby toy ever. All 3 of my kids still play with this thing! Here she was spinning her frogs around!

She loves the Animal Train Puzzles…

Pattern Blocks on the dishwasher with Krash…

My girl loved the new colors of play doh. She got busy cutting snakes right away!

She is in LOVE with Skylanders {it’s a video game if you don’t have school age boys, and I recently added a Kindergarten Pack to my website here!} and this is her favorite, Wrecking Ball. She made him with the Play Doh. She is such the little sis of BROTHERS!

She didn’t used to like this toy, but she went to it several times this week. It is a challenge for her, but she can do it!

More pattern block time, she loves that her magnets are all organized now {I got that little click together box set at Target, actually I got several of them!}

This is a new section for Ladybug, it will contain all of the things she does because she simply wants to do whatever the boys are doing!

Here they are doing their Calendar Notebooks, while she sits and colors in her Tot Time Notebook. She said to me several times, “Mommy, I wuv my notebook.” 😉

We are back to focusing on our virtues from We Choose Virtues. We started learning about being Diligent this week. She LOVES the cards and asks to hold them. Guess they make good telescopes?

We are studying Brazil thanks to our Little Passports. I have brought out all of our South America stuff and we just do a little each day-nothing major. She LOVED the puzzle and wanted to do it herself! She repeated all of the countries with me too!

The girl is obsessed with her tutu collection and often has one on. Her recent activity of the day is running around the living room and dancing. It’s really just running, but she thinks she is doing a very fancy dance.

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