Tot School

Lucas is 18Months




This will probably be our last Tot School post until after we move. It’s only a few weeks to our moving date and its really time for me to start packing our toys as well as the rest of the house!

What we did this week….

We worked with our Melissa and Doug bead sequencing set. I asked Lucas to use the green beads and he was doing good finding them....

... until he got a blue bead. Colors are something we still need to work on : )

We had a new sensory item this week, puzzles! Lucas really enjoyed this. He liked spooning the pieces into his cup.

We also worked on a puzzle this week

We did this Melissa and Doug puzzle we did the frame together and he put the animals in himself.

 

He really liked doing a big boy puzzle like he watches his brother do!

But his favourite part of course was tearing it apart so we could start all over again. We did this puzzle 3 times just this day, and several other times throughout the week.

Lucas likes to paint at the easel but this week was the first time he coloured on the dry erase board easel. Regular markers tend to not draw well on there, so we used our window markers and they stayed on great.

He really liked doing this, although now I'm a little nervous about him finding a marker somewhere and coloring on my walls!

When he was finished coloring his picture I gave him a wet cloth to erase his picture.

He liked this part too!

Lucas is really in to babies right now. He likes to take care of his babies by wrapping them in blankies and feeding them pretend food and sharing his cups with them.

So yesterday when I was at a garage sale and seen a doll stroller for 50 cents I just had to get it for him!

He loves it! It was hard for me to even get a picture of him with it he as been running around the house with it since we brought it home!

Lucas likes to point to himself and say baby...

Which has him trying to get into the stroller himself, what a little monkey!  : )

Once we are settled in our new house I am planning on making our tot school time more focused. I'm not sure about themes yet, but I would definitely like to start introducing the alphabet and numbers to him. Right now I am working on making a form for me to jot down my ideas for each week. Once I'm finished making it I will post about it here if anyone is interested.

 

In the sensory tub right now...

My kids looove their sensory table! I am always trying to come up with new ideas on what to put in it. To keep interest levels up I tend to change the materials every week, or two weeks if its something really popular.

This week we did puzzle pieces. I had some old puzzles that I was saving for crafts but I thought it would work well in the sensory table as well.

It has been a hit so far. The last material we had in here was lentils, the puzzles pieces are much easier to tidy up compared to that : )

I would love to hear what other Mama's are using in their sensory tables!

Tot School

Lucas is 18Months

What we did this week....

Lucas LOVES marbles! He plays with them on a daily basis (supervised of course!). On Tuesday while Dominic was at school I set up a simple marble run for Lucas, he played with it for a little over an hour!

When Dominic got home from school they continued playing with this for awhile and I was able to pack 2 boxes - Yay!

On wednesday we played with water

I cut a sponge into small squares and put them in a tub with some water and soap and let Lucas and Dominic play in it they both love any sort of sensory play

Also on wednesday we explored our new tot book

His favourite part of the tot book is putting the shapes in and out of the pouch

On thursday we did our STart project which involved stamping shapes!

He loved bangning them on the paper

Then we spent Friday - Monday up north at our trailer. It was a long weekend here in Canada (Victoria Day) so we had lots of BBQ's, campfires, and fireworks. I dont have too many pictures to share I was too busy enjoying time with family & friends. But here are a few pictures I was able to catch...

Lucas' first time eating ice cream

I think he liked it! : )

Lucas' cousin sharing a slice of watermelon with him at the beach

leaving the beach

That unfortunatley is all the pictures I have from the weekend! 

And did you notice a blur to most of the pictures in this post? Someone with little sticky fingers got ahold of my camera and I didnt notice the dirty lense until I uploaded my pictures and seen the blurs!

STart ~ Mouse Shapes

This week for our STart project we read Mouse Shapes by Ellen Walsh

And for our art project we did shape prints using the shapes from our shape sorter toy

He really enjoyed this project, he thought it was fun to bang the shapes and watch some of the paint splatter

He had so much fun with this that by the end we could barely see the shapes anymore : )

and of course it would be a true painting experience if he didnt get a taste, right?



Visit A Mommys Adeventures to find other STart projects!

Our First Tot Book!

As soon as I seen the Thomas the Train Tot Pack on the 1+1+1 website I knew I had to make it. Lucas loves trains! 

I had to make everything "Lucas proof" if I didnt he would have ripped it to shreds in a matter of minutes.

I started by laminating the "Thomas and Friends" book and then put it on to keyrings and threaded it through the file folder - which is also reinforced with contact paper. The number fold has also been reinforced with contact paper (after I put the contact paper on I sandwhiched it between some books so that it would do the accordian fold).  The shapes are laminated and the pouch for the shapes is contact paper.

Here he is working with his shapes. So far he can only identify the circle, but now that we've got the train shapes Im sure he'll be able to learn a few more ; )

here he is flipping through the pages of the book.

I knew he would be trying to rip this apart... So glad I LucasProofed it!

You can find the Thomas the Train - Tot Pack here!

Tot School

Lucas is 18Months

What we did this week....

Lucas LOVES this book we look at it several times a day. He likes to point to all the different objects and ask me "whats dat?"

I also spend time asking him to point to the objects that he knows " Lucas wheres the pig?"  He is very proud of himself when he is able to find what I want him to : )

This week we tried spooning rice!

as you can tell from the mess, this was a bit tricky for him but he loved every minute of it and did not want to stop!

We did a STart project this week... (that I never got around to posting!)

For this we read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and  I had precut and glued a tree onto paper for him and then I gave him alphabet stickers to stick to the tree.  He has never really been interested in stickers before so I was pleasntly suprised when we were able to do the entire alphabet!

"Cheese!"

We spent our weekend up north at our trailer Lucas loved spending so much time outside!

We watched daddy (from a safe distance) chop wood with the axe. Then Lucas helped daddy put all the wood into our little wood shed.

And then we spent most of  our weekend playing like this

 

Check out what others do with their tots at Tot School @ 1+1+1=1.

Tiny Rocks + Stacking Cups=1 Happy Boy!!

We spent this weekend up north at our trailer. Lucas loved being able to spend soo much time outside and was instantly attracted to the gravel roads. I gave him a set of stacking cups to use with the rocks and he was thrilled!

 He didnt want to do anything else the rest of the time we were there!

He had tons of fun filling and pouring the cups.

The next day was no different. Its the first thing he did when he got outside.

This time Mama added a dump truck to the mix!

Soo much fun!