STart ~ Go, Go, Boats!

 

This week Lucas and I read Go, Go, Boats. Its just a simple board book showing the different kinds of boats. Lucas and I are currently working on recognizing the letter B and also the color blue so this fit activity fit perfectly into that.

We started off our art project with painting some water

 

Then later we colored a sailboat….

Lucas was not very interested in this, he did a few scribbles and ran away before I could even catch a picture!

Afterwards I cut out his sailboat and put the glue on his paper for him and Daddy helped him put his boat back together.

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Tot School – This & That

This is my first tot school post in few weeks! I have been so busy with the move and the new house that I haven’t been able to take many pictures or spend much time online. Things have begun to calm down around here so I am hoping to go ahead with my plans of a more structured tot school for Lucas.  Next week we are going to begin with introducing a letter a week as well as either a number, color or shape.  I have 3 weeks worth of tot school already planned so hopefully Lucas feels like learning : )

Until then here is a post about something's we’ve been up to over the past few weeks!

Lucas loves his stacking cups! We build towers (and knock them down of course!), and we sort them by color, we ‘nest’ them back together and Lucas’ new favorite thing to do with his cups is to put his marbles inside them and pour them from one cup to another.

 

I made this tot book for Lucas, he is really into Elmo right now so this has been a big favorite around here! You can read more about this here.

 

Lucas has been really into pretend play lately, in this picture he is setting the dolls up at the table to have “nack”

 

We have done some spooning with marbles which was a HUGE HIT!  

 

Here Lucas is trying to put shoes onto baby Sophia (this was Dominic’s doll from when he was a baby!)

and here he is helping the baby do a somersault!

 

Lucas was happy to have his peg board unpacked, even big brother wanted to play!

 

We had lots of fun playing in mud puddles!

 

We did a STart project last week which you can read about here.

 

Lucas loves to help daddy and big brother pick raspberries in the backyard!

 

and the most recent thing we did was……… a haircut!

Doesn’t he look like such a big boy now?

I keep asking him to stop growing, but he just doesn’t seem to wanna listen ; )

Little Hands in the Kitchen - Omelets

Dominic and I have been cooking/baking something together at least once a week for the past few weeks. He absolutely loves it! This week he made omelets.

Dominic loves to cook and help out in the kitchen, and I know there are a lot of other kids out there that like to as well! So I have been thinking of starting a “Little Hands in the Kitchen” linky each week. Would anyone be interested in participating?

Simple Fun

It amazes me how something so simple can be so engaging for children. Lucas and I went for a walk a few days ago while we were up north, we stumbled upon a small mud puddle and Lucas and I played in it for a long time. Digging and splashing, and jumping, and of course throwing rocks!!

 

I couldnt decide which pictures to post so I added them all!!

STart ~ Elmo’s ABC’s

Its been awhile since our last STart post, we’ve been busy moving to a new city!  We are finally getting settled in our new home and able to do more of our regular activities.

This week we read Elmo’s ABC Book. Lucas loves Elmo right now!

After Dominic finished reading the book we just did a simple art project since most of our craft supplies are not yet unpacked. 

I printed out some Elmo coloring sheets and the boys used our tempera paint pucks to paint them.

Dominic joined us in painting too!

After we were done painting we added some alphabet stickers

 

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Spooning Marbles

While I’ve been busy getting the house organized I’ve had to come up with some activities to keep Lucas busy. His favorite activity at the moment is spooning marbles!

He was able to control the marbles much better from when we did this activity using rice a few weeks ago.

After Lucas spent some time spooning the marbles back and fourth between the bowls, I gave him an ice cube tray and we put one marble in to each section and counted them.

He lost interest almost instantly! and went back to the original activity.

 

I’ve noticed when I directly teach him things… like counting out the marbles, he wants no part of it. But if we are singing our finger counting song he will count to 10 no problem. What a little monkey!!!