In our sensory table right now…

It has been a long time since we had our sensory table out, Lucas was so excited when I brought it out from storage. He has been playing in it almost non stop!

I went through the pantry to find some simple and engaging materials to fill our tub! I choose Rice, Lentils – mostly orange, but some yellow and green as well, and a bit of penne pasta. For his tools I gave him a large scoop, and a pie tin.

Lucas loves to pour the mix into the tin to hear the wonderful noise it makes… he tells me its raining :)

The tin is also great for making birthday cakes!!

This sensory item requires lots of sweeping, so Lucas has been learning to sweep as well!

Tot School

 

Lucas is 25Months

Our week started out pretty slow we have all been sick with a nasty cold around here and Lucas unfortunately, has had it the worst. He also got a needle this week which has made him extra irritable! But we were still able to accomplish quite a bit of learning.

This week we worked on the letter Bb!

I had some bubble wrap that one of our new Christmas decorations came in, and I thought it would be great for Lucas to wear as a mitt and make bubble prints for B.

Then we worked on our B page. His Favourite was the bus of course! He barely bothered to colour anything else!

Our finished Bb page for our alphabet book.

For our open ended art activity did some bubble painting! I have no pictures of Lucas in the process of doing this because I had to make sure he was blowing through the straw and not sipping up the paint – which of course was the first thing he did when I presented the activity to him!

As I mentioned above Lucas was pretty cranky all week, one of the things that kept a smile on his face was our singing snowmen. We have 3 different sets that all dance and sing jingle bells.

Here he is dancing along with a new one that his nanny bought for him!

Another open ended art activity Lucas enjoyed this week was making a Christmas collage. I cut up some of the Christmas cards we received last year along with some colourful wrapping paper and Lucas had lots of fun gluing and arranging everything.

For our structured craft this week –also our stART project we made a school bus

You can see our post about it HERE.

Lucas recently fell in love with Max and Ruby so I downloaded a few episodes off of i-tunes for him. Lucas, being the little computer wiz that he is often takes off to our computer room and goes to i-tunes and turns on Max and Ruby all by himself!

Here he is watching his favourite episode “Ruby’s piano practice”

 

That’s it for this week! Visit 1plus1plus1equals1 to see what other tots are learning.

stART ~ School Bus

This week Lucas and I read School Bus by Donald Crews. My son has an obsession with buses right now so he really enjoyed this book!! As with most books by Donald Crews it had wonderful illustrations and short, simple text… which is a must when reading to my busy little guy!

After we finished reading the book… 3 times! We made a school bus craft. I had all the pieces already cut out and ready for Lucas to glue. I glued the pictures of Lucas and Dominic into the bus for him.

After he was finished gluing he coloured the bus, this was his favourite part. I think this was the longest time he has sat and coloured!

 
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Tot School

Its been a looong time since I last participated in tot school! This week was the first time that I posted something on my blog since July. I have been going through a lot of tough stuff in my life and I just didn’t have the desire to come online.  I plan to write a little post about what has happened over the past few months, but for now I’m just going to jump right back in to tot school mode and share with you what Lucas and I did this month!

Lucas and I have been working on our alphabet for the past little while, he LOVES going on starfall.com and it has really taught him a lot. This week we got started on making our alphabet book. I think these are really cute, but I wanted the letters to be a little more obvious so I went with this older idea I found on 1plus1plus1.

Lucas used a carrot to stamp “apples” onto his Aa’s

When he was finished with that I gave him a paint brush to do some free painting time. It had been a long time since we last had out paint out.. he ended up making 4 pictures! I plan on making this with them.

Lucas is still really into his cars! His favourite thing to do is line them up and then he takes turns playing with each one. I find line ups like this all the time:)

This week while he was playing I asked him to help me sort the cars by their colours.

I made this A page for Lucas when I gave it to him I had him tell me all the things that were on it and then he coloured it.

Afterwards I glued it to the back of his Aa’s page he had made. I am going to put it in a page protector and we are going to make a little alphabet book!

Also this week we did a little stART activity using a cute little book I found at the library

We read the book Little Blue and Little Yellow, I found a cute little video of the book here

Playdough has been really big at our house lately! Even daddy likes to join in on the fun!

I use the same recipe that my mom used to make for me growing up… the feel and the smell of the playdough bring back so many childhood memories :)

Lucas’ favourite tool to use with the playdough is our pizza cutter… its not sharp enough that he could hurt himself, but he is of course always supervised anyways!

Coming in a close second for favourite playdough toy is his cars, he loves to make tracks!

A few weeks ago my hubby and I decided to get the kids an early Christmas present… a puppy!

So perhaps this isn't technically tot school related but Lucas did learn a lot about being gentle and helping to take care of her so I've decided to include it anyways!

We got a beautiful, happy, smart, playful boxer puppy -who we named Abby. The kids LOVED her!  But unfortunately we had to give her away :( Somewhere over the past 6 years I have developed an allergy to dogs! We gave her to another family with kids and they have agreed to send us photos every once in awhile so that we can she how she is growing.

That’s it for this week! Visit 1plus1plus1equals1 to see what other tots are learning.

stART ~ Little Blue and Little Yellow

 

I have been working with Lucas on learning his colors, so I picked out Little Blue and Little Yellow for our stART project. Its such a cute little story!

For our art project I gave Lucas blue and yellow paint together on a plate for him to mix and paint.

I had originally planned on having Lucas finger paint, but it has been awhile since we last used paint and he wasn’t very interested in getting his hands dirty.

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