tot school ~ 5.24.2011

Since Lucas has stopped taking his afternoon naps it has been really difficult to find time to get online! Let alone upload hundreds of pictures and write a whole post!! Oh well.. Better late then never : )  Here is a look at our past week.

Learning through art and crafting

Lucas did painting/printing with some left over bubble paper packaging. I have seen this on several different blogs, it is also an activity that I  had bookmarked from our First Art book.

Lucas has been really interested in using scissors over the past two weeks.  He has been helping himself to the scissors and paper and he has gotten really good at using them. This week I will be setting up some more structured scissor activities for him.

We used our new paint rollers to create some BIG messy art!

We also participated in stART this week @ A Mommy’s Adventures. We made the crab from the book My Heart is Like a Zoo.

Lucas has really enjoyed the new materials in our sensory table for playing, and also some large scale sorting.

Learning through creative play

Lucas is really into role playing right now. In the picture above we used our waffle blocks to build a house and then he set up the table with the mommy, the daddy, the big brother and the baby.

Here is look at Lucas during play. I helped Lucas to set up his blocks and then he arranged the trees, street lights & signs, and people around the town. Then he drove his vehicles around to the different locations. He pretended one of the blocks was toys r us – his favourite store : )

Lucas has always loved our marble run but now that he can independently set up a track, he plays with it nonstop!

Another very popular toy this week was our train table. For the past 2 months the tracks had been packed away, once they were set up again there was lots of renewed interest!

Other Fun Stuff

From May to October we spend the majority of our weekends at our trailer up north, this past weekend was our first time up there this year.  While we are there we spent 90% of our time outside playing  so Lucas had a blast– except for at night when he cried to go home : (

 

In the picture above the trailer that you see across the road, belongs to my in-laws.

On the roof of their shed a robin made a nest and had some babies

 

aren’t they beautiful? Lucas wasn’t really interested in them… but I think I took nearly 100 photos of them!

 

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

tot school ~ highlights from the past few months

 

 

 

That was a much longer break then I had originally anticipated, but I am glad to be back! Here is a collection of pictures from the past few months…

        painting with scrapers  

        drawing circles in the sand

        free art with dot markers

      torn paper collage…kinda. He lost interest : )

        lots of puzzles

         playing DS Games with big brother

         Lucas inherited an old cell phone which he LOVES! Its been great helping him learn his numbers.

        Mr. Shaggy Doo – got a hair cut

                                           Lacing and wearing wooden shoes

        Threading beads

                                          building with wedgits

 

         making bus trains ~ my mom gives him a one of those little yellow buses every time we go to her house for a visit.

         rice and lentils in the sensory table

         meeting petey the bird
                                            … and taking him for a ride on mack

         play dough sculptures ~ with googly eyes, big beads, and feathers

        painting a mini birdhouse

         more collages

        and glitter 

 

       dying Easter eggs

 

tot school ~ 27months

Lucas is 27 Months

I don’t have too much to share this week. We didn’t go with a theme life has been a little to hectic so we just focused on the things Lucas likes to do, and had a lot of fun ~ which really, is the best way to do tot school!

Lucas really likes working with glue, he asks for it daily. We easily go through a bottle a week – or day if I let him ; )

feathers and glue

a fun simple open ended art activity

I brought out our peg boards this week…

we built towers

  and sorted out the pegs by colour.

we played with vinegar and baking soda again, this time Lucas really got into it ; )

We also had a lot of fun with puffy paint!

Lucas really enjoyed playing with this maze,  you use the magnetic pen to move the balls to the different animals… its great for exercising his fine motor skills and hand eye coordination!

Lucas helped set up a marble track and LOVED racing his marbles around

This week I brought out our Melissa and Doug sequencing set. We don't follow the cards yet we just make our own patterns.

and sort them by colour.

After reading Chicka Chicka Boom Boom we matched our letters to the letters at the back of the book. 

then we put them on to our coconut tree  

Over the past few weeks Lucas has really been into the movie Cars, and it has really sparked a lot of imaginative play which has been really nice to see!In this photo he has his buses talking to each other.

This last photo is may favourite! My two boys playing cooperatively together – a rare moment!

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