Tot School M is for Monkey

Charger is 25 months

I can hardly believe that another week has passed! We had a really fun week. There are so many things that you can do with the letter M. We tried hard to squeeze as much into one week as possible.

Sunday's family game night we played Tumbling Monkeys, a new gift from our Aunt Becky-thank you!



Tuesday we did our Montessori trays.

I gave 3 jars and 3 lids to match up and close. I got this idea from The Adventures of Bear, at least I think I did, I cant find it again! It didnt work very well since all the lids were interchangeable. He had a very hard time putting the lids back on the jars but had a great time unscrewing the lids from the jars.



Sorting pom poms-waaay too easy.





Lacing beads onto a pipe cleaner. Charger did very well with this, I was surprised.





Wednesday we read The Mitten by Jan Brett.



We played a very fun mitten toss game that I found on Totally Tots.





We used our new Do a Dot paint markers to color a mitten. I found the worksheet on Making Learning Fun.



Then we made this adorable little mouse you can read about here.



I made a tray for Mustang's preschool and Charger wanted to play. The object was to put pairs of mittens together with clothes pins. He was VERY focused on this.



Thursday we read 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow



I took the retelling graphics from the 1+1+1=1 Tot Pack and made it into a flannel graph set.



Then we reviewed body parts a very cute part of the tot pack.



I gave Charger these generic Word World characters I found at the dollar store. I am not too pleased with the quality, but Charger loved them. He put the words together for a good hour.



Friday was our fun day!

We read Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virgina Lee Burton. To be honest with you, this was above Charger. I had a hard time keeping him interested. He ran around a lot while I read to Mustang.



I gave him a sensory tub of macaroni and measuring cups. The trucks soon found their way into the tub.




I found old business cards that were two part. I let Charger rip them apart on the perforation. He loved this!



Then we had a Masquerade! I pulled out the dress up box, gave both kids a mask, turned on our Veggie Tails Silly songs DVD, and let them take instruments from our new Melissa & Doug Band in a Box. Great fun.





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Preschool Letter S & Letter M

This is our first week linking up with Preschool Creations and we are very excited. Up until now Mustang has been in Tot School, but she 'graduated.' Charger is still in Tot School, and we have a one room school house here, so you may see some repitition in the two posts. I didnt get a chance to post our learning for Mustang from last week so I though I would combine last week with this week.

Last week our letter was S and our theme was Snow.

I drew a capitol and lower case S and Mustang first placed snowman, snowflake, and star stickers in groups of six. Then she colored her S's. She doesnt always like to stay in the lines when she colors and I was so excited that she did this time.



She made an S collage by searching magazines for S words and then cutting them out and pasting them to the paper. She did all the cutting and pasting herself, and needed only a little help with the pictures. I was pleased!



We read Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton-One of my favorites!



Mustang transfered snowballs from one egg holder to another. I gave her a take and toss spoon to use and it was really too small. Check out the concentration-tongue and all!



We drew on our new Aquadoodle that Grandma got us for Christmas-thank you Grandma! It was covered very quickly, but both kids really loved it.



Santa found this awesome make your own calendar at the Dollar Tree. We put together January.




We played with snow in the sink, which you can read about here.



We made snowflakes, ate snowmen, and practiced our S's in our ABC book.




This week our letter was M and our theme was Monkeys, though we didnt do all that much monkey stuff.

For family game night we played Tumbling Monkeys that Mustang got from Aunt Becky for Christmas-Thank you!




On Tuesday we did our Montessori Trays.

Mustang practiced patterns with pipecleaner beading



She practiced lacing with this shoe I found at the dollar store a couple years ago



and then she practiced beginning sounds for letter M and S. I got this idea from Itty Bitty Love.




Wednesday we read 'The Mitten' by Jan Brett



We played a mitten toss game that I found on Totally Tots



I gave Mustang pairs of mittens that she had to clip together with clothes pins, another idea from Totally Tots.




Mustang painted with our new Dot Paints. I found the worksheet on Making Learning Fun.





Then we made our mouse craft which you can read about here.



On Thursday we read 'Five Little Monkeys' by Eileen Christelow



I used the retelling graphics from the 1+1+1=1 Five Little Monkeys Tot Pack on our flannel graph as we read the story. Mustang really liked putting the pieces up.



Then she practiced her spelling and word recognition with her new Melissa and Doug See and Spell



She also did her seat work and practiced her M's with our ABC book (shown earlier).

Friday was our fun day

We read Mike Mulligan's Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton. Mustang really liked this story and I'm glad because it's one of my favorites!



She made a mitten which you can read about here.



And then we had a Masquerade complete with costumes, masks, music from our Veggie Tales DVD and musical instruments from our new Melissa and Doug Music box-thank you Aunt Aimee & Uncle Tay!





Over all, it was a great two weeks. I hope you enjoyed reading it. For more awesome preschool ideas check out the Preschool Corner from Homeschool Creations.