Tot School-Slow but Fun

Charger is 29 months

We are kinda winding down for the school year, so we didnt have a 'theme' or a letter. Just a few things that we had a lot of fun with!

I found these fun gumball machine counting mats from Erica at Confessions of a Homeschooler. She offers little circle gumballs for counting, but I decided to make it slightly more 'hands on.' I raided our cotton balls and chose the coordinating color of each mat. I also changed the sizes to make it more fun. I used a huge orange one since I only needed one and used 10 tiny black ones. The sizes slowly got slower throughout the game. Charger loved this and did so well with it! Mustang begged to play too :).



I presented our homemade sound cylinders, but Charger still had his own idea on how we would use them. {click the link to read how I made them}




I found these mats from Erica as well. Charger was to match up the letters in the boxes with the mats. I expected this to be very easy for him since he knows all his letters, but it wasnt. This bored him. I will only do a couple rows at a time if I try it again.



I made up this awesome Big Machines Tot Book from Carissa at 1+1+1=1. Charger LOVED IT! Have I mentioned that he loves cars, trucks, trains, diggers, backhoes, tractors, and scoops? This tot book was PERFECT! There is a little book in the middle that reads, I like...and then finishes with a vehicle. As I read the book, Charger would exclaim 'I like ... too, mom!'

On every single page :)

Tiny Tot School

Mini Cooper is 8 months old

I gave Mini our new nesting blocks. She loved the bright colors and the little blocks in the set. I got them for 1.00 at a yard sale, which I thought was a great deal until I realized that we didnt get #3. Oh well, Mini cant count yet!

I gave her one of the little wooden shelves and let her put the smallest nesting blog in and out of the squares.

She has gotten very good at opening the cabinet under our TV.

And all three kids had fun playing with our new Lauri tall stacking pegs.

Charger used them to build a tall tower.

Mustang lined them up in rows.




And once she caught the pegs, Mini Cooper tried to eat them. Look at that determination!!

We got our pegs as part of our review of CSNstores.com. Make sure you sign up for my $25.00 CSN stores giveaway while you are here. It ends tomorrow {5/17}!!

To see what others did in their Tot School this week, check out the weekly link up at 1+1+1=1. God Bless!!