Tot School and Preschool Wrap Up Letter D for Duck Bird Theme

Following the Tot School plans from 1+1+1=1, we moved forward to letter D for Duck and learned about birds.

Trays used this week 

Bird matching.  This came from the bird {free} pack at 3 Dinosaurs.

Using the same pack, I made a size sorting tray.  

Instead of using the sorting mat in the pack, I made little nests from construction paper.  Explorer called them bowls.  I'm not that crafty!

These were supposed to be used for patterning, I think.  But I did a sort and count tray for Mini Cooper.  Printables are also from the 3 Dinosaurs pack.  

 This one is not related to our bird theme, but is great for winter.  I found the snowflakes at the Dollar Tree (they are ornaments), and I wrote a number of 0-9 on each.  Mini Cooper counted out beads to go with each.  Explorer matched one to one, placing a bead in the center of each.

Bird themed puzzles from Discovery toys.

Montessori Materials used this week

Explorer worked with the pink tower this week.  I always love watching this material in action!

Mini Cooper had her second presentation of the teens boards.

We also brought out the teens hanger.

The letter d sandpaper letter was introduced.  The sound disks are from The Helpful Garden.

Explorer has been tracing letters all week.

And, we joined the big kids making play-dough landforms and using our water beads with them.

Learning Toys

Our Melissa and Doug alphabet train puzzle was a big hit (though it required the girls to share-not such a big hit).

Melissa and Doug spelling puzzles.

 Duck lacing cards, and Lauri puzzles (I chose just the duck and bird puzzles for this week).

Printables, books & more

We used printables from 1+1+1=1's D is for Duck tot pack.

We read Have You Seen Birds?  by Jeanne Oppenheim

We attempted to make bird art with our fingerprints, but she just wanted to put her fingerprint all over the paper.  That worked too.

Last, but not least, thanks to a large snowstorm this week, we all enjoyed some snow ice cream.  Yummy!!

It was a great week and we had a lot of fun!  We've also been enjoying the beginning of the Olympics.  This next week, we will be doing the very typical and timely theme of Valentine's Day :).

Hope you had a great week!

God Bless,

Lisa

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D is for Dairy Farm

On our trip to South Dakota to visit Grandma for her 90th birthday celebration, we had the opportunity to visit my husband's cousin's house.  He married an amazing girl who is a dairy farmer!  Yes, I said SHE is a dairy farmer.  He has joined her in running the dairy at their home, but the dairy was her idea and she is the one in charge!

It's always lovely when you can count a trip to your relative's house as a field trip :).  We had a really fun time getting to see all the goings on at a small home dairy.

I think the kids had more fun playing with the dog and cat.   

These little ones were soooo cute!!!  I would have taken one home if they didn't get any bigger...which of course they do!

The pet sheep!  They had names, I think they were Boris and Delores.  They were so funny!

Milking!

It was a really neat experience to see all the cows lined up for milking.  DH's cousin and his wife are the only two working there and they work very hard!  I don't think it would be something I would want to do, but they truly enjoy doing it and it was fun to watch!

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Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!!