TOTSchool

Our week in TOTSchool

Emily is 35 months old.

These are the past two weeks in TOTSchool and I am now finally caught up!! It definitely feels good to be back on track. I am looking forward to some great activities in the next few weeks. Emily has really started to show and interest in letters and writing them so that is what we will start to focus on.

We worked on the letter Ii with our friends at Sarah’s house. She has some good pictures of the finished products. We made igloos for our Alphabet book.

We made handprint/fingerprint penguins. I loved the way these came out. They look like they are marching across the paper. We used the side of their fist for the body and then their fingerprints to make the white belly, beak and feet.

Gluing mini marshmallows on this snowman was a great fine motor skill practice. They also enjoyed eating the marshmallows :0)

Emily had fun stamping with this penguin rubber stamp that she received for Christmas. I couldn’t believe what a great job she did lining them up. I left her to do what she wanted with it and really expected to see a bunch on top of each other. When she finished she called me over and asked me to write their names under them. Many of them were named Grandma and Grandpa I thought that was pretty funny.

We started a color wheel project in our Art Group. For the first week we did red. We will collage the primary colors and then work on the secondary colors.

We made blob paintings after reading It Looked Like Spilt Milk. Emily decided hers looked like a butterfly and it really did!

This, handwriting ring from Confessions of a Homeschooler was my favorite printout of the week!! I can’t wait to make some more. Emily loved working on it and it stayed out all week. She did an amazing job tracing the lines and different patterns too. I think she is definitely ready to work on letters now.

Emily decorated a teddy bear cupcake and Juliette really wanted to taste some, but she still has a while to go before we introduce her to these sweets!!

When we were at my mom’s house Emily wanted to play with these Make a Picture Tiles. This was one of my favorite games/toys when I was little. You get to make all different pictures with the different tile cards. My mom had this from when she used to sell discovery toys.

For our stART project we made paper plate penguins after reading If I Were a Penguin.

During our Art Group we worked on our Color Wheel Project. This week we focused on Yellow. Here Emily is painting with spaghetti

Some of our favorite books from this week:

• It Looked Like Spilt Milk ~ Charles Shaw
• If You Give a Pig a Pancake ~ Laura Numeroff
• If You Were a Penguin ~ Wendell and Florence Minor
• Good Night Moon ~ Margret Wise Brown

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Open Ended Art ~ Mixed Mediums

Emily's Yellow Glitter, Paint and Tissue Paper Art

This weeks Open Ended Art theme is Mixed Mediums. Emily used a sponge roller to paint with yellow paint and then added some glitter and yellow tissue paper.

Emily using her sponge roller.

Adding the glitter.

After Emily painted with the glitter she asked to use glue and tissue paper. So I got her some yellow tissue paper and glue and she finished her work of art!

Open Ended Art ~ Mixing With Yellow

Emily's Yellow and Blue Painting

This weeks Open Ended Art theme is Mixing with Yellow. Emily painted on her easel with YELLOW and BLUE paint.

Emily started with the BLUE paint.

Then she added the YELLOW.

When Emily was all finished painting we let it dry and then used the painting to wrap up a birthday present for her cousin Anthony. Emily decorated the present with stickers. I helped her add the foam letters to spell out "Happy Birthday Anthony."

Open Ended Art ~ Yellow Prints

Emily's Yellow Prints

This weeks Open Ended Art theme is Yellow Prints. Emily printed with the letters from her foam ABC puzzle that I got at the Dollar Tree!

Emily dipping the letters in the paint.

Printing with the letters

Open Ended Art ~ Yellow Collage

Emily's Yellow CollageAfter seeing so many great Open Ended Art projects at Teaching My Little Bookworm, I decided we needed to join in the fun! This weeks Open Ended art Theme is a Yellow Collage. We got out all of our yellow craft supplies and Emily went to work with the glitter glue first!

She enjoyed painting with pieces of foam and especially the sponges.

Emily glued on cut up yellow straws, pom poms, tissue paper and pipe cleaners.

Unplugged Project ~ Yellow

Yellow Scavenger Hunt

This weeks Unplugged Project was "Yellow" and I decided it would be fun to do a scavenger hunt with Emily.

I typed up clues for some yellow things that Emily was familiar with and printed them out so that I could read them to her during the hunt.

You and Grandpa like to build with this when he watches you on Mondays.

What is it?

Duplos!!

Mommy puts these in your hair to make it look pretty and keep it out of your eyes.

What are they?

Clips!!

These grow outside in the middle of the grass.

What are they?

Dandelions!!

Emily did a great job listening to the clue, telling me what it was and then going to find it. We will definitely have to try this again. She was so excited to run around the house and front yard to find the yellow things on our list.

After we finished the Yellow Scavenger Hunt we also made Yellow Dandelion Prints which was a lot of fun too!