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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TOTSchool

Our week in TOTSchool.

Emily is 2 1/2 years old!

We made new crayons out of our old crayons! Emily enjoyed peeling the labels off of the old crayons and then breaking them up to fit into the star shaped muffin tin.

We did our first stART project.

Emily and I read Just How Long Can A Long String Be, by Keith Baker and then we made these fun yarn bowls.

For our Open Ended Art project we made sun catchers out of crayon shavings. Emily was able to peel more crayons for this project. She also liked sprinkling the shavings onto the paper to make a pretty design.


Aunt Jennifer came over and made some fun water toys out of kitchen sponges. We found this project idea in our Family Fun Magazine. Emily had fun playing with the sponges while she was waiting for Aunt Jennifer to cut them up.


Emily put Juliettes little newborn diapers on her babies and wheeled them around. She loves pretending to be a mommy!


Emily used some of the extra sponges to do this activity that I found on this blog. I didn't think she would really be that into it, but it turned out to be the favorite of the week! She asked to do this almost every day since she first did it.

For our Unplugged project we did body tracings. Emily loved the idea of tracing Juliette and coloring her in. After I hung up the Juliette tracing I needed one of Emily so we could see the difference in their size. On Emily's we labeled the different parts of her body.

Our favorite books from this week:

• Wiggle ~ Doreen Cronin
• The Three Pigs ~ David Wiesner
• A Fly Went By ~ Mike McClintock
• The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear ~ Don and Audrey Wood
  
  
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TOTSchool

Our week in TOTSchool

Emily is 2 1/2 years old.

Emily helped me make Pumpkin Apple Muffins. Her favorite part was sprinkling the crumb topping over them.

Emily used her roller to paint for this weeks Open Ended Art project.

We went to the town pool.

Emily made a Geodesic dome with Mommy and Uncle Scott.


We made Corn Cakes for dinner. We were able to use some fresh chives from our garden.


Emily had a great time with Billy and Abby at the Holtsville Ecology Center. Her favorite part was feeding the goats. This is the first time she would even get close to them since she was a baby. She was also excited to see the Peacocks, however she was disappointed when the didn't open their feathers for her!

We went to visit Cousin Ryan and had some fun in the pool!

Emily did some cutting practice. She did a great job cutting on the line down the whole piece of paper.

Our favorite books from this week:

• Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? ~ Bill Martin Jr.
• Cookie's Week ~ Cindy Ward
• Green Eggs and Ham ~ Dr. Seuss
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar ~ Eric Carle
  
  
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TOTSchool

Our week in TOTSchool

Emily is 2 1/2 years old!!!

Emily liked playing with Juliette in her bouncer. She showed her how the different rattles worked and likes turning on the music for her!

Emily did some straw painting which she really enjoyed!

At playgroup the girls had fun keeping cool in the pool.

Emily did an Open Ended Art painting with mixing yellow and green. We turned this into wrapping paper for her cousin's birthday party.

Emily trying to pick our first cucumber of the season.

Emily learned that tugging on it as in the last picture results in a broken, but still edible cucumber!!!

I made Emily pattern blocks out of foam (I couldn't wait to get our set of wood ones) and used the printable worksheet that The Activity Mom posted about from this website.

Emily had a lot of fun playing outside at her cousin's 5th Birthday Party!

Emily learned how to use the blood pressure cuff from coming with me for all my prenatal Dr. appointments!

Emily and her cousin had a good time playing Doctor together.

Our favorite books from this week:

• Green Eggs and Ham ~ Dr. Seuss


• Dinosaur Roar! ~ Henrietta Stickland


• Go, Dog. Go! (Beginner Books) ~ P.D. Eastman


• The Very Hungry Caterpillar ~ Eric Carle (Emily retells this story by herself really well, I guess that's what happens when you read it every day over and over again!!)
  
  
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