Tot School - Letter L

 

Jimmy is 32 months old 

Boy, am I late getting this posted!!!

Here is what we did for letter L last week:

Letter L on Starfall.com

We did the letter L tracing sheet from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

The Letter L Lion on the Totally Tots website

A Leaf Garland like the one on No Time For Flashcards.

We read a few books:

We made a letter L tree with leaves on it.

Some things we did that have nothing to do with letter L:

A neat Tracing Placemat inspired by the ones on No Time for Flash Cards.

And shape matching using Carisa's shape tracers printable.

Shew, that about covers it! Sorry this was sooo late! Letter M will be up in a few days, hopefully!

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Tot School - Letter K

 

Jimmy is 32 months old  
(He was 31 months when we did these activities)

Last week we resumed our alphabet activities with the Letter K.

Here is what we did:

Letter K on Starfall.com 

I made a Playdough Mat for Jimmy and he did a great job! I had to help with rolling out the playdough, but he traced the letter with no trouble at all. We will definitely be doing more of these!

I printed out this Letter Hunt and Jimmy did great. We are still working on how to circle things, but he did a wonderful job scribbling over the k's. =)

We also did a letter tracing sheet. I am so sorry but I forgot where I found it! If you know, please let me know so I can provide a link. It also came with pictures you could cut out to make a collage around the uppercase and lowercase letters.

We made the letter K kangaroo on the Totally Tots website. Jimmy loves it!

We read lots of books, including these with the letter K in the title.

We also had plenty of playtime, especially with blocks and trains. Jimmy's favorite!

To end the week, we went to our town's festival Friday night and Saturday. Friday night they always have an auction in the center of town and Jimmy's grandpa bought him this:

So Jimmy ended the week learning how to pedal his new "tractor" and carrying around little rocks in the trailer.


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Tot School - Letter "J"

 

Jimmy is 28 months old

Last week was Letter J Week!

Here is what we did:

Letter J on Starfall.com 

We made the Totally Tots J is for Jaguar foam letter. Jimmy loves it and calls it "meow meow". Ahh my sweet boy, loves anything to do with cats!

Letter J Tracing page from Confessions of a Homeschooler. Its really hard to see since Jimmy wasn't pushing very hard with the crayon, but he did outline it! His favorite part was dotting the J.

Alphabet Matching sheet from Confessions of a Homeschooler, just the first page, A-L, since we are only up to J. He did this perfectly, I think he could have done the rest of the letters with a little help.

We practiced with the clothespin again, with the letter J card from 1+1+1=1, the clothespin abc's. Jimmy still would rather point to the correct letter, but he has figured out how to open the clothespin. Now he just needs to learn how to clip it where he wants it!

Oh, I almost forgot, I must not have taken a picture...Jimmy worked on his Bottle Top Name card from 1+1+1=1 again. Very fitting for this week since his name is Jimmy! He has that pretty much down pat, except that he would rather mommy put the letters on because he can't lay them on the card perfectly lol!

Outdoor fun!!
We went to the park this week! We had a picnic with a very good friend of mine. Then we played on the playground. Jimmy loves the slide and he went down it SO many times! After that, we took a walk around the pond and got to see all the swans and ducks and geese. Jimmy had a blast!

 To see more swan photos, check out my other blog here.

That's it for Letter J week. Thanks for stopping by! Make sure you head over and check out the other Tot School posts for the week at 1+1+1=1

Tot School - Letter "I"

 

Jimmy is 27 months old

Last week we focused on the letter I. I think we only spent about 2 days on it, but we got a lot accomplished in that short time.

First, the Letter I on Starfall.com

Next we did the I is for Iguana foam letter from Totally Tots. We added stripes on the tail to give Jimmy a little more to do/glue on. He enjoyed it!

He glued the tongue on and stuck out his tongue when he was done, cute!

 

We did this really cute Ice Cream Cone matching game from Home Grown Hearts found here. Jimmy did this one perfectly! I was so proud of him, he even surprised his dad! If we asked him to match a certain color, he did, he knew them all.

I printed out this really cute Inchworm size sorting activity from Confessions of a Homeschooler. Jimmy didn't quite get the concept yet, but we will work on it! He wanted to play "house" with the inchworms, he made the biggest one the daddy and the smallest one the baby...so he knows they are different sizes, that's a start!

I LOVED this Brown Bear Heads & Tails matching activity from 1+1+1=1. Jimmy matched them all up perfectly. I would say he has his colors down (of course you can't tell from the pic because by the time I got the camera, he was ready to be done)! It was so cute though, he made the animal sounds as he matched each pair up.

We also tried out this activity from 1+1+1=1, the clothespin abc's where you have to find the lowercase letter. I thought it was so cute so I just gave Jimmy the "letter I" one since it went with this week's theme. Jimmy found the lowercase letter just fine, but he had trouble with the clothespin so we will be working on learning how to correctly open and close it. Oh and then the dog chewed the clothespin up a little later so its a good thing I have a huge supply of them for hanging laundry out lol!

That's it for Letter I week. Thanks for stopping by! Make sure you head over and check out the other Tot School posts for the week at 1+1+1=1

Tot School - Letter "H"

 

Jimmy is 27 months old

Last week we did Letter H activities. We didn't get too much accomplished, but we had fun!

Letter H on Starfall.com.

H is for Hippo foam craft. Another one I came up with! I am on a roll lol. Jimmy got to do more with this one too, like the giraffe. He got to color the foam gray and glue all the toes and ears and tail on.

We did another "stained glass" project, this time a hummingbird.

We did the hummingbird craft in honor of Phoebe, the hummingbird we have been watching on a live stream video. She has a nest and the two eggs just hatched a few days ago. Check it out here.

We read this book (I was short on letter H books!)

I printed out these super cute color matching cards from 1+1+1=1, check them out here. Jimmy just loves them, but we are working on him actually matching them instead of just playing with them.

That about sums it up! Hope you enjoyed reading about our week.

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H is for Hippo

Another foam letter craft! Go me!

Materials:

• Gray or white foam sheet or construction paper (or any color you want really!)
• black & white foam or construction paper scraps
• Scissors
• Googly eye
• Glue
• Gray crayon if you are using white foam 

 How to make the Letter "H" Hippo

1. Have your little one color the foam sheet gray if you are using white foam.
2. I outlined a capital H onto a sheet of white foam (colored gray) - I just used the scissors to make an impression and then cut it out. You could also trace a letter H onto the foam or paper with a pen.
3. Cut out a circle or oval for the body and a head shape (I made the H on half a sheet of large foam and cut the extra pieces out of the other half). I just free handed them and cut them out.
4. Cut out 8 toes from the white foam scraps (flip over the gray colored scraps if you did it that way) and a little tail from the gray colored foam.
5. Glue the body onto the H. Then glue on the head, tail and everything else as pictured.
6. Add the googly eyes and you have your cute letter H hippo!

Tot School - Letter "G"

 

Jimmy is 27 months old

Alright!I am getting my post up earlier this week, yay me!! ;-)

Last week we worked on the Letter G. Here is what we did:

Letter G on Starfall.com

Letter G Giraffe. I came up with this, I am so proud of myself lol. Jimmy loves giraffes so I really wanted to make a letter G into one. Turned out it was really easy and it came out so cute (if I do say so myself). And it was one of the better foam letter crafts because Jimmy could actually do a lot of it on his own. He put all the spots on himself. If you need instructions to make one, check out my post here.

 We made a Garden with his sticky foam flowers and critters. He is really into stickers right now so he had a blast.

We read some "Letter G" books:

I finally got out some pasta and containers and let Jimmy play with those. He was entertained for a long time!

We worked on Jimmy's bowling skills...

I finally made these Bottle Top Name cards from 1+1+1=1. Jimmy LOVES them! I made 3 so far - Jimmy, Mommy and Daddy. He has been doing very well with them (though for this photo he wanted to just line the lids up, isn't that the way it goes lol!). I am going to make more with words to go along with the letter of the week, just need to get more lids!

Hope you enjoyed Letter G week. See you next week for fun with the Letter H!!

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