Tot School

Kayleigh is currently 18 months

This is was our first week of "planned" Tot School. I decided to try using themes, very loosely.

So our theme for this week was Farm Animals because Kayleigh is very into ducks, cows and sheep lately. Did you know that a cow says "boo!"? Me neither but Kayleigh's pretty certain that it does.

Here are some of our farm activities...

We danced with scarves to "Old Mc Donald"

Kayleigh has started showing some interest in letters, or "AB's" as she calls them. If you show her something with writing she'll shout "AB's!" So I'm gently introducting the letters to her.

We read Little Scholastic's Alphabet over and over and over. Or rather, we sang it.

We also played with the wood pieces from Handwriting without Tears. Mommy squeezed an "A" in there. Kayleigh noticed it and shouted "AB's" before destroying it. LOL


She can also "lip sync" the "AB's" like a pro. I'm trying to get a video of her doing this but she hasn't been cooperative.

We also did a few farm related "art activites". Although I think Kayleigh's favorite part of "art" is wearing sissy's old nightgown for a paint shirt. She wore it for 3 days in a row, even when we weren't doing art.

We used dot markers to dot "A".


We made a sheep using Kayleigh's handprint for legs and she stamped the sheep's body with Crayola's Tadoodles stamps in farm shapes.

We worked on shapes and colors using bean bags, puzzles and playing Hullabulloo.

Things Mommy learned...

That Kayleigh does not like "Tot School" in one "session". She likes to spread the fun throughout the day.