Tot School

Kayleigh is currently 19 months

We had an interesting week this week. Kayleigh was feeling particulary persnickety and that always makes for some excitement. LOL


Our theme for this month is "Fall", mainly some extras dealing with apples, pumpkins, and leaves. And I really want to focus on her colors. I hope to accomplish the latter with our much loved Mega Blocks.


She tends to be at her worst during big sis' first subject of the day, Bible. As soon as we bring out the Good Book, look out, here comes trouble. I thought I'd try giving her some "work" to do during this time. We're using Stick Figuring through the Bible for Mackenzie and Kayleigh is always trying to get into that too. So I put her at the table with her own "work". A coloring sheet pertaining to our topic.

Back to the drawing board, I guess. LOL

We tried out a a couple of new Tot Tools this week.

First I had her spooning autumn jewels into an autumn shaped ice cube tray. She really loved it the first day! She even tried to use it the manner that I had intended. Eventually she gave up on the spooning and started using her hands but I was very pleased. I think the spoon needs to wait a little longer.

By the end of the week she had her own uses for them. And they didn't include my ideas. LOL

I had a great video of her revamp but blogger isn't letting me upload it. =o(

The next thing we tried was pouring pom poms, or puffies as my girls call them, back and forth into cups. She like the puffies, she liked the cups, she had no interest in pouring them back and forth. Pouring all over the floor was great fun, however. She also spent time moving them by hand into the other cup.

We attempted lacing beads this week and they did NOT go over well at all. She made attempts for about 30 seconds and got frusterated. I tried to give her a hand which really cheesed her off. Next thing you know they're flying through the air. She didn't even want to build with them. We'll be putting those away for a while longer.

I brought out her Smart Shapes and Stackers which is one of her all-time favorite Tot School toys. She will play with this non-stop. Not only does she loves putting the pegs in the box and dumping them all over the floor, she even likes to play with them as they were intended. Very exciting! Plus we get to "learn" shapes and colors.

For her "project" this week, we made a red apple. I had her work on tearing paper again. This time I used tissue paper and she had no problems. So now I know she can tear tissue paper and books but not construction paper. =o) Then I spread glue on an apple print out and she stuck on the paper. Well, she stuck it on for a few minutes. Then the glue got on her fingers and she was horrified. End of project. LOL

Of course we had our weekly stint at The Little Gym. I brought my camera this week.

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Tot School

This week we worked on shapes and colors. We played with mega blocks, our shapes puzzle, instuments, read lots of books, and paid a visit to The Virginia Living Museum.


I didn't get a lot of pictures this week but here are a few.

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Tot School

Kayleigh is currently 19 months

Tot school this week was, shall we say, relaxed. LOL We had a field trip for big sis, warmer clothes to buy, and a last minute trip to Disney on Ice.

On the rare occasion that we were actually home we played outside, read books, and practiced numbers with our Bounce and Spin Pony. The pony was the only farm-related activity of the week. LOL

Our outside activities included chalk, swinging, sliding, and rocks. Kayleigh LOVES rocks. She holds them, hugs them, kisses them, and sometimes tries to eat them.

Kayleigh wasn't overly thrilled with our trip to Fort Wool. She enjoyed the boat ride over but declared the actual fort "sce-ee." (That's Kayleigh for scarey. LOL) She discovered the word scarey recently, how I don't know, and uses it frequently. Too frequently. You never know what's going to get the label. LOL

At anyrate, she would not allow her feet to touch the ground while we were at the fort. She did let me sit her on rocks and such so I could have brief reprieve from her weight.

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Tot School

Kayleigh is currently 19 months old

We had a lot of errands this week but we managed to fit in a few Tot School activities.

The peg stacker was the big hit of the week. She played with it every day.

Our only craft this week was a last minute addition. I had found some foam farm stickers at the Dollar General. You can't go wrong for only a $1. She also colored on her paper with crayons and markers. She was very interested in her name. She tried to copy mommy buy "tracing" her name with the pink crayon too.

We ended our week with a fun trip to Busch Gardens. We had perfect weather and no lines!

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Tot School

Kayleigh is currently 19 months

Well our third week of Tot School is behind us. While we didn't finishe all of our "planned" activities, we had lots of fun. We continued our farm theme and worked on our shapes and colors. Kayleigh's attention span was very short this week. She must have cabin fever because of all the rain that kept us in the house.

Be sure to check out what the other Tots are doing over at Carisa's.