Tot School: O is for Ocean

Kayleigh is 38 months

This week we worked on the letter Oo.  We used a lot of Confessions of A Homeschooler’s O is for Octopus printables.   I decided to expand the octopus theme to ocean because we live Atlantic coast.  She had a lot of fun and asked to do extra school several times.
Here she is working on her fine motor skills by tracing the lines.   I made this to go along with our ocean theme.  I made an “easy” version with just straight lines and an “advanced” version with more complicated tracing.  She did both but wasn’t very cooperative with the “advanced.”  By then she just wanted to scribble. 
You can download them here and here. 

She did some gem spooning and whale eraser tonging into our beach themed ice tray.  The tongs came from a kids cooking set that I got at IKEA.

Her favorite activity with this tray was feeding her “ugly baby” cereal. LOL

She sorted objects according to day or night time activities.  I made the mat and I got the sorting cards from Hubbard’s Cupboard.

No letter study would be complete with out a magnet page and letter matching from Confessions of a Homeschooler.


She worked in her Kumon Let’s Color and Let’s Fold books.  This was her first time using the folding book and she thought it was great fun.


She choose her Mega Blocks during free choice.  She built a tower for her Rapunzel, Flynn Rider, and Pascal dolls.  She loves those things. LOL

I made an Ocean Bingo game and she beat sissy twice.

Her many instruments are always a favorite activity.

Sissy’s butterflies for science started hatching and she was fascinated.  Here she is trying to feed them with a baby bottle. LOL

Later she tried to catch them with her net. LOL

She said she wanted to touch one but quickly changed her mind.
Our new sensory bin has a garden theme.

It contains:

Black Beans for dirt
Plastic Bugs ($ store)
Shovel and Rake ($ store)
Watering Can ($ store)
Gardening Gloves ($ Store)
Fake Flowers (AC Moore)
Stones ($ Store)
Vase (plastic cup $ store)

To say that she loved it is an understatement.    I’m not sure I did.  Wood floors, beans EVERYWHERE.  I put down a large blanket the next time but she worked around it.  Sigh…

She made an Ocean Animal color book from 1+1+1=1.

She also did octopus patterning,  coloring, and counting from Confessions of a Homeschooler. 

We rounded out our week with a bike ride along the Atlantic ocean.

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Tot School: The One with Yet Another Incident

Kayleigh is 38 months

It was a light week for Tot School this week.  Kayleigh was not really interested in anything beyond our new sensory bin and our ressurection egg activities.  

Our new sensory bin...

Easter grass, plastic eggs, bouncy egg balls, little egg koosh balls, Easter erasers, pastel pom poms, felt Easter basket.  Mainly from Target dollar spot and the Dollar Tree

She started hiding the bouncy eggs for her sister

She hid them in the same spot every time. LOL

She decided the grass was hair and started brushing it

All of the resurrection egg activities game from 2 Teaching Mommies.  I love them.  Here our some of her favorites.

Day 1 Jesus enters Jerusalem

Coloring Page

Roll and Count Game

Day 2 Jesus Betrayed for silver coins

Coloring page

Counting thirty coins

Day 3 The Cup~This was a really cute lesson on
how our sin makes us look "ugly" to God

And how Jesus washed our sins away.  

We went on a field trip with friends to a couple of museums this week.  Field trips are generally boring for poor Kayleigh as they are geared toward her sister and they involve Mackenzie's friends.  Poor Kayleigh's life revolves around sissy's activities a little to often.  Here's a few shots of her making the best of another incredibly boring situation.

She finally found somebody her own age to play with. LOL

And if a boring day with her sister's friends weren't bad enough, she spent the evening at the ER.  Again.    Kayleigh and Mackenzie were playing tickle fight or something and we thought she broke her wrist.  Just a bad bruise and a slight sprain.   I'm expecting CPS to show up any day now.

And that was poor Kayleigh's week.  We're going to hold off on our normal Tot School stuff again this week and just do our Easter activities.   Hopefully the poor girl will survive without a trip to the ER.

Opps!  I forgot about Kayleigh's first trip to the circus.  The highlight of her week.  And her arm was feeling better by then.  =o)

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