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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Weekly Wrap-Up: Going Buggy

School is going well and winding down for the year.  Spelling is finished, grammar, and writing will be done next week. Math the week after.   A few more weeks for history, read alouds, and science.  Ahhh…
We’ve finished WW2 and have moved on to the Korean and Vietnam wars and the Cold War.  Mackenzie is currently reading Bruchko, an awesome story about a missionary in South America,  and our read aloud is The Miracle on Maple Hill.
Our biggest excitement is science.  Our painted ladies emerged from their chrysalis’.  




We released them but one was not “well” so we put him in some flowers.  Sadly, he came to an untimely end thanks to some birds.  Mackenzie now curses all birds except the ones on her dinner plate.  LOL
Our lady bugs made it to the adult stage too!  They now live in our garden protecting our veggies from aphids.

Nothing to report with our praying mantis egg case but there have been changes with the monarch caterpillars.  The bad news is that four of them died.  =o(  But one made his chrysalis.  It such a lovely shade of green.  Much prettier then the painted lady ones.

We ended our week with a bike ride on the board walk.  Guess what we saw there? 


Lady bugs!!!  LOL
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Tot School~Letter Nn

Kayleigh is 38 months old

 

This week we focused on the letter Nn.  Unless otherwise noted, our activities came from Confessions of A Homeschooler. 

I ordered Kayleigh a subscription to High Five (Highlights for little guys) and she did her first Hidden Pictures in it.  Boy did she love that.  She was asking for more.

Sorting Big N and Little n (COAH)

I loved the Big/Little letter stamping activity from 1+1+1=1 toddler printables.  I just knew that Kayleigh would love them.  So I ordered a set of capital and lowercase  letter stamps.  Unfortunately we’re quite a few letters ahead of Carisa, so I had to make my own printable for it. 

But I was right, she loved doing it.  And she was good about stamping the letter that I called out.  Bonus!

“Spelling” NEST with out bottle cap letters.  (COAH)  Rapunzel, Flynn Rider, and Pascal from Tangled helped. lol

I bought this metal bird picks (for gardening) in the Target $ spot and used them for a small spaces activity.  Then I added a foam block to use as a “nest.”  She’s played with that everyday.  It was by far her favorite activity of the week.

Her last spin with our Easter sensory bin. I had added a stuffed bird to it so she could use it as a nest but she still uses the grass as hair.    I’m so ready to get rid of that Easter grass.  LOL

Mackenzie is studying insects in science and Kayleigh is very interested in them too.  Here she is using her magnifying glass to observe the Painted Lady chrysilis.

Here she is conducting her own “nature study” while waiting during sissy’s field hockey practice.

Our Easter

And that was our week.  Be sure to click the Tot School button at the top of the page to see what the other tots are up to.