Monday, February 22, 2010

Tot School - Week 1



Tot School
D is 19 months old

I came across Tot School as I was looking for activities for D last week and have decided to join in the fun. Last week's theme was winter. We focused on snow and penguins, though D still doesn't really understand that snow is cold. Darn South Florida winters! Actually I would love to be able to play in the snow with her, but for D "snow" was packing peanuts.
She enjoyed finding things in the snow, some snowflake matching cards and her Little Einsteins friends. And enjoyed putting them back in, until show found a better game to play.  She thought it was far more fun to get in with the snow than just use her hands to search through it.


D made her snow picture.  (See my previous post.)

D then made a penguin puppet.  She liked coloring the bag and gluing the penguin parts to the bag. 
D has started making me crazy by tilting her head and saying "cheese" every time she sees me trying to take a picture.  

And of course we finished this project by pulling the pieces off again.  I think the only part left today is the head (which I helped her glue on).

We wrapped up our "learning" about snow with our Muffin Tin Meal.



Real World

I am one of those moms who believes that kids are meant to get messy. When I taught Early Childhood, the parents knew that their kids would get messy in my class because I knew that they were being productive and having a good time too. For some reason with D, I am okay with finger-painting, and even when she spills all of the "snow" out of the bucket. But, I have been hesitant to give her yogurt since she started insisting on using a spoon by herself. Now I do give her a spoon for ice cream or macaroni and cheese and other things that won't make a big mess if they fall off. This week she had some yogurt on her own. I think it was a learning experience for both of us!

Check out 1+1+1=1 to see what other people were doing this week.

5 comments:

  1. Looks like a fun week! You can have some of my snow ;-) I still dont like to give my son a spoon with his yogurt. He is pretty neat until he is done then he makes a HUGE mess :-P

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  2. Love the yogurt, my tot loves to fingerpaint with his food too hehe

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  3. Just found your blog, luv it! Some great ideas! My twin 5 year olds and I have theme months . We have plenty of snow here in Illinois, ha ha, so we studied the rainforest last month. Next is Ireland!

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  4. She was pretty good with the spoon at first, then she decided to use her fingers instead. Then we had yogurt falling off the spoon and the fingers!

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  5. She is so cute! Looks as if you and your beautiful little girl had a fun week. Thanks for stopping by my blog, btw love your name - I have a website selling baby goodies called Jolly Mommy!

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