Tot School – Week 3

- Adam is 30 months -

The book we read this week was Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? by Nancy White Carlstrom. Adam loved it! I also checked out several other “Jesse Bear” titles and he loved all of those as well. Using the ideas in Before Five in a Row and Homeschool Share we….

Colored a red shirt and blue pants just like what Jesse Bear chooses to wear that day. I laid out a variety of colored pencils and asked Adam to find the red one and then the blue one. I thought he might revolt and want to color them whatever color (which would’ve been fine) but he happily chose to match it to what Jesse Bear was wearing.

Later, he colored them green as well. :)

He told me that he colored the buttons red. I’m noticing that he is beginning to color more with a purpose rather than just scribbling all over the page.

We made a “B” book (B for bear) and he used a glue stick to glue on other thing that started with “B”. He was a big fan of the glue stick!

In the book, Jesse Bear eats lunch (a very healthy lunch) so as we talked about the different healthy foods, Adam glued them onto a picture of a plate.

The hit of the week was this Melissa and Doug puzzle. I saw it on Amazon and knew I had to get it before we read Jesse Bear. He has played with this puzzle every day since I introduced it!

For our Tot School activities (you can learn more about Tot School and get lots of ideas from the blog 1+1+1=1) we did…

Aquatic Animals dominoes. He matched up all the jelly fish and then had fun lining the dominoes up.

Lots of play-doh.

He told me that this was a rainbow. How clever!

I want to work on number recognition a little, so I thought this would be a fun way to learn the numbers and also practice counting. I had to help him with this, although he chose to sort them into separate colors by himself.

After we counted, he wanted to sort the rest of the beads into colors but soon realized he didn’t have a space for black, blue, or orange so I got out the ice cube tray. He spent FOREVER sorted beads! He’d get them all sorted, then transfer them back into the egg carton, then back into the ice cube tray. He keeps asking to do it again so I think it’ll be an option again next week.

Hot or Cold? File Folder Game (from www.filefolderfun.com). He needed some help in the beginning to know what to do and also for me to explain some of the cards like volcano and igloo.

Another highlight of the week was swimming! I think I’ll be filling up this little pool many more times in the next couple of months!

I’m really enjoying doing Tot School and Before Five in a Row with Adam. I think the best part is the conversations we have while he’s coloring, gluing, or playing. He’s pretty hilarious with all the things he imagines and talks about.

Next up….Yellow Ball by Molly Bang (this book is out of print but I found it at my library).