Tot School – Christmas Part 3

- Adam is 37 months old -

Sigh….so much to do, so little time. I had so much more planned and prepared than what we actually did but ‘tis the season for busy schedules I guess. On the bright side, I’ll have a lot of things ready to go next Christmas! So, for the past 2 weeks, this is what we did for Tot School:

The following 2 printables are from Confessions of a Homeschooler’s Preschool Pack

Size Ordering Candy Canes

Ornament CountingAdam counted the ornament on the tree and placed the corresponding numbered star on top. He easily counts and knows the numbers 1-7 and 8 and 10. The only thing he had a little trouble with was double counting or missing some of the ornaments because they were rather small.

Coloring a Nativity scene

In this picture he is pointing out that the Shepherd is signing “milk” because the baby Jesus wants some milk.

I got these Christmas erasers at the dollar store and we played a matching game
And I attempted to do patterns with him…he still isn’t quite grasping patterns
Then he lined them up all…
Stood them all up…
And then had the reindeer give sleigh rides to each pair of erasers using the cart from our Little People Nativity.
He played with them for a while and would say, “Go reindeer go! Go reindeer go!” and then “They’re back to the North Pole!” when they finished their ride.
One day we made Christmas trees out of felt and added sequins and glitter. I thought he’d really like the glitter, but he was much more interested in gluing the sequins on!

For our Family Home Evening treat one night we made Gingerbread cookies
The funny thing is that neither Nat or I even like gingerbread but apparently the kids did! I think next year we’ll stick to plain old sugar cookies.

I am looking forward to the new year and getting back into using Before Five in a Row for weekly themes. And after we finish that, it’s on to a Letter of the Week type at-home preschool. I’m excited!

I’m also excited (yet exhausted at the thought) that Abby will be 1 in just over a month so I want to begin planning and putting things out specifically for her to do as Tot School. Adam has been doing more preschoolish things for a long time now so I’m excited to research and plan things more along the lines of the actual Tot School theory.

I’m taking this coming week to plan and prepare our Before Five in a Row themes for the next few weeks so hopefully we can begin a unit the following week. Sometimes I wonder why I do this to myself. It’s so much work!