Tot School–Valentine’s Day Theme

- Adam is 38 months old -

We had a fun week full of hearts and love!
We read a bunch of books from the library and from our own bookshelf.  I’ve decided that for us, the most important part of our Tot School time is reading.  I want to make it more of a priority.

Anyway, here’s what we did!

Before the week started, I found my Tot School idea list like this:That is the first time that Adam has purposefully “written” something.  I love his cute scribbles!

I had wanted to do this song several times, but we only did it once.  He liked it though!  It’s the B-I-N-G-O song only you spell out H-E-A-R-T.  I can’t remember where I found the song though.

A favorite activity was this Alphabet Hearts file folder game from File Folder Fun.  He has done this “game” twice this week and that’s only because I wouldn’t let him do it more when we had so many other things we could do!  I was very surprised that he knew 22 out of 26 lowercase letters.  The only ones he missed were b, d, l, and q.  Thank you LeapFrog Letter Factory!  I didn’t teach him any of that directly!

Also from File Folder Fun were these Achy Breaky Heart puzzles.
He only made it through 4 of these before losing interest.
From Making Learning Fun we did the following:

Conversation Heart Count Cards
He LOVED these!  We did them 3 times this week.
It was a great fine motor activity clipping the mini clips on the correct numbered square.

Do-a-Dot H is for Hearts page

Heart Mosaic Page
He put a conversation heart on each red circle

From 1+1+1=1’s Love Tot Pack we did:

Hearts in Shapes matching puzzles

Lovebug Matching game
We took turn drawing cards and finding the match

I turned the blank hearts into numbered hearts and Adam counted out conversation hearts to match the number

Other Activates:

Transferring heart shaped ice cubes with tongs

He then made himself some ice water…mostly just ice. :)

On another day, he used tongs to transfer pom-poms

One of Adam’s Valentine gifts from us was a Moon Dough set.
He loves it, however I don’t!  It is so messy!!

We did a bunch of art projects:

Stamping with V-day stamps

Valentine’s Day Collage

Cookie Cutter Stamping
(idea from Totally Tots)
This started out as cookie cutter stamping but quickly turned into painting with a paintbrush….then fingers….

and then hands.
Right about now I was thinking his painting was turning out really cute….

and then he smeared it all….oh well, Daddy still loved his Valentine!

Car Track Painting
(idea from Monkeyin’ Around)

Finally, for Family Home Evening we talked about loving our family members and then we made a Love Tree (idea from Ramblings of a Crazy Woman)

And sugar cookie for dessert!

Whew!  When I write it out it feels like we did a TON of stuff!
We’re headed off on a short vacation with my family while Nat (my hubby) is out of town on business so we won’t be doing any Tot School next week, although I’m taking a bunch of file folder games and activities to keep Adam occupied.

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