Lovebug is 32 months old
This week Love Bug had fun with Apples and Leaves!!
We loved the apple unit we found Confessions of a Homeschooler and the Fall unit we found at
Homeschool creations. Both were great units.
We matched shapes on apple puzzle cards
We practice the letter "L" using oversized push pins and a cute "L" printable. We used a foam mat that has cork on one side for pushing the pins in.
Oversized pushpin. A new favorite. I found them at Walmart :)
We stamped the one that is different with our Do-a-dot stampers.....
Then Love Bug decided to stamp them all
We practiced direction...Love Bug's favorite was putting the leaf on the apple---"the apple is UNDER the leaf".
THEN WE HAD SOME REAL FUN!!
Inspired by this post
Her son was using a ball toy. I thought of using our Elefun game..but that didn't work so well. (she posted using an elefun later in the week, so I guess we were thinking alike)
But it was the most fun using a fan!
This went on for a good 20 minutes.
Love Bug decided to catch the leaves with the elefun nets. She didn't have any luck.
Tots Together
(Tots Together is a day each week a few parents of "home preschooled" tots get our kids together to socialize and practice being in a group setting while learning.)
We practiced the letters A and L with our magnets
and do-a-dots
We did size sequencing apples
We marble painted leaves. I cut out leaves with my silhouette sd and taped them to the pie pans
put the marble in paint (the big marbles work best)
and this is how they turned out! I have no idea why she wanted to stick them to her shirt for the picture.
We did apple stamping...which is like potato stamping. Cutting the apple horizontally makes the "star" in the center leave a great pattern.
We used the apple peeler-slicer-corer on our apples
I live in a forested area and was so looking forward to letting the tots play in the leaves. Then the forecast called for rain. The day before it rained, I collected a big pile of leaves in a garbage bag.
We brought in a tarp and an inflatable kid pool......
and had a blast!
I hid pretend apples in the leaves and they had to find them
Then they jumped and jumped and jumped some more!!
It was a happy week of tot school!!!!
I love that you brought the leaves inside!! That looks like so much fun!!
ReplyDeleteHi, I'm visiting from your link on tot school. We just did our L week but I think I'm going to have to keep our leaves another week and bring out the fan, looks so fun! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteWe are doing L this coming week. I had bought some satin leaves at our dollar tree store and was planning to put them in the elefun game too. Now I know if it doesn't work we can try the fan:). Love the kiddie pool in the house. I don't know too many mom like us that would do that. I always think... it all cleans up, so why not?
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