Halloween Tot School

Love Bug is 32 months old

This week for tot school we did a Halloween theme!!

Love Bug and I (along with her older sister) went to the local orchard and did a hay ride and pumpkin patch.

School this week was a lot of fun stuff. We did a really casual unit. Puzzles are always a favorite.

 Love Bug played with the build a monster several times this week. We picked it up from Michael's at some  point in time. It was meant to be stickers you put on him, but I mounted them on paper and laminated the pieces, and added velcro so it's reusable.

 We put the alphabet in order with a few different alphabet sets this week. Magnets, blocks, and cards. We even started working on spelling Love Bug's (real) name. I was totally blown away when she repeated it to her dad later in the evening.

 Love Bug absolutely adores playdough. Every afternoon when Jedi got home from school they played with it together.

 We made pumpkin shaped pbj sandwiches and made them into jack-o-lanterns.

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.)

All the tots brought little pumpkins with them this week. I cut out jack-o-latern faces making the eyes and noses triangles, and all the mouths were different letters. I used adhesive felt for it. My "bright idea" to peel the backs and put them on wax paper for easy removal---was not so bright. It stuck so bad! Mount on plastic or foil instead. (glad I could figure that out for you so you wouldn't have to make that mistake ;)

Love Bug chose the "U" mouth. 

 The tots with their pumpkins

 One got away.....

We practiced the letter "H" with our do-a-dot letters.

Two words: table scatter

If you aren't familiar with them, the you're missing out. Table scatter is the new confetti for parties. All the cuteness without the microscopic mess. I have found them in ALL sorts of fun shapes, colors, etc. These were from the Target $1 zone. I hit up Michael's, Joann, etc after holiday and seasons end to pick up clearanced items to use in school. 

These pumpkins fit perfectly in the circles AND are great for sensory boxes too! 

 We made ghosts out of footprints

We practiced trick or treating- especially learning to say "Thank You".

We played "pass the cookie jar". We passed the jar while counting "1,2,3". The person who was number "3" got to pick a cookie. Next round we picked two cookies, and last round we picked three cookies. Each time we counted as we picked and passed.

And we shared our fun game of catching "falling" leaves!

It was such a fun week of learning!!