One Little Love Bug

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Love Bug's a "reader" :)

A friend of mine told me about an awesome learning program called Preschool Prep last fall. At the time, it wasn't something that we could do, and I put it in the back of my mind hoping to add it to our school curriculum soon. A few months later, she posted a video of her little darling reading all 45 sight words...at 18 months. (I know, right??!!) It was that moment that I decided we needed to hop on the band wagon.
This is the whole DVD set. It includes letters, numbers, letter sounds, sight words, etc.

If you don't want the entire set, you can also get just the sight words, which is what we did, along with the cards

We will also be purchasing the books, digraph and blends DVD's. If I had known about this great program when Love Bug was younger-- and she didn't know her letters and sounds already, I would have bought the whole set. It's a great deal to just get everything.

Here is Love Bug, reading her words.

We are so proud of her and more importantly, Love Bug is VERY proud of herself!

Pirate Tot School

Love Bug is currently 36.5 months old

This week we had plans for a different theme, but we had to switch it to work with our field trip. We decided last minute to do Pirate. ARRRRRR!!!! I'm so happy we did. It's one of my favorite weeks so far. Love Bug had a blast, and so did all her friends (AND even Jedi-- who played with Love Bug after his school a few days.)

I made pirate hats for all the kiddos with my Silhouette (*LOVE*)

The tots watched Jake and the Neverland Pirates (Disney JR) while we waited for everyone to arrive.

We did our Do-a-dot letter P and Pirate from Here

We played with our treasure chest counting game that I made- a knock off of THIS great game. I bought the chests from Oriental Trading. In our version, each box has a number on it and you fill it with that number of jewels. I bought the jewels as Michaels.

We practiced our fine motor skills by hooking "R's"!!

I made hooked hands out of a plastic cup and foil wrapped around a pipe cleaner.

I cut out the letter R for all the tots and placed them in an upside down ice tray to be the waves of the ocean. The tot's hooked their R's...over and over again. This was one of Love Bug's favorite activities.

We played "Captain says"

We practiced balance by "walking the plank"

We has a super cute pirate snack (thanks RJ)

Then we played "Roll and Sail". I made these cute pirates ships with my silhoutte :)

Each tot had one a nd a cup with a die in it. My cups and die were from the game Pirates Dice.

I places tape on the floor, about a foot or so apart, from one side of the room to the other. There was a treasure chest at the end, which is where the pirates were headed. Each tot with the help of their mom, would roll the die, count the dots on their die and move that many lines. They all played until they reached the treasure.

Love Bug played this for the next two days. She LOVED it!

We went on a treasure hunt, with the tots reading a map and finding the land marks to get to the treasure. I made telescopes for the tots with wrapping paper rolls cut down and covered with foil. I also made a simple map for each tot using brown construction paper. Wrinkle and char the edges a bit (Confession: one of them caught on fire and I had to toss it in the sink and hose it down with water. :)

X marks the spot!

We glued pirate clothes on a pirate.

It was a great pirate week!!

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Dental Health Tot school

Love Bug is currently 36 months old

Hurray for happy teeth! One thing that Love Bug LOVES to do is brush her teeth. She was very excited about school this week.

We talked a lot about teeth and how we need to take care of them. Love Bug is really interested in losing a tooth and having the tooth fairy come. Jedi has been visited a lot lately from the tooth fairy, and LB is feeling left out. :(

We made our own set of teeth out of a red paper plate, glue and marshmallows