After taking a week off from tot school at home, we were back at it this week. Connor was very much into learning this week and even asked to do tot school a couple times. This week we focused on the Letter E and the Color Purple. I haven't been really good at doing it in the past, but each day I tried to focus on a theme. Some Letter E foods that we ate this week were eggs, enchiladas, and edimame. Some toys we played with were play eggs, toy elephant, googly eyes, and envelopes (I put a lot of the activity pieces in them for Connor to take out).
We read these books to end tot school and at night.
On Monday, we did tot school in the afternoon after lunch time. Connor was happy to get back into our routine. Our theme for today was elephants.
1) I introduced Letter E using a laminated flashcard and fabric letter E. We took turns tracing the Letter E with our finger.
2) Connor took out the elephant body parts (eyes, trunk, and nose) that I had already cut out from an envelope to make an elephant. I had him tell me where the eyes and ears went since they start with E. Then we glued them onto the elephant along with the nose.
3) We made Connor's weekly hand print. This week it was an elephant. I got the idea from Mommy Minutes.
4) We read Ella The Elegant Elephant by Carmela and Steven D'Amico.
1) I introduced the color purple using a flashcard that I laminated. I printed it from here.
2) Connor colored a coloring sheet that had pictures of objects that are all purple.
3) Connor really likes to glue, so I had him glue purple tissue paper to construction paper.
4) We played with purple play-doh.
5) I read Grandma's Purple Flowers by Adjoa J. Burrowes. I was in a rush while picking books for the week at the library and didn't go prepared with a list. I just happened to see this book and thought it was perfect based on the title. It actually ended up being really sad and the grandma died in the book.
1) Connor colored his Letter E is for egg coloring sheet.
2) I found an egg matching activity with different patterned eggs from Powerful Mothering that I thought Connor would enjoy. I printed out two copies and cut out the eggs on one sheet and left the other sheet as it was when I printed it. I hid the egg cutouts in plastic eggs and let Connor take them out of the eggs. Then he matched the cutout eggs to the matching one on the worksheet.
3) Connor used the same cutouts to fill his Letter E that I printed from here.
4) Connor loved playing with his eggs so much, so I had him match them to their same color silicon muffin holder. He also pretended to dye his eggs in water that I poured into the holders.
5) We read The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett.
1) Connor did Do-A-Dot letters for the Letter E in uppercase and lowercase using a stamp to fill in the dots.
2) I printed out small and big Earth's. I folded a paper in half and wrote big and small on opppsite sides. Then Connor glued all the small Earth's to the small side and all the big Earth's to the big side. I got the Earth printable from here.
3) Connor painted Earth. I cut out a circle on blue construction paper to represent water and let Connor paint green land on it.
4) Connor painted another sheet of paper just for fun.
5) He wasn't done quite yet and started putting sticker dots on another Do-A-Dot Letter E.6) We read Energy Island by Allan Drummond. I couldn't find an Earth book in time, so this had to do.
1) With my help, Connor made an emu out of a paper plate, construction paper, and a googly eye. I got the idea from here.
2) We read Edward the Emu by Sheena Knowles.
In the picture on the right, he was jumping up and down yelling "Emu!"
Connor's beautiful artwork from this week:
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