Beachy Orange Bean and Label Play

~Bella is 33 months~

~Caiden and Ada are 16 months~

I wanted Bella to start working more on puzzles, but I felt like she didn't understand the concept of puzzles very well yet.  So I downloaded this awesome App that has tons of puzzles in it and she drags and puts it together!  I think after working on this for a little bit, we will be switching to real puzzles soon!

Then we recently went to the Beach, so we did a beach theme week.  Here she worked on patterning.  This is still difficult for her, so we will keep working on it!

Next we worked on color matching...

Waiting patiently :)

Then she did a color by number Starfish...

Then she worked on a which is different sheet...

What to do on a rainy day?  Get some beans out of the cupboard, find some shells and add in some spoons, ice cube trays and other little compartments.

After we finished up with beaches, it was onto more Fall themes.  So we first worked on the color Orange.  Bella had a sheet that she had to pick the pictures that are orange and color them.

I gave the twins a Winnie the Pooh coloring page, where they had to color the carrot.

We also worked on circles.  Bella practiced drawing circles...

The twins "shared" the chalk board and we worked on drawing circles also...

Bella drew circles on her chalkboard also...

We also had a time of painting...

Then another not so nice day for outside, I got some old address labels we can't use and some old papers in fun colors and essentially just let them do whatever they wanted.

The twins were very interested in getting the labels off and trying to stick them to the paper...

Bella liked pretending to make mail...

And we did get a little silly too :)

Resources:

http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.net/2011/06/ocean-theme-printables-more/

Disclaimer:

All photos of activities seen are just a moment in time in our day and the activity itself.  Don't be fooled, those happy smiles are not there the entire length of the activity.  We are real people here too, people who struggle with sharing, OCD, being tired, apathy and the like.  These photos are just to show what the activities are and a reminder to self of what we have done and where we have come.

Tot School - After the move!

~Bella is 32 months~

~Twins are 15 months~

So we did alot of iPad letter review the first week or two we were moved in.  She loves to work on this independently.

She recently has expressed GREAT interest in flash card work.  She asks almost daily if we can do our "Games" :)  

I have these cards from all over - Dollar Tree, given as gifts, Teaching, Walmart.

Here she is working on matching the number of objects on one card to the number card.

We got these from Nanna (who was a Kindergartner teacher).  She really likes these.  We sing the Leap Frog Letter Sound song with these cards.

Got these also from Nanna :) She is doing Count Matching again.











Then we worked on number order...

Then I got this "puzzle" from the thrift store.  She is matching big and little Letters.

She worked on writing her name some more.  This is getting boring to her so I will have to spice this up some how...

As for the twins they got the chance to color again with some dry erase crayons from Crayola...

Then we worked with lids and a wipe box again.  My guys LOVE to put things in boxes and such.

Sometimes I will just give them a regular toy to get them to be more focused and work on attention spans...

These are shower curtain rings that they are "threading" onto another toy we have.

My next Tot school post we will be back to more "normal" Tot school work.  With a special learning day with Nanna :)

Penguins, God made me and More!

This week for our Bible lessons, we did a review on creation - which you can find here.  The we talked about "God made me" and the the first sin.

So we first worked on what makes us special. To illustrate this  I had her make the faces of Bella on her play-do mat.  We talked about how God gave us a mouth to talk to God and eyes to read the Bible.  I then discussed with her the importance of obedience and how it can make us feel to obey and disobey.  We later reinforced feeling with and iPad App that had her work on feeling words.


Then we talked about the story of the first sin with Adam and Eve.  I got these story telling pictures that I colored and then would place in front of her as I told her the story.

She then colored those same pictures as a mini book and I retold the story and asked her questions about what each page was about.

Here we are working on color matching with magnetic pom poms.  She started to get a little bored with this one.










I have another sheet for pom pom that helps with squares.  And for some reason she like this sheet more than the color one.








Then we did some penguin themed activities. First we worked on size sequencing.  This is a more difficult concept for her and she had a hard time focusing for this one.

Then she had to match a colored bow to the colored word on the penguins belly.  She had lots of fun with this one.

Next we worked with number matching.  The penguins are hungry and she had to find which penguin had the correct number for how many dots were on the fish.

Then she enjoyed some reading and an iPad app that worked on words and letters.

So you may ask yourself, what have the twins been learning???

They have been learning the word "No" 

"Ada, No -  don't touch that"

"Caiden, Ada - No, No.."



"Caiden, No - That's Bella's breakfast"

Hehe :) I love this age of exploring :)