Tot School: Alphabet (continued)

Today at Tot School we continued learning about letters of the alphabet.  We practiced singing the “ABC song” several times as we played with puzzles and alphabet games.   

We enjoyed tracing letters and doing mazes in our folder workbooks and learning how to identify uppercase letters with our dot markers.  We practiced our cutting and pasting skills by making a spiral snowman out of a paper plate.   

First time using scissors - Great job!!!

Carefully putting the ribbon on the snowman's hat

"My snowman needs feet!"

We also read several great books including “Dr. Suess ABC” and “Winnie the Pooh A to Z”. Our tasty snack was bananas, goldfish crackers, and raisins & cranberries.

 

Tot School: Alphabet Letters

Today at Tot School we learned about the letters of the alphabet.  We enjoyed playing with alphabet puzzles and learning how to identify letters with our bingo dot markers.   

Our youngest student colored "A is for Airplane" in his letters coloring book

We practiced tracing letters and shapes in our folder workbooks.  A fun craft activity we did was making a caterpillar.   

We also read several great books including “A is for Airplane” and “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom”.  We sang the “ABC Song” and also sang along with a video clip of “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” and “Phonics Song”. 

Our snack was bologna and cheese that we cut letters out of with cookie cutters.  We also ate some yummy graham cracker snacks and fresh blueberries and apples.  We practiced spelling our names out of cooked spaghetti noodles but I think they enjoyed eating them more than making letters.   

The babies even enjoyed playing with the fridge phonics singing letters.

Tot School: Shapes

Today at Tot School our theme was shapes.  The kids got to try out their new dry erase activity books and practice their fine motor skills like tracing their name and drawing lines.  They were enjoying their new activity books so much that we lost track of time!

We had to rush to get the snack ready while they did their arts and crafts activity.  We had fun with gluing shapes and matching them during arts and crafts time.  Our snack was an assortment of tasty shapes: cracker and banana circles, cheese squares, triangle corn chips, crescent pears, rectangle grahams, and oval baby tomatoes.

The kids enjoyed playing with shapes puzzles and learning how to sort cards with pictures of different shaped objects.  We also read a great book about shapes and the kids could hardly keep from jumping up to point out the shapes they found on each page.

    Some fun activities we did were jumping on pillow squares and gathering up foam shapes.  The kids were excited about picking up the shapes as fast as they could.  That wasn’t the original object of the game (shape recognition) but was fun nonetheless!  Janet just kept throwing the foam shapes out of the bowl as quickly as she could and they kids kept gathering them by the handful.  We also sang some shapes songs as we played (Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star was a favorite).  I didn't capture the excitement of that game with my camera, but trust me, it was a hit!  Next week...LETTERS