Tot School - Gg & Hh

Tot School - Gg is for Green, Go and Gumball

Tot School - Hh is for Hippos, Hermit Crabs and Heroes

Owen and Eli: 40 months old

The Letter Gg kinda got lost in the shuffle. I had a hard time coming up with words that went with Gg, so we just did a couple crafts and called it a day. The gumball activity was so easy - just draw the outline and then use do-a-dots for the gumballs. 

After Christmas and all of our Christmas activities, we were all ready to get back to a normal routine. We learned all about hermit crabs and watched YouTube videos on how they change shells and what they eat. I found the handprint craft here, the letter hunt here, and the color-by-number here. I wasn't sure how the color-by-number would go, and quite honestly, it didn't go well, but it's kind of fun to see where they start as a benchmark for the future. Same goes for the super hero page on drawing circles and x's - NOT a huge success! They were really good at finding the right magnet to fill in the blank. Those activities both came from here. We had read several books from the library about hippos and horses, but I forgot to take a picture of them!

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Tot School - Gg

Tot School - Theme - Gg

Owen & Eli: 30 months old

We're back on track! We covered the letter Gg this week and I think we had a lot of fun with different types of activities. We started off with Starfall.com so the boys could see the capital and lowercase G's and then headed to the library. We read Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Gorilla, Curious George books and Green Eggs and Ham (in honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday!). One of the highlights of their week was making Green Eggs out of white chocolate and M&Ms. Super easy and a yummy little snack to go along with the story.

I made outlines of the capital G and lowercase g and gave the boys cookie cutters of a G and a Giraffe to paint with. After doing this, I read a few other blogs about not introducing the /j/ sound that a 'g' can make (as in giraffe) and instead focusing on the 'ga' sound as in gumball. I think that makes sense and I'll probably be more careful with that in the future when they're closer to reading.

One of the art projects that turned out pretty cool was grape painting. I cut out a cereal box to give them a tray to contain the paint and a few different colors to roll the grapes in. It turned out great!

I found this activity here. Painting is quickly becoming one of the boys' favorite art activities!

This was their first time trying 'pre-writing' worksheets. Confessions of a Homeschooler has them for every letter, so we'll be practicing a lot more in the future. They were big on coloring, not that big on following the dotted lines. I love how the pictures show how Eli is a leftie and Owen is a rightie : ) It'll be nice to look back at these pictures in a few weeks to see how their 'writing' has improved!

We're on to Letter Hh! Click here for ideas from other Tot Schooling moms!