Tot School - Ii

Tot School - Ii is for Insects and Ice Cream

Owen and Eli: 40 months old

This week was so much more fun than I was expecting! I had a hard time coming up with words that went along with Ii, but we were on a roll as the week went on. I printed off capital and lowercase I's and gave the boys insect stickers to fill in the letters. Their personalities came through when Owen wanted to fill in all the white space and Eli wanted to stack as many stickers as possible on top of each other. The inchworm letter hunt and the letter outlines were both from here.

I can't find the link for the letter maze, but the color by number is from here. Both went better than they did last week : )

Our big art project for the week was making puffy paint ice cream cones. We mixed shaving cream, elmer's glue and paint together, then they spread it on the paper with their hands and they looked like ice cream when they dried. So fun! The clean-up wasn't even difficult, which I have to say was a small concern of mine : )

We only did a few of the ice cream printables from Mama's Monkey's, but the ones we did were pretty successful. They colored the cones the appropriate colors, matched the magnet letters with the uppercase and lowercase letters on the ice cream cones, and did some pre-writing practice too. They are both getting better at controlling their utensil movements and at holding the pen.

The crowning glory of the week was making ice cream from scratch. We had some friends over and all measured and mixed the ingredients, then watched the ice cream maker do its magic. So fun!

Other Tot Schoolers were busy this week too - check it out here!

Tot School - Ii

Tot School - Theme - Ii

Owen & Eli: 30 Months

We had some fun this week despite the fact that I was playing the role of a single parent while hubs was in Vegas for a work conference and the printer was out of ink so I couldn't print off any online materials. We made it work though! The end goal (identification of Capital I and Lowercase i) was achieved, so everything else was just for fun!

I saw this idea on this blog, but the original idea is from here. Make an igloo out of baby marshmallows! It was supposed to just be with white ones, but I didn't have any and I think the colored ones are more tasty : ) Looking back, I probably should have talked more about what an igloo actually is - but they didn't seem to care and were on board with making the project.

I froze alphabet letters in a tupperware container for them to break out too. I only put in A through I, the letters we've done so far, capital and lowercase. They loved this activity and kept asking me for more ice throughout the week. They used warm water and their tool bench tools mostly, and we able to find and match all the letters once they were free! Success!

We made inchworms out of toilet paper rolls too. I found the idea here and they really loved it! This is one of the first crafts that they were able to do most of themselves - they painted, added glue, added the eyes and strung through the antennae. All I had to do was cut the rings and staple them together. They turned out pretty cute too!

An of course, the Letter Ii wouldn't be complete without homemade ice cream!! We made chocolate and have been enjoying it every day since : )

On to the Letter Jj!