Tot School - Jj

Tot School - Jj is for Jungle Animals

Owen and Eli are 40 months old

Other than jungle animals, the letter J wasn't all that exciting of a letter for us, but it still worked out great because we spent a lot of time on writing and coloring letter J printables this week. Owen used the correct grip for his marker too, which was a huge accomplishment! We tried color-by-numbers again and I think it went better than last week. They really seemed to understand the matching of the colors with the upper and lower case letters and the finished product ended up looking vaguely like a jack-o-lantern. Score! : )

The letter maze is from here, the color by letter is from here, the J is for Juggling Elmo page is from here, and the Letter J writing practice is from here.

We read lots of books about Jungle animals and then they chose the animals they liked the best for our J is for Jungle Animals paper plate craft. We made bananas out of play-doh for all the monkeys we found around the house too. Then we used the counting cards from here to match the items to the corresponding numeral and the boys got some practice squeezing the glue themselves.

On to Letter Kk... have any good ideas for us? To see what other Tot Schoolers are doing, check out 1+1+1=1.

Tot School - Jj

Tot School - Theme - Jj

Owen & Eli: 31 months

Letter Jj was a lot more fun than I originally thought! We focused on Jj is for Jungle, Jellyfish, jellybeans and jigglers! We rolled snakes out of play-doh to form J's and then added jungle animal stickers to decorate the page, filled J cutouts with jelly beans and make jello jigglers in the shape of J (actually just a backwards candy cane cookie cutter!) We did a lot of color sorting this week too - I'm sure the boys were so interested in playing this game because they always got to eat jelly beans at the end! As for jungle animals, we made paper plate tigers and elephants with paint and construction paper and used our 3 piece jungle animal puzzle to match up the animals with the Little People animals we have who live in the jungle. I found this jelly fish craft here, but we used colored sugar instead of glitter. A) I'm not a big fan of glitter and B) I don't have any glitter. The contact paper was tough to stick together after they added all the sugar (probably too much!) so we had to staple the edges to keep it closed, but it saved me a trip to the store : )

Next week we're learning Kk is for Kites, Kings and Kangaroos... should be fun! To see what other Tot Schoolers are doing, click over to 1+1+1=1!