Tot School 4/26 - 4/30

This week we worked on the letter B....

using our Geoboard.

Handwriting sheets
(notice how she liked to go back and color in the part on the b's!)

Practicing writing numbers

Blowing Blue Bubbles . . .

. . . which of course turned into 'Can I give my baby a bath? She's really dirty.' :)

We had our friends Maya and Sean over on Tuesday. I think Riley really enjoyed being the oldest one and succumbing to their little ideas. Like being tied up!

Megs loves having a baby around and was always RIGHT there to get whatever was needed - diapers, wipes, food, blankets, binky. You name it and she was on it 10 steps ahead of you.

While Sean took his nap the girls did a Butterfly art project. I didn't get a close up picture of one but they just rolled up pieces of tissue paper and glued it to their butterflies.

We had a fun but super busy week. Megan also got to play with her 2 cousins, Katie and Mikayla one day while I went to a dr. appt. The 3 of them had grandma & grandad wrapped around their little fingers. They made banana bread & jello together, watched Dora and played outside for awhile. Grandma tried to get all 3 down for a nap but Megan told her that her eyes were broken and they couldn't close. ;)

Tot School 4/19 - 4/23

C is for Caterpillar

We started the week out by ending our 1st camping trip of the year.

Lacing card caterpillar -
Megan has a new found love for lacing!

Patterns with colored caterpillars

Graphing caterpillars

I gave her the option of gluing fuzzy balls or doing the bingo dobbers and she wanted the balls. But then got bored.

We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and as I read, she laced the appropriate items onto a lacing string. We did this many times during the week!

Pom Pom caterpillar

Monday:
We also had a lot of fun going to the zoo on Monday. I forgot my camera at home so sadly I don't have any pictures to share. It was a great day for the zoo as it wasn't too rainy out and not many people. Megan did get the poop scared out of her by a peacock that was blocking our path and looked ready to fight!

Tuesday:
Megan enjoyed her swim class at the YMCA. Then we came home to work on our tot school stuff.

Wednesday:
We went to a play date at our friend Lisa and Jadelyn's house with the Woodinville Mom's Club. Lots of snacks were consumed and she enjoyed playing with all the other little ones. :)

Later our friends Maya and baby Sean came over for a few hours. They loved playing in the backyard, making bead bracelets and playing with little Sean.

Thursday:
Our neighbor's Christine and Isaiah came over to try baking some sprout bread. We ended up not being able to find the sprout flour so we used coconut flour and made bread, honey muffins, and blueberry muffins. The kids had fund with the marble run I set up for them and they liked playing with the playdoh.

Friday:
Megan and I had a shopping day. I had to get 2 b-day presents and went to spend some of my b-day money at Michaels (ended up getting a cool sticker maker - thanks Julie!!). Then we had a nice girly lunch at a cafe before heading to Old Navy to find me some jeans.

Tot School 4/5 - 4/9

We didn't do Tot School this week since Riley was out on Spring Break. I figured we deserved a Spring Break from Tot School too! :)

Here are a few pictures I snapped of the girls this past week:

My mom & I took them to St. Edwards park. It was so stinkin' cold out and it eventually started raining and I had to call it quits. They got to play for about an hour but Riley was bummed because there were lots of cool walking trails to explore but being the hour it was I knew Megan would want to be carried.

This place had the most amazing play structure. It was GIGANTIC!!!

We played hide and seek and I caught them both ducked down behind a bench. :)

Megs playing some music.

Afterwards we went to The Village Bean at County Village. The kids love this place as they can have hot cocoa and sit at little tables and chairs and there's lots of cool things for them to do there. They have a huge magnet wall, a play kitchen, many toys, and a reading nook.

Riley played her first softball game of the season. I am so amazed at how much these girls know their stuff this year. It's a huge step up from T-Ball!!

My serious batter. :)

Having a snack outside while listening to music.

Dave found a birds nest when he was taking the cover off our travel trailer. Sadly there was no where close for him to put it where neighborhood cats or our dog couldn't get it. He had to put it in a tree about 50 feet away. I just hope the momma bird accepts it and continues to care for them. She was not happy!!!

Tot School 3/29 - 4/2

Letter of the week -

N is for Nest

Pre-writing skills:

Practiced matching lowercase and uppercase letters:

Worked on repeating patterns:

Bingo dobbers for N:
Art Projects

She picked cherry blossoms from the ground outside and then glued them to a tree I drew. I still don't understand why she glued them all to the trunk of it rather than the branches?! I even showed her a tree outside with blossoms on it but she had to do it her own way. :)

Sponge painted bunnies

Used a bath sponge to paint an Easter egg. She loved mixing the colors all up!

In the Kitchen
Birds Nests

We crushed up shredded wheat biscuits and then mixed them with melted chocolate & peanut butter. Then added Whopper eggs in the nests.

Bunny rabbit pancakes

Easter S'mores!

Mmmm, they were tasty but oh so very sweet!

Easter Activities
The neighborhood had an Easter egg hunt so we attended since the weather decided to be nice and hold off on the rain. The kids are SO fast at getting those eggs, I think it lasted all of 10-15 minutes for 3 yards worth of eggs.

And of course we had to dye eggs! Actually this year we did 2 rounds of it, 1 at home and 1 at Uncle Chad's house. Megan was very patient in waiting for them to be done but she was very impatient always wanting to check on the color every 5 seconds.

These are at home:

At Chad & Rachel's:

Apparently there was a raw one in there?!

So pretty!

Check out 1+1+1=1 for more Tot School activities.
Also check out Confessions of a Homeschooler for the printable activities I used.