Tot School ~ First day with our new schedule

Posted on 23/03/2010 by Momma Jo

~Koko is 35 months old & Fifi is 13 months old~

I’ve reworked our tot school schedule and we started working according to that schedule today. We started the day with structured free play. I had never done this with the kids before and Koko absolutely loved it and seemed so much happier to play on his own this morning.

Messy Play ~ Water – he spent more than half an hour playing like this. He loved it.

Fifi playing with Mommy’s computer mouse

Koko and Fifi playing with the play dough and cookie cutters together

Fifi was eventually given her own set of cookie cutters to bang around. She kept taking the cutter Koko wanted to use, LOL.

We then moved onto the Tot School part of our day, which he flew through, as usual. I need to get him more intensive stuff to work on, the stuff I though he didn’t know he does, LOL. Such a little smartie pants

Koko Painting his Letter of the week ~ Aa

Fifi “reading” she loves her books and is such a little page turner. She especially loves books with animals in them

Koko busy with his shape sorter, he loves these and loves to count the shapes and they get pegged

Fifi playing with the paint pot set. She spent ages playing with these, taking them out the holder and putting them back in the order she found them.

Koko reading “If you give a cat a cupcake”

The very hungry caterpillar totbook

Tuckered out after all the playing and learning

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Tot School Planning

Posted on 23/03/2010 by Momma Jo

~Koko is 35 months old~

I am in the process of reorganising our Tot School. I have found that Koko isn’t being stimulated enough and, with the help from my friend who owns Edukits, I am busy setting up a new schedule for him which Fifi can also participate in.

I am also in the process of tweaking our totboxes. I have come to realise that Koko is ready for more intensive work and have done away with our 1 box per day. He will now have 5 boxes to complete during our totschool time in the mornings. This works out very well, as that is the time Noo works independently.

Structured Free Play, this is something I had never thought of before. Koko can keep himself busy, provided that there is something he is interested in. I plan on setting up his morning structured play activities while the children are eating eating breakfast and having their free play session before Noo starts lessons at 9.

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Tot School this week

Posted on 22/03/2010 by Momma Jo

~Koko is 35 months old~

Koko has suddenly taken to his Totbooks. He worked through the “Big Machines”, “Cars” and “Tarzan” totbooks and 2 File Folder Games in one night. He then decided to pull out my totbook/filefolder game file and redo his “Shapes and colours” and “dinosaur” totbooks again. He was on a roll. I have since realised that he is ready for preschool work and I’ll be starting Letter of the Week and more in depth lessons. I’m looking forward to this new part of our homeschool journey.

Fifi has started drawing. She is even holding the pencils and pens correctly. Here she’s busy “drawing” (more like punching holes in the page, LOL) while watching “Gerald McBoingboing. Isn’t she just the cutest little thing ♥

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Tot Box Tuesday ~ on Friday

Posted on 12/03/2010 by Momma Jo

~Koko is 35 months old~

My post is super late this week *blush* We have been so busy with our Dinosaur theme that I haven’t had a chance to blog much, LOL.

Here are our tot boxes for the week.
Monday
D is for Dinosaur Totbook. I made this totbook with files that I got from 1+1+1=1’s Dinosaur Train totbook and Dinosaur ideas from Confessions of a Homeschooler

Tuesday
Dinosaur sequencing. Koko HATED this, he took one look at it and got up, LOL. I’ll keep putting these types of activities in his boxes. He’ll want to do them eventually. The dinosaurs in the box are part of the Dinosaur Train totbook from 1+1+1=1 and the orange dinosaur sequencing game is from File Folder Fun

Wednesday
Dinosaur threading sheet that I got from Confessions of a Homeschooler

Thursday
We played a match the colour Dino Matching game from File Folder fun.

Friday
Today’s box was empty, we had an outing and spent most of the day out of the house.

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Theme of the week ~ Dinosaurs (8 Mar – 12 Mar) ~ Sneak Preview

Posted on 10/03/2010 by Momma Jo

I made this totbook with files that I got from 1+1+1=1’s Dinosaur Train totbook and Dinosaur ideas from Confessions of a Homeschooler

Dinosaur file folder games

Dinosaur Theme sheets – We used these sheets for science, maths and language arts. Noo absolutely adores them.

Dinosaur Theme Mate K-3 (We won this one in a lucky draw. This little book is full of ideas. I love it. I got this “Dino-centre” idea from it.

I will post a full outline of our week with dinosaurs at the end of the week.

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Tot School ~ Colours and Shapes

Posted on 03/03/2010 by Momma Jo

~Koko is 35 months old~

This week we are working on colours and shapes.

I downloaded the Primary Colors Tot Book from Musings of a Rocker Mom blog. Koko absolutely had a blast with it.

The train was his favorite

Sorting the colours into piles

After working on his tot book (he spent an hour on it and LOVED it), he played with his connectors. He first made multi coloured squares and then make 6 squares of different colours. He spent ages playing with these.