SURVIVING THROUGH TODDLERHOOD: OUR TOT SCHOOL FOR THE WEEK

This week we did alot of stuff and included lei lei in everyone of the activities. Alot of the idea's we used this week we borrowed from jill's tot school playdate, I wanted angelina to try all these and lei lei to try them again. I had to hit up all of the hotspots for supplies, alan party supply, target, joann's and the dollar store. I prepared all of them for the week, so when it was time I was quick and ready! Eddie helped out too, and was impressed with what the girls could accomplish in one week, He did question why is angelina going to preschool when I could be teaching her like this at home and probibly better than them. It is a question I need to think about...

First activity was these glittery heart stems from the dollar store and a round piece of strofoam, I marked holes and had the girls match up the sticks with the holes.

Next we did these 6 mini hearts with a 6 plastic organizer and a pair of metal tongs. I bought the items at joann's.

Then we did the salt shaker actiivty with tissue paper, flower beads and pipe cleaners. This challenging for lei lei with lil patience she can do it every time, angelina it wa easy but made her count out 3 beads for each pipe cleaner to make it a lil harder.

We also did a sugar shaker with glitter pipe cleaners, all they had to do was put them in the holes.

The the letter were learning about is F and they did a couple of worksheets on these, like letter tracing, coloring a fish etc...

Next I traced heart earsers with a pin on cardstock and had lei lei match up the 4 hear shapes, for angelina I did numbers 1-4 on the earsers and on the carstock I mixed the numbers order up for a more challenging activity.

Daddy did a heart sticker matching on cardstock, for angelina I did two different heart patterns that she had to copy by order and color, and for lei lei I did a simple big to small hearts, This activity lasted a good 20 mins with all the combinations of angelina's.

Since angelina's activity took longer I was prepared for another for lei lei, I had 3 small red plates with big, medium and small labeled on them and a bag full of 3 different sized pom pom's. She like this activity alot and spent a good amount of time on it.

Angelina still had her worksheets to do for her name tracing and a couple valentine activity sheets I had her do.

I did these 8 lil plastic container hearts with 1-8 written on the inside and and top of them, also picked up some different red buttons, lei lei I just had do 4 of them, but angelina I had do all eight and when it was clean up time had them match the tops to the bottoms.

A easy activity we did, I used a recycled pasta sauce jar and some plastic fake baby clothes pins and some tongs, the idea was to get all the pins in the jar before the timer of one minute was up, it ended up being a really fun acitivity.

One of our new activities was sweeping! I bought at the dollar store a small broom and dust pan and had some white buttons, I had both of them sweep them up and empty them in a container, quite challenging for a two yr old, she kept spilling them everywhere.