Preschool and Tot School More Winter Activities

Preschool and Tot School

43 months and 11 months

Snowman Puzzle

Little Sweets is putting a snowman puzzle together.  You can get this free here.

Lacing Cards

 Snowflake Tic Tac  Toe

Little Sweets and I took turns flipping over snowflake cards.  Little Sweets counted the number of snowflakes on the card and covered the up the correct number on her board.  I also covered up the correct number.  The first person to have three numbers covered diagonally, across, or down won the game.  You can get this game here. 

In and Out

Little Peanut put pegs inside her box and took them out.  She loves this game.

It the Tube

Little Peanut loves putting the pegs in the toilet paper tube. 

Making a Sensory Bottle for Little Peanut

Little Sweets helped me make a sensory bottle for her sister.  She put beads and glitter in a bottle filled with colored water.  

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Letter "P"

Letter "P"

34 Months

The weather here was beautiful this week so we spent a lot of time outside.  We did manage to do some tot school.  We worked on letter "P" and did some Easter activities.

P is for Popsicle Sticks

There are so many activities you can do with Popsicle sticks.  Here are a few that Little Sweets did.

Popsicle Stick Patterning

I made patterns with the sticks and Little Sweets told me the pattern and used more Popsicle sticks to extend the pattern. 

Popsicle Stick Sorting

Little Sweets sorted the Popsicle sticks by color.



Popsicle Stick Counting

Little Sweets counted the Popsicle sticks and then found the number card that matched.

Letters and Words

Little Sweets and I made letters out of the Popsicle sticks.  I made a word and Little Sweets read it.

Picture Match

This was an easy game I made.  I created the letter board using the computer.  I printed out picture cards to use from this website.  You can create your own using clip art, but I had printed out the cards for another activity so I decided to reuse them.  Little Sweets and I took turns turning over a picture card and placing it on the letter the picture started with. 

Painting

Little Sweets painted several pictures using water color paints.

P is for Princess

Little Sweets spent a lot of time playing with her princess dolls (and Ken).

Easter Activities

Daddy and Little Sweets are doing Resurrection eggs together.

I cut out and laminated the Easter story found in the curriculum More Toddlerific Fun Faith Builders.  I made props to go with the story.

I bought these cards from the dollar tree.  Little Sweets put the cards in numerical order. 

Tiny Tot

Cutie Pie giggled for the first time this week. 

Cutie Pie fell asleep on her belly for the first time this week. 

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Tot School letter "L"

 Tot School- Letter "L"

33 months

We did a lot of fun activities this week for the letter "L."

Sorting with Chopsticks

Little Sweets used the training chopsticks that we got at the Chinese restaurant to pick up pom-poms and place them in cups according to their color.  We put the cups in the shape of an "l."  This was a great fine motor activity for Little Sweets. 



Bingo Stamp "L"

Little Sweets used bingo stamps to make the letter "l."  Then she used her training chopsticks to pick up pom-poms and placed them on the dots. 

"L" is for Ladybug

I drew a ladybug and Little Sweets used the bingo stamper to add spots.  Then she counted the spots.  She found the number on our calendar and I helped her write the number. 

"L" Sound

 Little Sweets found the letter "L" and placed it in the word whammer.  She listened to the sound the "L" makes.  I picked the word whammer up at a local consignment sale.

Cork board "L"

I placed a piece of paper on a cork board and poked holes in the board and paper in the shape of an "L."   Then I used a black marker to mark the holes.  Little Sweets placed thumbtacks in the holes.  Then she put a bead on each thumbtack.  This was a super cheap easy activity.  I found the cork board and lacing beads at the dollar tree.

I also got the Letter Factory Game at the consignment sale.  It is super fun and teaches counting, colors, letter identification, and letter sounds.  Little Sweets loves it.  I also picked up the Letter Factory video that goes with it from the library.  (You don't need the video to play the game.)

Letter Bridge

Little Sweets used her letter blocks to make a bridge for Cinderella.  She said the names of the letters as Cinderella jumped on each block.

 Letter Stamps

Little Sweets put letter stamps on her letter "L."

Letter Sound Picture Match

I got this idea from Confessions of  a Homeschooler.  Little Sweets picked the picture that started with the letter "l" and placed a clothespin on the picture.  I was impressed at how much she knew.  She even told me what letters the other pictures started with.  We also read the book My "L" Sound Box to go along with the activity.

L is for Lollipop

Little Sweets sorted a bag of lollipops by color.  She counted the lollipops then I put the numbers on a graph.  Little Sweets used the graph to tell me how many of each color lollipops there were.  Then she showed me which had the most lollipops.  I had to show which had the least number of lollipops.  I think she did great.  We've only done graphs together a few times. 

Character Trait: Loving Others

We talked about loving others and how to show love.  We read a story from Little Sweets Bible. Little Sweets colored a heart and we wrote different ways we could love others. 

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Tot School Letter I

Tot School- Letter I

33 months

I is for inch worms

Little Sweets enjoyed sorting inch worms by color and size.  She also put the worms in order from biggest to smallest. 

Counting and Number Recognition

Little Sweets counted the worms on the sheet and matched them with the correct number.  I found this activity at COHS here. 

Sorting Capital and Lower Case I's

I found this activity here at COHS.

Character Trait- Helpfulness

This week we talked about being helpful and having helping hands.  We read the story of Ruth and talked about how she helped Naomi. We talked about how God wants us to help others. We also talked about having helping hands we used the hand we had traced from last weeks lessons and wrote different ways Little Sweets helps mommy.

Calendar Time and Morning Board

Little Sweets and I have started doing morning board and calendar activities together.  I will put up another post describing the activities. 

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