October 2010

Deen is 3 years 9 months & Aaliya is 17 months old.

Since Deen started at his Montes­sori preschool at the begin­ning of the year I haven’t really par­tic­i­pated much in Tot School. I didn’t want to over­load him in terms of “work” so I just did more play instead of play with an edu­ca­tional twist behind it.

I started Tot School with Deen this past week and I am so happy to be back at it. We both had a great time doing the activ­i­ties and I felt as if we bonded so much dur­ing this time.  There is so much inspi­ra­tion to be found on all the link ups for Tot School as well as Carissa’s blog.

I also dis­cov­ered Con­fes­sions of A Home­schooler blog and I think I’m in blog love! I can’t believe that it has taken me so long to find such an incred­i­ble blog with the most amaz­ing let­ter of the week activ­i­ties and print­a­bles out there!

Ok … no more “talk­ing”. Here is what we did this week dur­ing Tot School:

Deen did this Shape Fire Truck cut and paste activ­ity. He did not need my help at all dur­ing this activ­ity. He knew where every shape went and had fun using the glue stick to place every­thing correctly.

Then Deen matched count­ing Bears to their cor­rect Color Match­ing Tile.

We both made the Let­ter A using play dough on our play dough let­ter mat.

Deen and I planted some radishes and  marigold using a kids flower grow­ing kit while Aaliya jumped on her trampoline.

I pur­chased a Melissa & Doug Cut­ting Food Box set this week and we are lov­ing it! I can’t believe I waited this long to pur­chase it. I hon­estly thought the vel­cro would be too easy but I tried it myself and it really feels as if you are cut­ting food (minus the ouch­ies and boo boo’s kids would get using a real knife.) This prod­uct is def­i­nitely a must have and I can see us using this for a long time as the qual­ity seems great!

Aaliya is able to use it too although she doesn’t really cut the food, she just pulls them apart and enjoys doing so!

I put Deen’s Toy Story Alien Grab toy on and had Aaliya pick out the Aliens while it was mov­ing. This was def­i­nitely chal­leng­ing for her but in a good way.

We baked Wee­l­i­cious Sweet Beet Cook­ies but Aaliya got upset when the dough started stick­ing to her hand…

Deen on the other hand didn’t mind that at all and really enjoyed rolling the dough and mak­ing shapes with me. The cook­ies turned out yummy.

Here is my favorite pic­ture of Aaliya this week:

The hat and bow she is wear­ing is sold at my store: Posh LiL’ Diva

Click on the image below to see what oth­ers did in Tot School this week.

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