EASTER TOT SCHOOL

This is a picture of the Easter Cake Morgan helped me make for our Easter dinner! To see what other Easter activities we did the last few weeks, you can go HERE to our Tot School blog!

TOT SCHOOL

Our St. Patrick's Day Tot School unit is posted on our Hart 2 Hart for those who are interested.

BABY TOT SCHOOL

Well, I couldn't help myself. I just HAD to start "Baby Tot School" with Kelsey. I couldn't wait any longer! :) I love these one on one "learning through play" times with my girls!Morgan goes down for a nap around 1:00, and Kelsey usually doesn't go down until 1:30, so I have 30 minutes alone with her to play with her tot trays.I simply pull one tray out each day and we "play" together with that activity on her blanket in our "schoolroom" (or office). Obviously, right now her trays are pretty simple and basic. Just basically a couple of her toys that I want to use for educational play.The first day, we played with a few big duplo blocks .... and a basket. As we played, I used words like "in the basket" and "out of the basket," as well as identifying the colors of the blocks as she picked them up and how many blocks. ("You have one block in your hand." "You are holding 2 blocks.")I think she had more fun with the basket than she did with the blocks!The second day we used her stacking rings. Her favorite thing was to take one in each hand and smack them together or wave them in her hands.She also enjoyed "eating" them! :)She even was able to get them all off the stand by herself. No luck putting them back ON, but we'll work on that. :) Again, I kept using the color words as she played and "on" and "off." She is starting to grab for things out of her reach, and trying to figure out how to move towards what she wants. Not at all crawling yet, but heading in the right direction. Well, we've only actually done two days .... but I am so excited to continue doing more with her and watching her grow and develop!

VALENTINE TOT SCHOOL

We spent two weeks doing all kinds of fun Valentine's Day activities. If you are interested, you can go HERE to read about them.

TOT SCHOOL

I have posted quite a few things on our other blog including winter tot school activites, and Valentine's Day stuff. Head over to Hart2Hart if you are interested ......

CHRISTMAS TOT SCHOOL

I finally got up another post on our Tot School Blog about all the fun Christmas things we did in December. Go HERE to take a look!

LOVING PINTEREST

I am LOVING www.pinterest.com !!! I have found some great ideas, and I love how easy it is to keep track of them. Here are a couple we did the other day:

Ornament Scavenger Hunt

I took pictures of individual ornaments on our tree and had Morgan hunt for them. When she found them, she got to mark them off on her sheet. She had a blast!!

Felt Tree

I made a tree out of felt and cut out some ornaments, too. Morgan had fun "decorating" her own tree over and over again!

And I have lots more ideas that I am dying to try! But where to find the time......

FALL TOT SCHOOL

I finally got around to documenting some of the things we've done this fall. You can check them out HERE at our Tot School Blog.

TOT SCHOOL

We have actually done a few tot school type things lately! You can go HERE and HERE to see what we've done.

BALLERINA TUTU

Morgan is so into ballerinas and dancing right now. I found a packet online of ballerina stuff that we have been working on (slowly, whenever we get around to it these days). Then, the other day, I found this handprint craft idea HERE, and I knew we HAD to try it out. Morgan loved it, and it turned out SO cute!

TOT SCHOOL

We finally were able to get back into our tot school routine a bit the last couple of weeks. You can go visit our Tot School blog to see what we got accomplished.

TOT SCHOOL...OR LACK THEREOF

We haven't done much in terms of Tot School lately....okay, so really nothing. But I have posted a few posts about our laid back, low key activities that we've been doing since Kelsey was born. You can go HERE to our Hart 2 Hart Tot School blog to get caught up.

F IS FOR FISH TOT SCHOOL

You can go HERE to see what we did for Tot School this week related to fish!

F IS FOR FLOWER TOT SCHOOL

I am slowing down on the tot school stuff, but you can go HERE to see what we accomplished the last two weeks.

U IS FOR UMBRELLA TOT SCHOOL

We finished up our U is for Umbrellas unit. It was a good week to talk about umbrellas and rain and clouds around here with the way the weather was outside! Today on the way home from church when it was POURING down rain, Morgan said, "I think we need an umbrella!"

R IS FOR RAINBOW TOT SCHOOL

We took two weeks to do our R is for Rainbow unit. It is posted HERE for anyone who is interested.

R IS FOR RABBIT TOT SCHOOL

Our R is for Rabbit tot school week is posted HERE for anyone who is interested!

J IS FOR JELLYBEANS

You can go see all that we did with jellybeans this past week HERE at our tot school blog.

J IS FOR JESUS TOT SCHOOL

You can go HERE to our Tot School blog to see what we this week for Easter.

E IS FOR EGGS

Our E is for Egg Tot School week is posted over HERE on our Tot School blog for anyone who is interested.