Tot School: November 22-28, 2009

Sunshine is 28 months, 2 weeks.

I can hardly believe it that it has been an entire MONTH since I blogged our Tot School adventures. We have had a lot going on lately (car accident, holiday, dh is working 2nd shift, etc) so I haven't had much time to keep up with Tot School. My good friend Jill emailed me to make sure we are all ok and said she misses my posts so she has inspired me to get going again!!!


Sunshine pulled out her puzzles that she hasn't worked with in sometime. She had a great time naming them and finding where they belonged.


I found this great paper pumpkin at Michael's after Halloween and Sunshine insisted on buying it. I pulled out the paint that we have here at home and she had a great time painting away!!






I changed out the items in her sensory bucket from Halloween goodies to apples, pears, gords, and corn. She loves this bucket and could play with it for hours on end. She enjoys digging through it, scooping, pouring, and throwing it all over!! ;)














I have had this little Elmo sticker book for who knows how long now. Sunshine found it and insisted we did it together. She sat on my lap and did most of it by herself. I helped her with the color books as you had to match them to books with the color word and the Elmo Loves You page.


Sunshine has been obsessed with nutcrackers ever since we saw a huge display of them in the Christmas Tree Shop a few weeks ago. I found a little paint your own kit and she had a great time being creative with this using many colors.




This was all her on Saturday morning. She dug out her farm animals and lined them all up in a row. It was so cute and then we talked about their names and the sounds they make.


We made these turkeys in honor of Thanksgiving and to go along with Open Ended Art - see my seperate post on it here.

Books we have been reading:
1. A Number of Animals by Christopher Wormell
2. The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg
3. Panda Bear Panda Bear by Bill Martin Jr.

To see what other tot parents have done with their kiddos this past week, visit 1+1+1=1.

OEA: Non-Open Ended Art Week

I have been wanting to join up with the blog train for Open Ended Art for a while now and have finally gotten around to it!! It is hosted on the blog Mommy's Little Artist; for more information on what open-ended art truly is read her post here. This week was a free week and we were asked to share a craft that our children created. Sunshine and I created some turkeys with a little poem that I found on MakingLearningFun.com here. We made ours a little different as I did not have any brown paint nor the right colors to mix to make brown. Here are the pics of us creating our turkeys.



















Sadly I did not get any pictures of her adding their legs/feet, beaks, or eyes. Oh well!! We gave them to Grandma/Grandpa and Nunny/Papa on Thanksgiving.

Tot School: October 25-31, 2009

Sunshine is 27 months, 3 weeks old. We had a fun few weeks doing Halloween activities.




We recently put in a new door in our home and had some pieces of wood lying around. Sunshine asked Grandpa if she could have a piece and decided it would be fun to draw on it with chalk.












We then made a couple of door hangers that we purchased from our local dollar store. The pumpkin one she did pretty much on her own, but the other one she needed a lot of assistance from me. We hung the black on one our new door to welcome visitors and the pumpkin one she hung on her bedroom door.


We had fresh corn on the cob one last time before the col weather rolls in and Sunshine did a great job helping me shuck the corn.


At the Christmas Tree Shoppe I found this cute wooden monster that came with little markers. Sunshine had a great time coloring him and for days she carried him around saying, "Grrrr!!!"








I made Sunshine a senory bucket that I filled with rice and lima beans. I added some fun Halloween creepies, gave her a spoon, and let her search away! She loved it! We played with this many times over the past few weeks. She also got a life lesson on cleaning up ou messes! Hehe....





Sunshine painted a little kitty sitting on top of a grave stone that we picked up at Christmas Tree Shoppe.




I found these awesome stickers that are actual pictures of pumpkins at the dollar store. Stickers are still a huge favorite of Sunshine's.

To see what other tot parents have done with their kiddos this past week, visit 1+1+1=1.