Tot school--itty bitty bookworm

Aric is currently 25 months old

Most of our tot school last week consisted of a unit from Itty Bitty Bookworm the book we did was Eric Carle's "10 little rubber ducks".  The kids really liked all the activities, even my 9 year-old always gets involved in the itty-bitty bookworm action.  I just adjust things to make them a little more difficult if needed or she just helps her little brothers, like in this first picture.

Here she is reading 10 little rubber ducks to the boys on the first day.  She is such a great read-aloud because she knows how to change her voice and be silly to keep their attention. 

Then we talked about shapes, and the shape on each of these ducks pictured below.  I handed them a picture and they went through the house to find that shape or something close to it.  They had a lot of fun with this.






Then we used the same duck pictures to play a "duck walk" game.  I played music and when the music stopped if they were on the shape that I picked they won, and yes I gave them a quarter for their "prize".  I think each child ended up winning about 2 quarters.

Another day we made duck pictures with all this stuff:

Aric loved this, and he loves it even more when we get out the dot art painters.

Here is his finished duck!

Another day we made "boats" out of the laundry baskets and pretended to be at sea, and the kids played out different parts of the book:

Another day we made duck foot prints with a spatula, and the kids got to dip their feet to make their foot prints too!  They liked this.

And, finally we had a duck bath with blue water.  The kids got to be in the bath too.  They were amazed how the water changed when the blue was added.

As for non-itty bitty bookworm tot school Aric had some fun with felt squares.  I cut 2 squares of each color and he just had fun putting them up on the felt board.

He didn't quite understand matching them so I just let him play for a while.

Then I matched them up for him so he could see how there were 2 of each color.  We also talked about colors, he knows them pretty well.

Fun school:  He got a new "trainer" bike with no pedals.  He loves this bike!

He used it for a little bit, but still has to get used to it.

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Makes me happy!