Tot school 5

Aaron is 43 months (3 1/2 years old)

Aric is 16.5 months (1 year old)

Wow, it has been a while!  I think it has just been survival for us over here the past little while.  I think we are finally getting back into the groove of things now though!  We had a great week, and some great tot school time!

We have had some great weather so we can still go out and here's what Aaron has accomplished, riding a bike with no trainers!  He is so proud of himself!

This was a graham cracker house decorating activity we did last Sunday after Church.  It was totally unplanned, so we just used what we had around the house.  They had loads of sweet fun!

Here's Aaron's sweet creation:

Here is April's, she used a Goldfish container because we didn't have any more milk carton's.  Like I said, we used what we had lying around!  We even ran out of graham crackers!  They still loved it:

Pom pom spooning activity with Christmas colored balls.  Both boys had fun with this although I had originally put it out for the youngest:

This was definitely a lesson in sharing and getting along!

Aric loved this activity:

The Cheerios Christmas play book.  I even had colored Cheerios for this one!  In case you are wondering, the idea is that you use the cheerios to decorate different things.  For example the current page that he is doing he has to decorate the Christmas tree with some "ornaments".

He is so excited to be able to play a game on the Wii.  He can do this battle game on Mariocart.  He likes to do some activities on the Wii Fit too.

The Mitten story and activity.  One of his favorite stories this week was The Mitten by Jan Brett.  He wanted to read it over and over again, so I thought we should get some activities to go with it.  Here is the first, cutting yarn, and gluing it on a paper mitten (this was a very popular activity!):

He stopped cutting for a little bit to retell the story to me.  I couldn't have planned this moment better my friends!  This is what it is all about, what every homeschool Mom hopes for, those moments that tell you: Yes!  he is learning and comprehending wonderfully!

His finished mitten, ready to dry.  We will put the two mittens together and glue the animals inside next week:

Days of the week and Calendar.  He is so proud of his work!  These are magnets for each day of the week.  Here he lined them up and even sang the Days of the week song as he did it.  Yes, they are definitely not in order and some are even upside down, as my 3rd grader was so quick to point out.  You have to go with the flow sometimes, he'll get it someday, but for now he's proud:

Open ended art.

Here he is painting, that's what he wanted to do.  He was instructed to cover the whole sheet of paper so we could use the pictures for another project.  I had to show him, and after that he got it.  It was quite a task to cover all the white, even the corners.  We are going to use these paintings to make a Hans Hoffman inspired picture next week.

Kumon's first book of cutting.  He really enjoys the Kumon books, I'm glad.  It's hard to find things that interest this boy, but we do and I love it.  He did some cutting today.  Here he is cutting up to the colored flags, but first he had to cut out the little number at the top of the page that tells us it's activity #2 :-)  He did that on each page, who knew?!  It's just a little square at the top of the page with a number in it.  I love this kid!

More cutting.  This time he's cutting the train page.  It's a page with train cars stacked on top of each other and he needed to cut between each one on the gray line.  Then, they lined up to make a long train.  He was all over that!

Here he is driving the train out of the school room:

 Some other things they did but that we didn't get pictures of are playing an online game called Starfall, watching rudolph the red nosed reindeer, helping Mommy cook (they both love to be in the kitchen "helping" me), the hungry caterpillar puzzle, reading new books that they open up every day as part of Christmas countdown), and finding Christmas lights as we drive around. 

Home schooling one day at a time--as long as it takes

Desiree