Tot School: Week of August 24

Lauren is 34 months old. Now that big sister is in kindergarten I have turned my home-preschool efforts toward Lauren. I am using the Core Knowledge Preschool Content and Skill Guidelines to focus my teaching.

This week Lauren's learning objectives were:

• recognize written first name
  
• small muscle control activities
  
• tear and paste
  
• recite nursery rhyme: Pat-a-Cake
  
• place objects in a row
  
• start and stop movement in response to a signal

Here are a few snapshots of Lauren's week:

putting together Cootie bugs,


sorting marbles,


matching the shapes on the bottom of the ducks,


walking when I said "start" and stopping when I blew a whistle. She loved this!,


matching the bandannas on the puppies,


taking her baby for a daily walk,


making playdough snakes,


tearing paper (this was harder than I expected),


gluing paper,


matching the letters in her name,


placing crackers in a row,


screwing nuts onto bolts,


spreading glue,


shaking glitter,

making banana bread,


and washing dishes.

Be sure to check out 1+1+1=1 to see what other families are doing in tot school!