Sunday, August 30, 2009

Tot School: Week of August 24

Tot School

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!

10 comments:

  1. Wow what a fun week! B had a harder time than I thought he would tearing paper too. He loved the glue but got frustrated with the tearing.

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  2. I think my daughter would love the stop and start game. It's funny how the simplest things can be the most fun for kids.

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  3. I think the paper tearing is a lot tougher than it seems - my son would very much prefer to use scissors. I'll have to set up a paper-tearing activity for him. And I love the start and stop game - we'll be doing that for sure! Thanks for all the great ideas!

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  4. we love to make banana bread at our house!

    She is super cute!

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  5. Very full week for her! It looks like she loved everything! I did a variation of the walking and stopping game with Pufferfish. Instead of a whistle, I used a red stop sign and a green circle for stop and go!

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  6. It's always amazing to me how hard paper tearing is for little ones. I try to incorporate it whenever I can.

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  7. I love the walking and stopping with the whistle idea - I bet that is lots of fun!

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  8. What a great week! I want to get the Cootie game for Emily. I also love the matching the letters in her name activity. I will have to try that.

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  9. What a great week!! There is alot of learning going on at your house!

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