(Mr. Me-Too is 43 months old.)
Tot Trays
I forget where we got these amazing chopsticks, maybe PF Chang’s, but they are perfect for Chinese food and extracting pompom balls from beans (thanks to my sister, Michelle).
By the way, the hat on Mr. Me-Too was a permanent fixture that day. I am not sure why, other than the fact that I love wearing my skullcap.
Inspired by someone’s blog (I’m so sorry . . . I don’t remember which blog because I went through the whole Tot School list last week—I left you a comment), I cut out mittens, numbered them from 1-10, and placed the correct number of dots on the back of the mitten. Mr. Me-Too had to place them in numerical order and then flip the mitten over and place the correct number of dots on the backside of the mitten.
We had fun printing an entire ABC booklet to use our Do-A-Dot’s with which you can find at Making Learning Fun.
We received some packing peanuts the mail when my Bed Buddy Foot and Hand Warmers arrived. So the boys obtained some “swords” (kabob skewers) and gently stabbed the skewer through the packing peanut. Once the kabob was full, they slid the peanuts off into the vase. Once the vase was full, they completed the task. (This does require supervision. We had one sword fight that wasn’t pretty—but no blood.)
I don’t have real good pictures of our next activity. We have 100 bouncy balls from Oriental Trading. The boys had to load a large spoon up with balls, carefully climb the stairs without dropping the balls, dump them in a container at the top of the stairs, and then come back down to repeat the process. (It got rid of some restless energy!)
At the suggestion of Confessions of a Homeschooler, I purchased some VERY large push pins (and yes this is another activity that needs a little bit of supervision.) I hand printed (you can use a computer) several letters of the alphabet and Mr. Me-Too used a push pin to poke holes into each letter.
The boys were so curious. Why on earth did I have a pair of shoes on a Tot Tray? Can you guess?
Their task was to find as many shoes as they could and dump them into a pile. It was a bit eye opening to me—I didn’t realize how many shoes we had. And I will have you know that Granola Mom had the LEAST pairs of shoes!!!
Then, they had to match the pairs of shoes because I mixed them all up. (Rosey-Posey was over for the morning and helped us.)
After finding a match they created a parade of shoes.
Finally, they walked in another person’s shoes!
I created patterns with unifix cubes and they had to mimic the pattern. Afterwards, they started making each other patterns.
Mr. Me-Too and Rosey-Posey played a snowflake matching game from Confessions of a Homeschooler.
It is possible for 3 young children to have a Quiet Time in one room and stay reasonably quiet. Yahoo!
Can you tell that I loved having a little girl around the house? Rosey joined us for yummy snacks. I am working my way through a Sue Gregg cookbook and came across her yummy homemade Cheese-its. Rose liked it until Mr. Smackdown started complaining. And Mr. Me-Too loved them . . . well, until Big Brother started moaning.
The boys also enjoyed working out with me this past week.
They also had their fare share of play time!
