Tot School {Polar}

I feel like I am a little late in the year with this theme but it worked out well because they are calling for our first SNOW it is SNOWING tonight! Woo Hoo!!!

Theme
Polar/Arctic

I want to start the week off by watching this video I found on YouTube.  It will give me the chance to talk about and show what the Arctic is.

Book: 

I already had this book and thought it would work well. I love the illustrations in it. I hope that as I plan more in advance to be able to check theme books out of our local library.

Table Time:

 I found this tot pack from 2 Teaching Mommies that is perfect! We will be using the match, color, and size pages from it during our table time.

Trays:

I am doing 3 tot tray activities this week. I am slowly getting back into Tot School so I don't want Tempe to be over whelmed by so many options.

We will be working on sorting by colors. I am using a tray from Dollar Tree, cards from Candy Land, and counting bears. You could use anything you have several of that are the same color though!

We had this Counting Penguin already so I pulled it to focus on colors and counting, which Tempe is obsessed with right now! She does pretty good but we just started this past week and I wanted to spend a little more focus time on them. This will also help with small spaces because she will be feeding the penguin. I am sure if you didn't have something like this you could turn a milk carton into a penguin and cut fish out of paper to feed it.

The last tray/bin is a basket with one of her winter coats, a pair of boots, and mittens. She loves to dress herself and it is a skill that her School Readiness teacher brought information on. She already knows how to put them all on but the coat we will be able to work on zippers and snaps. It is something she enjoys so I know that this will be a favorite this week. {no photo because she put them on to go out in the snow tonight, they were the closet ones and in her reach :)}.

Sensory:

We will also be making snow to play in. All you do is crush ice very fine in a blender. This will be her sensory activity for the week and will be something we do together! ;)

{Update: we will hopefully be playing in the snow outside!}

Cooking:

 In the kitchen with mommy is going to be these cute jello ice bergs.

Source: 2teachingmommies.com via Jennifer on Pinterest

Art:
Painting with snow!!

Source: momendeavors.com via Jennifer on Pinterest

And using cotton balls to make polar bears!

Source: makinglearningfun.com via Jennifer on Pinterest

Bible Story:

This is something I also found on 2 Teaching Mommies. They include a memory verse for each lesson. Tempe is not old enough for that yet but I feel this is the most important part of our lessons. I will be including a Bible story from one of her Bible's each week to read every day. This week's will be the story of Jesus feeding 5000 with bread and fish.

 Remember, Tot School is fun! It is not about setting down making your tot memorize his colors and ABC's. It is about spending time focused on just them. Exposing them to new experiences and doing a little learning along the way!

Tot School {Teeth}

This week T and I ventured back into Tot School. I am determined to stick with it this time. Life happens and it gets put off sometimes.  If we have been gone during the day I am trying to do a little something at night.

 We have a School Readiness meeting this week with a dentist so I wanted to talk about teeth and the dentist so that she will be familiar with it.  Her trays had two activities in them. The one on the left was for her to put green Play-doh between the "teeth" (Lego) and use the brush to brush them and the yarn floss to floss them.  The one on the right is for her to use bug tweezers to pick up cotton ball teeth and place on the mouth.

I have had this book forever. So long I don't even know where or when I got it. It is the cutest book about the lion who wouldn't brush his teeth and  has bad breath. The monkey takes him to the dentist to have his teeth cleaned. Tempe loved it and I found her reading it several time this week already.

She loved to work on her trays at her new table.

We also worked on a T for teeth dot sheet. I couldn't find one online so I made this one!

We still have a few fun things to do with teeth this week that I want to share later on. I am going to also start on our Valenties Day lessons as well. Tempe is really enjoying this! She loves doing it and even if it is just for a minute or two that is ok with me.