Our first week of Tot School

Our main objectives with this is

1) Getting her to learn letters, numbers, shapes, and colors

2) be more engaged with her as far as limiting tv/phone/iPad usage throughout the day for all of us

3) start incorporating bible lessons

4) work on fine motor skills.

First I made a trip to Walmart to stock up on some supplies:

Construction paper

Markers

Glue

Pipe cleaners

Popsicle sticks

Finger paint

Wiggle eyes

In addition to what I had already gotten from the Dollar Tree:

Flash cards

Cut-out letters and numbers 

Scissors 

A couple of weeks ago I decided to start focusing on one letter per week with her, so this week we are on the letter C.  We also started with the number 1 and our bible story was Daniel in the Lions's Den.

On Monday we added the Letter C to our wall with A and B and also added the number 1.  Our craft for the day was C made out of cotton balls for cloud.  And a coloring page of the number 1.

I had seen on Pinterest where you just give your child some pipe cleaners and a strainer and let them put the pipe cleaners through the holes to work on fine motor skills.  Sam loved doing this, she sat there for a good 20-25 minutes, we also worked on colors.  She actually did this every day this week.

Next we made a Caterpillar, gluing the circles on the letter C.  We also let her practice with the scissors which is what the squares are from, she wanted to put them on the caterpillar:).  We also went to the library for storytime and checked out a few books.

On Wednesday, she did some painting and then in nursery at Church we learned about Daniel in the Lion's Den and attempted making paper plate lions.  

On Thursday we made cookies!  She loves to help cook and bake and trying all the ingredients.  We incorporated the Letter C and counting as well.

On Friday, I was quite worn out from the week and Howie was working so we didn't work on anything in particular just reinforced what we had done throughout the week.

Some things I learned about all this through the week:

1. Pinterest is amazing 

2. We do the most on Monday's and Tuesday's when I have morning's off.

3. She takes really good naps when she hasn't had any screen time.