F IS FOR FISH

~Punkin is 34 months old.~

Well, I managed to work up enough energy to do a few things Tot School related with Punkin this week. I still had gobs more planned to do, but hey....that's life right now. :)

LETTER: Ff

THEME: Fish

NUMBER: 13

SHAPE: didn't really focus on one

COLOR: orange

VERSE: Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

VIDEOS: The Rainbow Fish, The Dance of the Rainbow Fish, Finding Nemo (Beyond the Sea)

BOOKS:

TOT TRAYS

Punkin spent a lot of her tot tray time looking at all her fish books.

Magnetic Melissa and Doug fish puzzle

Fish erasers - putting in and out of container, using tweezers to put in ice cube tray, throwing them around :)

I found this box of plastic fish at a garage sale. She did just about everything with these, too, like sorting, patterns, tweezing, throwing....

I found this idea HERE. Punkin LOVED this tray and did it over and over again. I had given her random little things in the tray and pieces of cut foil. She pretended to "wrap" each one and give the "gifts" to all her animals and dolls.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Kumon workbooks - She's getting so good at curves and now even just using lines instead of "paths."

Letter Ff writing and prewriting.

Tracing an f with her fish erasers using tweezers.

"Fishing" for her sight words - a HUGE hit!

Graphing goldfish - printable from HERE.

Fish patterns file folder game I had from when I was teaching.

CRAFTS / ART

Making a Rainbow Fish out of an f. Idea came from COAH.

One day I had Punkin color two coffee filters with markers. Then, she had a blast spraying them with water and watching the colors blend together.

The next day after they dried, she added an eye and mouth to one and we cut the other one to make a fin and a tail. I got the idea from HERE.

MISC. FISH ACTIVITIES

Playing with her plastic fish in the sink.

A fun fish lunch that turned out so much cuter than the flopped flower one last week! :) I again got the idea from HERE.

RANDOM OTHER THINGS WE DID

Washed her foam letters on the deck.

Helped me wash out and sanitize the diaper pail for Baby Sister.

Used foil again to wrap presents for Grandpa and Daddy for Father's Day and for Grandma who had a birthday. (She was SO proud to give her gifts!)

Well, that was our short week. Who knows if I'll get around to much next week. But then after that, Baby will be here, so we might be missing for a while.....

You can always check out what other tots are up to at 1+1+1=1.