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.

F IS FOR FLOWERS

~Punkin is 34 months old.~

This is going to be short, sweet, and to the point because I'm tired. Plain and simple. I'm 37 weeks pregnant and feeling every bit of that! Our F is for Flower unit took 2 weeks to do, and even then, it was pretty basic and sporadic. I have been planning and have had great intentions, but when it comes right down to implementing those plans.....I just run out of steam. But here is what we did manage to accomplish the past two weeks.

TOT TRAYS

Melissa & Doug See and Spell
Making flowers with her Melissa & Doug magnetic pattern blocks board.

Making "flower arrangements" with fake flowers and upside down styrofoam cups with holes poked in them.

Punkin loved the rainbow bin so much I left it out one last time.

Creating words on her Leapfrog Word Whammer by looking at the cards I had made for her.

And she did about 10 of these flower dot marker pages over the course of the two weeks.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

You can't see it very well in this picture, but Punkin used a flower stamp to cover the letter f.

She also used flower pictures with velcro on the back to make an f.

Then, on her own, she wanted to make patterns with the flower pictures.

Punkin sorted capital and lowercase Ff petals onto the correct flower, matching colors as she went as well. You can download a copy HERE.

We did this alphabet assessment together, except I said the sound of the letter and Punkin had to find the letter that makes that sound.

I made these sight word flowers for Punkin. There was a picture in the middle of the flower that represented each of her sight words. She had to find the milk jug cap that had the word on it and put it on the flower. Then, she used letter tiles to spell the word on the petals.

I also made this flower addition activity for Punkin. She picked a purple card, put it on the purple square, and then placed that many purple petals on the flower. She repeated that with a pink card and pink petals. Then, she counted all the petals together on the flower and found that number on a white card to place at the end. I had her "read" the math problem to me as well each time when she was done.

As a number assessment of the double digit numbers we've worked on so far, I made this sheet with numbers 10-13 in the middle of the flowers. Punkin had to dot each number a different color based on the key at the top.

Here is the finished page.

I made this activity last year when we did flowers. Punkin matched the shapes to the correct flower, making sure to match the shapes to the correct color of petal as well.

She did this color by number flower page from The Ramblings of a S.A.H.M.

I got this idea from Tons of Fun. I made flower picture templates, and Punkin had to recreate the same picture using foam shapes on her own page.

CRAFTS / MISC.

Just a random flower picture using cupcake liners and milk jug lids.

Punkin practiced her cutting by cutting apart strips of flowers.

Then, she sorted them and glued them onto a "flower garden" picture.

This was my poor attempt to make a cute flower lunch like I saw here.

OTHER RANDOM THINGS

Lots of puzzles

Pouring rice

And then brooming up the mess.

Playing in her sand table.

Having lots of "picnic" lunches outside.

Building blocks with Daddy.

Washing the deck (as well as a bucket of rocks and anything else she could find to "wash").

That about wraps it up. Go to 1+1+1=1 to find out what other tots were up to this past week.