Tot School

Sawyer -3.5 years
Jax-2 years today
Last week we passed around a stomach bug, so we spent a lot of time at home in our pajamas. The boys were good little patients and we were able to do some fun tot school activities.

I saw this idea on Carissa's blog last week and thought my boys would love it. They jumped o the letters I called out. With Sawyer I would call out the sound or say bring me the letter that "dog" starts with. Jax just liked to jump, so I called out the letter name as he jumped and he would repeat it.

Here were some of Sawyer's favorite activities from the week. He loves puzzles and is really good at them. He got this Melissa and Doug 48 piece puzzle last week and worked it almost every day.

He also played his Leap Frog Word Launch game. This has been such a great game. I highly recommend it.

He also liked sorting and stringing these foam shape beads onto pipe cleaners.

Painting with water colors was also a big hit.

Jax spent a long time putting pom poms into this paint jar. It was a very simple activity that both boys enjoyed.


We talked about the letter D and made these ducks. The idea came from No Time for Flash Cards.

My littlest Tot turned 2 today! I can't believe how fast these past two years have gone by. We celebrated with our friends and family on Saturday. The party was a construction theme. We had cupcakes, dirt pudding, and pizza.

We got the boys a trampoline this week. Jax had a blast jumping!

The kids decorated construction hats with stickers.


Jax got some great puzzles, books, and learning toys for his birthday. I think I am more excited about them than he is. Here are two of the new Melissa and Doug puzzles.

This is my favorite picture of my big 2 year old boy. Oh, how I love this kid! The big one in the background is pretty special too! I am so blessed.

Check out what other tots did this week in tot school.

Tot School: A little bit of this and that

Sawyer-3.5 years
Jax- 2 years next week

Lately tot school has not been going the way I imagine it in my head. I am still adjusting to teaching 3 year olds twice a week at the Mother's Day Out at our church. I have not had as much time to plan for the time at home with the boys. We do a lot, it just hasn't been planned or documented very well. Lots of unexpected things keep coming up and I am trying not to let it bother me so much. I am such a planner, but sometimes the best learning comes from my kids' spontaneous games. I have managed to catch a few things on camera in the last couple of weeks, so I will share them now.

I saw this cute idea for an apple tree on the Just for Fun blog. It wanted to try it with my students, but thought I would try it at home first. It didn't quite work the way I imagined. The boys weren't interested in following directions. As you can see my almost 2 year old was not a happy camper. I don't even know what he was so upset about.


The trees came out fine, but not as perfect as the ones I had seen. Jax was happy again when I just gave him a paint brush and let him paint as he pleased. When I did this with my class I helped each child one at a time and they were much more cooperative than my own children. Imagine that!

The boys did have a blast free painting with brushes and fingers and here are some of their master pieces.

Another day last week we played with floam. Sawyer and I made letters out of the floam. He wanted me to write his friend Jolie's name. He told me it started with a J and then I helped him sound out the rest.


We decorated the letter S with stars. I let the boys glue and stick stars all over their paper.

We made a bit of a mess, so I decided to make clean up into a game. I asked the boys to find all the blue stars, then the red, and so on until they were all cleaned up. I can be sneaky when I need to.

Go to Carissa's blog to see what fun she and others had in tot school last week.