Tot School

~Krash is currently 36.5 months old~

I didn’t get many action shots of Krash working this week, but we had lots of Tot school fun! I think I am just going to set up the shelves for the week for the summer and then supplement with a few extra activities each week. It is easy for the summer and gives him something to look forward to each week! Here’s what he did this week…

Spooning jewels from his new $1 (Target) bucket, into a paint tray (from AC Moore). He was able to make a pattern with my guidance, it was neat…

He “read” to Pac Man…He loves these Vehicles in a Box Puzzles and did all 4 in the box with my help. I put the corners in for him and then he can usually find the pieces from there…We made the Hh projects that were shared on Totally Tots today, K LOVED this, and was so proud of his work hanging up, we need to do more projects like this!!! Eventually these will be added to his ABC notebook.
Here’s photos of the rest of his trays, I didn’t get action shots of…

Monkey Math–this is a neat addition game, you place the bananas on each side to balance when the numbers are equal. Obviously K is not working on addition, I just put it out for fun and some number ID. I put out Perler Beads to string onto a pipe cleaner…He loved playing with the Connect 4 game. I used it to practice taking turns with him, and also red and black :) Finally, his soft ABC blocksHe had big-brother practice with our sweet ladybug…And here’s my favorite Krash shot of the week…

If you have a tot (approximately ages 1-3) at home, join in the fun and share what you’re doing with your tot! Here’s how to get started if you’re new…

If you’ve never read this: Go HERE 1st for more details- please do!!! Then if you have any ideas you’d like to share, link up your exact post to Mr Linky (if you have questions about how to do that, let me know in a comment or email-links to homepages will automatically be deleted).

New: when you add your name(blog name) to Mr. Linky will you put your tot’s age (in months) after it, like this: 1+1+1=1 (36 mos)? I think this will help new readers a lot as they look for ideas for their specific aged tot!

If you are unsure of how to add your direct link to Mr Linky-I added a tutorial with photos here, scroll down to see it!

Summer Plans

As May comes to a close I am anticipating the summer months and wondering exactly what we will do for schooling. We have had such an OFF year and Pac Man has had tons of week long breaks during our many issues this year. Thankfully he was over 1/2 year ahead and is still about 25 lessons ahead (he technically should be entering 2nd grade in the fall and is on lesson 25 (out of 160) right now). Because of this, I never really worried about all of the time we took off from school this year.

We do plan to continue with school this summer, although we did not last summer. I don’t plan to do *real* school, but a very scaled down version. My thoughts are to have 3-6 Workboxes each day for Pac Man, mostly only 3 per day. I only plan to do this when we are home all day, if we are gone I am not going to worry about it. My hope is to complete at least through lesson 40 by the end of the summer.

For Krash, I do plan to continue to set up his trays each week, and change them out throughout the week. He needs the time with me and I need to be focused with him or his behavior will be off the wall. He is so high strung and needs that focused time with me each day.

I did start something new with Pac this week. If he can finish his boxes before K wakes up from his nap, I will spend the rest of nap time playing games with him. That way I can be sure to spend focused time with him each day, AND it motivates him to complete his work in a timely fashion (something he really struggles with).

I also plan to get our Summer Challenge going again, if you weren’t reading with me last year, you can read about it here. I plan to alter it a bit, but stick with the general concept, as it worked really well last summer.

What are your summer plans as far as Tot School and homeschooling your older kids?

Romans 7:18b

This is my husband’s favorite! If you can’t tell, that’s Pac Man when he was about 2! For myself, I had one of these days today. I was all thrown off by getting up late today and by about 10am I was wishing Krash was in a preschool program!!!. Now as I reflect on my day tonight, I realize it was me who was off-not him. I am praying I can carry out what is good tomorrow!

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Psalm 141:3

Oh how I pray I can do this today.