Tot School ~ Letter Qq

~Ladybug is currently 28.5 months old~

 

Letter: Qq

Object: Queen

Vocabulary Development Theme: Royalty

You can find the printables for this unit here on the Tot School Printables webpage.

Oh, it is SO nice to be back to regular school, I am loving it!!  Ladybug is so much more go-with-the-flow now.  Even a big change since just the weeks before we went to the beach.  She is definitely still very opinionated and dramatic but she hangs out and plays so much better these days!

Here’s a peek at which Letter Q activities she wanted to do…

Gluing shapes…

Stamping letters…Dot painting letters…Coloring her queens, for a little while,Then watching as Krash finished them for her…Dot painting letters on the queen…more dot painting {she chose orange every time!}

We put tape on our white paper to dot paint a Q but she was way more interested in stacking the dot-paint tops.

Squeezing the play doh that I had planned to make Q’s out of. 

Instead we rolled snakes to lay on her tracing page.

Poking the snakes…

I decided to try to lay her work out on trays like this, along with her toys and other items.  She didn’t seem to care one way or the other, but it helped me see what she hadn’t done.  I am lucky-she doesn’t mess with them unless it is school time.

On the Shelves:

• Top Left in basket : Guidecraft City Blocks
• Top Right: Betty Lukens Castle Fun Felt Set
• Top Right: Guidecraft Fraction Puzzles
• Top Middle: Discovery Toys Progressive Puzzles
• Top Right Drawer: felt pieces for the felt board
• Trays: Letter Qq work
• Bottom Right Corner: Piggy Bank

 

Letter Qq printables here!

Fun Books & Toys for this unit here!

 

 

  

I set her shelves up a bit differently as shown above, but will still show her toys and other tray activities here.…

Playing with her Betty Lukens Felt Set…

Fraction Puzzles, she loves these!

Discovery Toys Progressive Puzzles, working on the 4-piece puzzles…

Swinging friends that we built together…

By FAR, the most played with toy this week was our foam blocks.

They came out every day.

Many times per day.

She built by herself more than ever, and told me all about her buildings! I got the tongs you see while we were at the beach.  There is a mid size and also a tiny pair, I couldn’t find them online, but check Kitchen Collection or The Gourmet Chef if you have either near you.  They are so cool!  She used them so much and I caught her cleaning up the blocks with them!

 

Knowing how much the kids were enjoying them, I made up a quick game for them.  I set up the cylinders on the steps and assigned Krash 2 color and Ladybug one color.

They had to hold the block in their tongs and run to set it upright on the stool in the back.  The giggles  were AWESOME!!!  You can see Pac in the background doing his schoolwork, he loved sneaking a peek at them!

 

Ladybug was so good at the game, it shows me how “old” she is!  It was so much fun to watch, I am sure we will be playing the tong game again soon!

 

The 2nd most played with toy this week was the drawer full of Mr. Potato Heads.  Ladybug built SO many funny creatures!

Magneatos were out several times…

 

We had our schoolroom decked out for our pirate theme this week!  Ladybug enjoyed the many props we had out ~ although the theme was specifically for Krash! Her favorite part of pirate week has definitely been the pirate books, and the pirate sensory bin.

 

The pirate sensory bin was out every day and we used the contents to work on various activities.

Ladybug loved the little black marbles and gathered them all…

Worked on tonging them into a sorting tray…

Even poked them into her mini whisk {also got at the Kitchen Collection store}

 

 

The 2 littles coloring together.

Reading in our bean bag chair, which she often does.

 

 

 

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