More Tot School

Today Liliana and I were able to enjoy some more Tot school time. To Find out more about Tot School please click here We had fun! Today I introduced the sensory tub (rice and counting bears). Liliana enjoyed playing in the tub. She enjoyed the rice so much that I let her explore (run i through her hands and then onto the table and floor). She then even enjoyed walking on the rice. I am sure we will try the sensory tubs again soon! (Just not with rice!). We beaded and worked with the shape sorter! Here are a few pictures:
Stacking Rings

New Shades

shape Sorter

Sensory Tub

Walking on Rice

More Family Fun

Today Liliana and I went to church. We then came home cleaned house and worked on an art project. I have had a busy week and therefore have not been able to stick with my Preschool activities for her, but we fit this one in today. Then we had fun playing with puzzles and doing laundry. The caterpillar eyes were placed by Liliana, its unique to her. Here are a few pictures.
Getting Started

More Circles

Finished Product

Puzzles

Playing with Grandma

Items needed for the caterpillar
1 8x10 piece of construction paper, for the circles
1 8x10 piece of construction paper, for the background
Glue
Black Crayon
1 set of medium sized google eyes
1 pipe cleaner cut into 2 1' pieces (color of your choice).
To complete the Caterpillar
Cut or let your child cut 5 3inch circles.
Place on a piece of construction paper, each circle overlapping a little bit
Then place googly eyes on the Caterpillar.
Then cut pipe cleaners into 1' pieces for the antenna's
With a black crayon create legs along the bottom of the caterpillar.

Circles, Circles!

On Friday night Liliana and I created an ice cream cone!Its a great addition to our circle theme!
Ready,Set Glue

Writing our name on the back

The finished Product(we forgot the cherry)

To complete this activity you will need:
Glue
Scissors(depending on age level)
1 8x12 piece of blue construction paper
1 brown triangle, from construction paper
3-5 3" circles in various colors
1 1" red circle
markers or crayons

There are various ways of completing this activity. One way is to draw the matching shapes onto the construction paper so your child can match the shapes, or simply let them place the shapes onto the construction paper. Depending upon the child's age they can cut out their own circles. Have child place the cherry on top of their ice cream. You can also let your child decorate their ice cream with fudge and sprinkles. As your completing the activity talk about the shapes. If your child is an older preschooler you can also play I spy things that are circles game, and discuss how shapes are all around them!

Update on the new adventure

So I have been gathering information and items for our new homeschooling adventure. Thus far I have paints, crayons, and paper. Today I brought home a ton of Cd's from work and copied them for us to have a copy at home. I also have a wall calendar with several activities that I purchased at the teacher supply store. I want to purchase a white board, felt, play-doh, markers, and art supplies!Ok So I couldn't wait to get started. Here is my outline for the circle theme:
Thursday:Today we made a snow man. adapted http://jennwa.blogspot.com/
Friday: Felt Circle Match and Ice Cream cone
Saturday: Cereal Circle
Sunday: Stop Light
Monday:Tangrams
Tuesday:Shape sort using cereal and Caterpillar
Wednesday:Snow man mobile adapted from: http://jennwa.blogspot.com/
Today we started with the snowman. For this activity you need:


1 sheet of dark construction paper
cotton swabs
paint
white crayon
Instructions: 1. Draw of have the child draw the outline of the snowman on the piece of construction paper with the white crayon. Have child use Cotton swab to fill in the outline with white paint Let dry. Then allow the child to paint a face, scarf, hat, and arms for the snowman, still using the cotton swabs. As we completed the activity I talked to Liliana about each dab being a circle. As she is so young I decided to keep my instruction and interactions simple using only key words such as circle. I also only presented Liliana with one color at a time.
*IDEA: Use muffin tin for placing paint in (aluminum ones work GREAT)!