Shapes, Cars and Pumpkins

~Alex is 32 months~

This week we are focusing on identifying basic shapes.

Alex wanted to read Mighty Machines by Mary Bjelobrk

We picked this up at a thrift store for like .70 cents. Its a nicely illustrated pop up book all about boats, trains, planes, helicopters, submarines and space ships, all things that Alex loves.

I made him some shape "race tracks" out of contruction paper. I thought this would entertain him a lot longer than it did (about 2 minutes), I may pull it out again later.

We played a fun game. I cut out some basic shapes out of contruction paper and layed them on the floor. I then played a fast song (Disney's The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room (Macarena Dance Version) ) and had him dance. Every so often  I would shut off the music and tell him to quickly pick up the ________ shape and put it in the bag. He thought this was a hysterical and we played it 3 rounds. He did pretty good considering we haven't really focused on shape identification before. Unfortunately I didn't get any good photos of this game though.

After we were tired out from dancing we did a piece of directional art. I had pieces to make a car pre cut and I told him where to glue and where to put the pieces to create his car. He did pretty good listening to directions. He got a little carried away with the glue, but then again this is also a very new skill for him.

Next we worked on some pumpkin washing. I was inspired to do this from Counting Coconuts post. My set up was very last minute, she had a much better setup and tools. Alex still enjoyed doing this for a few minutes.

Alex was trying to get into his paints so I decided to do an apple stamp with him. i had intended to do this project last weekend but never got around to it. We just cut a apple in half and stamped it on the paper. I added stems and faces for him and he added the green swirls.

Tot School Day 2

After this 1st week I will probably only do weekly highlights of Tot School, but right now its new to us and so much fun. Here is what we did today:

~Alex is 32 months~

 

 

 

My Car by Byron Barton

We read this book twice today. It is a great little book with simple bright illustrations. 

I got the great idea to make a colored parking lot play mat from Love and Lollipops' blog. Alex loved it and picked up the idea to match the color of the car to the parking spot right away. After a little while he even made up his own game of putting a airplane in the spot then when that colored car came along the airplane with fly away. 

We also made a traffic light out of contruction paper, clear contact paper and red, yellow and green tissue paper....

and we drove one of his Monster trucks through different colored paint and made tire tracks. 

I am linking this up to ABC and 123's Show and Tell and Mommy Adventures' Story + Art