Basic Learning Pack

My first Learning Pack is ready! I have been working very hard at this as I wanted something that covered a lot of the basics but didn't really have a theme. I wanted it to be something that we could use over and over again through out the school year. 

It has 50 pages plus ideas and tips for using it!

Included:

Alphabet match

Flash cards

Word cards

Numbers

Counting

Prewriting Practice

Sorting Colors

Shapes

Size Sorting

Sentence Practice

Addition

Subtraction

Missing Numbers

Count by 2's, 5's, and 10's

Plenty to use during the school year for Preschool, Pre-K, or Kindergarten! 

You can get it HERE 

It is on sale for $4.50 for 8/29-8/31 

(sale price shows on page of product)

 Returns to $6.00 September 1st! 

It will go great with my Alphabet and Number Tracing Pages!

Enjoy! 

Tot School: Letter Nn

(Dylan is 41 months)

This week we focused on the Letter Nn, Counting 1-5, Patterns, Sorting by size.

Here he was sorting the Letter Nn into capital and lowercase letters. COAH

  

 We worked on some counting 1-5. I know he can do this now and we will be moving on to 1-10 shortly!

 We worked on putting a puzzle together. This was his first time doing a big kid puzzle and he did really well with it!

 We worked on AB patterns and he has this down to a pat and we will be adding AAB patterns in next week or so.

 A little more counting!

 And then he got a little creative with his blog and the green blog was the Angry Bird pic and the little alien toy in the background is his bird and he was trying to knock down the tower! I loved how he used him imagination with this!

I am thinking that we are going to start transitioning out of Tot School and into more of a Preschool age activities as he seems to get bored with Tot School lately because he knows how to do everything so quickly. I am ready to start challenging him more.

Tot School

(Dylan is 41 months)

Last week for school we focused on the letter C, Number 2, Color red, Directional words like over and under, and Animals and their young. 

 Letter C coloring sheet.

Number 2 coloring sheet.

Directional word worksheet. He had to circle the things that are over the rainbow a certain color as well as circle the things below in a different color.

Working on his animal worksheet. We talked about the different names of the baby animals.

 Dylan coloring his red worksheets.

We have also taken a field trip to our local zoo. Dylan got to hold a bird for the first time!

The meerkats.

The red panda's in the tree

Dylan loved the chimpanzee was hiding under a bag. 

We also got to see the new baby elephant.

And the boys enjoyed getting to see what the animals in the Herpetarium eat. 

We had a great week!

Halloween Counting PowerPoint

I know its only September but I just got Microsoft Office and since it has PowerPoint I had to give it a go! 

So I went with a Halloween theme that will match up with my Halloween Tot Kit

You can get the PowerPoint HERE

I hope you all enjoy the PowerPoint and would love to hear your feedback so please leave a comment if you liked it. If I get a good feedback I will be working on more!

Letter A and B Tot School

(Dylan is 40 months)

The past two weeks we have focused on the following

Letter A

Letter B

Number 1

Shapes

Colors

Here are a few pictures from our 2 weeks!

He had to have a backpack because big brother had to have one for school.

Working on his letter A craft from Totally Tots.

Letter A matching from COAH.

Apple Do A Dot activity

Prewriting Practice worksheet

Letter A Tracing from my Alphabet Tracing Sheets

Letter B Coloring sheet from my Letter B for Bumblebee

Find the Number 1 Worksheet

Bear Graphing for the Number 1 (not sure where I got this if you know please let me know so I can link up)

And some color sorting!

Its taking a little bit to get back in the swing of things with only one child to school! I have also started college myself so this blog has taken the back burner just a bit! I hope to have some new printables soon! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Summer BBQ Tot Kit

Here is my newest Tot Kit! I will be using it with our Summer Fun theme next week! Will be posting on that tomorrow!

(click image to download)
 

Included:

Alphabet Tracers

Counting Burgers

Burger Size Sort

Pre-writing Practice

Flashcards

3 Part Puzzles

It's not as big as my normal kits because I only planned on using it for a week this time! Although be ready for more Tot Kits and Preschool Packs (these will be new as Dylan will be preschool aged next school year so I am working on preparing him).

I'll be back tomorrow with a Summer Theme full of fun ideas! This will be the first of many themes I am using this summer! 

Also the How to Teach Series will return next week!

How to Teach Series Part #4

Gross Motor Skills

Gross Motor Skills are skills that improve the large muscles in the body.

Here are several activities to help with Gross Motor Skills

• Balancing- Draw a line on the sidewalk with sidewalk chalk and have them try to stay on the line. Using a curb will also help or gardening edging would work as well. 
• Dancing- We like to play dance freeze here. I play music and they dance and when the music goes off we freeze. You can also do things like hokey pokey and songs like that.
• Obstacle Course- Make an obstacle course where they have to climb over things go under things you can even through in balancing and other fun things!
• Swimming- Kicking their legs in the pool and using their arms to swim is great for building muscles.
• Playing Pretend- Waddle like a duck, gallop like a horse, stiff legged robots, soaring like planes. 
• Riding a Tricycle, scooter, ride on toys
• Throwing and catching a ball
• Playing tag, follow the leader, red light green light, simon says, duck duck goose.
• Swinging, sliding, running, climbing, and jumping.

These are all really good for Gross Motor Skills!

If you can think of anymore leave a comment to share with everyone!

Next Tuesday we will go through how to teach Numbers.

How to Teach Series Part #1

 

I had this idea and figured it'd be a great resource for homeschoolers. And since I won't be on as much for the next 2 to 3 weeks as my mom is flying in to spend time with us. I figured I'd start this now and space some posts out for while I'm offline.

So the first part of my series is going to focus on the Alphabet. It will cover letter sounds, identifying letters, how to write letters, and fun techniques for teaching letters.

Identifying Letters

• Letter of the Week Activities - you can either buy the whole curriculum at once from COAH or under her Alphabet tab find each letter separately!
• Letter Coloring Sheets
• Letter Color by Numbers

 

Letter Sounds

• At out house we have a song for learning letter sounds. We kinda make up what word we use for each letter each time but it starts a-a-apple, b-b-ball, c-c-cat, d-d-dog, and so on just make up the word as you do it. Its fun for the kids and they don't even realize they are learning the sounds.

• We also just say the letter and sound with a word that begins when we have a letter of focus.

Writing Letters

• Letter Tracing worksheets
• Letter Writing Salt Box
• Letter Builders- uppercase- lowercase

Curriculum that focuses on Letters

• Raising Rock Stars Preschool
• Tot School Printables

Fun Letter Activities

• Alphabet Crafts
• Play-dough Letters
• Letter Collages
• Alphabet Do-A-Dot Pictures- Letters A-M, N-Z

Alphabet Movies

Several movies and show my boys love are what I am linking to.

I am sure there are plenty of great alphabet movies out there!

Leapfrog Letter Factory

Welcome to Word World (this is how Austin learned his letters)

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The rest of the series will cover numbers, unit studies, science, getting ready to read, math, life skills, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, circle time.

See ya in a few days with another part of this series!

Tot School- Letter A

(Dylan is 35 months)

This past week for Tot School I decided to change things up a bit and take a bit more of a sit down and do worksheets approach as Dylan is way more interested in that at this point. He always wants to do what Austin is doing and so I knew I needed to find something for him! Luckily Carisa at 1+1+1=1 just came up with Tot School Printables! Perfect for where Dylan is and he absolutely loved having sit down work.

Our theme of the week was Apples. We covered letter A, numbers 1-10,  colors, shapes and fruit names.

Here we were discussing the Letter A, The sound it makes and the word apple.

We named the shapes and as I called out a shape he covered it with an eraser.

We named the numbers 1-10 and then counted the apples on each number. He then had to place an eraser on the number as I called it out.

We colored the apples the right colors. Then he matched the crayons to the apples.

We named the fruits.

We were coloring on the apples but he decided to trace the Letter Aa. He did great for his first letter tracing.

Naming things that start with A. Then he colored on the paper.

Stamping the Apple with the Letter A. Each time he stamped we made the sound of the letter.

Matching the capital A to lowercase a on the apples.

Tracing the lines from Capital A to lowercase A

Putting the Apple puzzles together.

Tracing the Letter A again.

How we eat an apple sequencing. He did really good on this and like it alot.

We got out our red Dot Marker and he dotted the letter Aa and said the sound and letter each time.

We really enjoyed these new printable and are hoping to get to Letter B this week!