Lil’man is 25 months
This week we continued looking at the whole alphabet. I was hoping to start letter specific activities, but our printer is out of ink and I was shocked by how expensive the ink has gotten. It would be cheaper for us to buy a new printer than buy ink cartridges!
Our first day of Tot School, Ethan played with his Fisher-Price Animal Zoo. This isn’t just a Tot School toy. However, he usually just plays with the animals and not the mat. When you press a letter on the mat it will say the letter and animal or you can set it to make the animal sound. We of course had it set to the letter names. Lil’man correctly matched all animals to their letters.
Another Christmas gift, that I was very excited about was Leap Frog’s Tag Junior. The best way for me to describe it is a book on tape without the tape. Besides reading the text it ask questions and each book has other bonus features, such as instrument sounds in our ABC Animal Orchestra book. (Side Note: I got the ABC book for FREE in July before I even knew about Tag Junior, thanks to Freebies 4 Mom. As of December it was still available. Check out what you have to do at Freebies 4 Mom. Can’t beat saving $10!!)
I also pulled out an infant book, Little Scholastic Colors. You know the ones with one word under a picture. I had Lil’man read them to me. At first he wasn’t going for it, but with a little encouragement and prompting he soon caught on and told me all about what was on the pages.
Our second day of Tot School seemed to be a little more challenging for him. The first activity wasn’t so bad, but the spoon I picked wasn’t the best. In the activity below, I hid Letter Tiles in rice. (I got the Letter Tiles at Walmart years ago for under $5 when I was still teaching.) Lil’man had to find the hidden letters and name it. Of course he gave the letter sound as well. Unfortunately, the spoon wasn’t big enough to hold the square tiles and the rice. When he would shake the spoon to try to get rid of the rice the tile would fall off too. So, he ended up just picking the tiles out with his fingers.
Finally, the hardest activity for him this week was tweezing. I just used eye brow tweezers and I think they were a little small for his hand. He has never done tweezing activities, so I think he might have been better if I had tweezers that were easier to grasp. He ended up just poking at the pom poms, instead of pinching them. So, I have a few questions for you ladies. How did you introduce tweezing to your child? How old was your kiddo when you introduced them? What type of tweezers did you use? Where did you get them? Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated. 🙂
Well, that was our 2 days of Tot School. Thanks for stopping by and don’t miss out on what other tots did this week! Visit 1+1+1=1.