Today we started Toddler School and we both really enjoyed ourselves.  It was nice to be working one on one with Mikayla and I think she enjoyed the structured time as well.  She has had a lot of "free" time lately with the twins being around.  She is so smart and caught on to things so quickly.  I think she would have kept at it all day, but I didn’t want to use all my ideas up the first day.  The only thing she wasn’t crazy about were songs, so I think I will have to sneak those in at first!  She did like our goodbye song though.  The plan right now is to allot two hours in the morning to "school" and then see how it goes from there.  Today we had about 1.5 hours of structured time and then some independent learning time.  She has been asking for school since this morning so I think she enjoyed it.  I wish I could upload the video of her talking about her first day of school, but the Internet is just too slow for that.  Maybe one day!  She woke up this morning excited about choosing her clothes, clips and hairstyle for her first day of school.  Here are some picture highlights of her at school.

Cheering for school.  She wanted to stand next to her learning baskets of school things.

So grown up!

Counting money in egg cartons.  She got pretty good at 1 to 1 correspondence today.  She knows how to count to 12, but has never been really good at counting objects.

Alphabet soup sensory tub.  This is one I made awhile ago before the twins came, but we haven’t gotten to use very much.  She spent a lot of time doing this today and got really good at digging for the letter M.

She was very proud of of M Muffin art project.  She basically colored a muff and then glued M circles (pretend they are the berries in a muffin) on top of the muffin.  When it was finished she tried to unglue them and start again!

Another favorite activity, felt Monkeys jumping in the bed. 

These weren’t all the activities we did, but just a few I managed to snap a picture of.  I hope the rest of this week is as fun as today was!  If anyone runs across any good letter, number, shape or color activities send them my way because I am just thinking of stuff off the top of my head, can’t really spend hours searching on the Internet for ideas. 

Tags: Growing up, Mikayla, Toddler School

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