Have you been missing my Toddler School updates? Well, so have we! We have actually not had "school" in several weeks and I have been itching to jump back into it. Since it is winter back in the states and I want Mikayla to be aware of different seasons (besides just hot, hotter and hottest) I decided to do a mini winter unit and focus on the letter W. Looking back on it I probably should have just done the Letter S for snow since most of our activities were snow related, but oh well! Like most weeks I had too much planned, meetings came up or Mikayla lost interest, so we will continue with some of our winter activities next week when we begin our letter P study (penguins and polar bears). Here are some of the fun winter things we did this past week.
We first took snowballs and practiced spelling her name…
…then we took those same snowballs and made a really large name snowman!
Thanks to the Cate’s for their wonderful shape button donation I made this game for Mikayla. At the top of each pipe cleaner (or ski poles as Mikayla called them) I attached a picture of a different shape. She then "laced" the buttons onto the correct one. She worked really hard at this game.
When she was finished she took the "ski poles" and went skiing…just like Grandma and Grandpa Kickert!
To make this game I took empty toilet paper rolls and wrapped construction paper around them. Then labeled with a number and a corresponding number of stickers. For this game she would look at the numbers (or count the stickers) and place that many snowballs inside (pom poms). I know snowballs are traditionally white, but I didn’t have enough so we went with colored snow…who doesn’t love that?!
This game is not winter related at all, but I have had it in my head for a long time now…I just needed enough empty match boxes to make it. I wrapped empty match boxes in construction paper and then labeled the outside with capital letters. The inside is filled with lowercase letters. Her job was to match the two and complete the match box. You could also use magnetic letters for the inside (matching capital to capital as well). Eventually I would like to make a number set and as she gets older a spelling game with the whole word on the outside and letters on inside to form the word…but that is way in the future!
Button snowman game. She rolled a dice and placed that many buttons on the snowman.
We went on a white scavenger hunt around the house and found white items to make a collage with.
On this particular day she wanted to color, so I quickly drew a family of snowmen for her to color.
Shape snowman – I gave her direction on where to put certain shapes to complete a snowman.
Thanks to JDR and Brittany we had some winter gummies I was able to use this week. She sorted the shapes and then of course ate a few!
W is for winter – she made a winter scene using her finger and paint as snowflakes.
A very odd looking footprint snowman. She picked out the colors and items for his accessories!
I have a special winter activity planned for the whole family that I think will take place on Sunday. I will be sure to blog about it next week!
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