Ted's Tot School: 5 Little Monkeys

Today's tot school focused on the song "5 Little Monkeys" the printables came from 1+1+1=1 blog which is where most of my printables will be coming from because it is just an awesome blog. I recommend it to anyone wanting to do some schooling at home with their little ones. Of just fun activities to do with kids.

Here is my bucket all ready to go in the morning. I laminated the games but I was only able to use 1 of the 3 games I made because Ted is just not old enough for them yet.

We started off by singing "5 Little Monkeys" with the printed out cards to go with it. The kids put each monkey in the envelope after it fell off the bed. 

Then we did a Do-A-Dot activitiy with monkeys and a big M. I was not really teaching letters with the kids just some pre-writing skills.

Then for the first time ever we did Q-tip dots, The kids were actually a lot cleaner with this activity than I thought they would be. Ted was more interested in  painting with the Q-tip than making dots.  

And of course we taped up our finished artwork to the easel. You will notice the top picture has a mouse on it instead of a monkey... I don't think the kids noticed ;)

Ted's Tot School: Chicka Chicka Book Boom

We had a tot school based on the book "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" 

I found some online printables but I don't have the link for them. Ted and his daycare buddy made a do-a-dot coconut alphabet tree and an activity where they glued shapes onto a coconut tree. 

I am super proud of Ted's tree which is the one on the right. All I did was put the glue on the pieces and Ted put them on the tree exactly where they go. He is my baby genius... yes I am super biased. 

Ted loves to paint. When he paints with me all the paint stays on the easel. When he paints with daddy somehow this happens :)  

This pick is from last Friday. The kids were all grumpy and ready to take naps. I looked over at Ted and he was sitting by himself looking at a book quietly. :)   

Ted and his new baby radio.  

Ted's Tot School: Brown Bear

I got some printables from the blog 1+1+1=1 that go with the book 

"Brown Bear Brown Bear, What do you see?"

I did not get too many pictures of Ted in action. 

There is a matching game to match two halves of the animals. 

There is also a little coloring book that Ted colored along as I read the book to him. The top book focuses on shapes. Ted and I went through the book and traced the different shapes. 

Ted's Tot School: If you give a mouse a cookie

I saw the idea of Tot School on a few of the blogs I follow. It is basically playing with your tot with a purpose. 

Ted has the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie". His aunt gave him the book from her Happy Meal from McDonalds. It is awesome when the Happy Meal toy is a book. :) 

I printed off some coloring pages and do-a-dot pages for ted to work on. 

Here is his artwork display.

Afterwards we made some cookies. 

Ted has to taste test the chocolate chips to make sure they would work. 

Ted eating his cookie :) 

And here is just a picture of Ted eating a taco. I was super impressed that he figured out how to eat it and that he wanted seconds :)