Tot School Week of 5.15

Tot School Week of 5.15

R-man is 13.5 months old

Old McDonald Had a Farm

This little leap frog toy is GREAT for fine motor skills, placing the head and tail of the animals together in the magnetic space...and it plays the animal sounds, too!

R-man is particullarly found of the chick at the top....

To the Beat of My heart!

Makin' Music

Yeup, we drum, play the piano, tap on a xylophone, sing nursery rhymes, shake rattles, make our own shakers out of old toilet paper rolls, and listen to toddler tunes on Tuesday mornings before our Music Together class in the city!

Small Objects in a Bottle:

He is a PRO at this now!! He loves putting things in bottles. I sometimes do this activity before bed because it takes so much focus and really calms him down. in this pic he is putting qtips in a bottle. 

Sorting:

sorting green pom poms into a muffin tin!

when he gets older, we'll work on sorting by color, but right now, I just want him to get the idea of putting the pom poms into a separate space.  He more wanted to put them all into the same hole, which is a form of sorting (putting all of the same together) in its own right.

Stacking:

He is so fast at this now!

These are great toys! I have to press it down after he puts it on though bc it takes a little bit more muscle than he has to actually lock each color together.

Puzzle Play:

Fabulous way to learn giraff, zebra, monkey, elephant, lion and tiger.

we've got all down except the lion and tiger.

LET'S PLAY WITH THINGS THAT ARE BLUE!

Pouring BLUE water using a BLUE cup!!

Making Music out of Anything! 

I am encouraging music with this tot and he loves it! He's got an excellent BEAT and can bang along to any song! So we made a drum out of this tub, before it was used to play  with water.