We had a very good week. We are using HOD’s Little Hands to Heaven along with some extras. We did some color association, letter A, number 1, and read about Creation in our first Bible.
Color Association
Letter A
Sandpaper Letters and Wiki Stix
Math
Singapore Earlybird 1a
Gluing 1 tree onto our LHTH No. 1 sheet.
Bible
Pretending the scarf is a slithering snake.
Just for fun
Wiggles working on an old computer with his “tools”.
We had a pretty good first week.
LHTH-UNIT 5
Letter-Ee
Number-6
Bible-Joseph becomes a leader.
Practicing tracing sandpaper letters for the letters we have learned so far.
I somehow skipped the Wikki Stix when we learned the letter Dd, but I remembered today when we introduced Ee. He loves the Wikki Stix and will do them proper for a few minutes then he piles more and more on until he grows tired of it and he will help pick them all up and place them back in our ziploc bag.
Here is our finished number 6 worksheet. We glued 6 pictures of pillows onto our paper.
I don’t know how many Tuesdays at Tinytown we will be having from now on out. It was very fun, but I think we will be taking an extended break from there.
Now on to Tot School!
This is a really neat puzzle game for toddlers. I have the Classic Pooh hide & seek game. I found it on sale at Target. I can’t find it on their web site now, but Toys R Us has several different ones including Disney Princesses. Wiggles really enjoys this. You can click on the picture to follow a link to Toys R Us and the product. It is recommended for ages 18 months-3 years.
This picture is actually from the weekend, but I thought I would throw it in. Wiggles and Big Sisters were coloring on the driveway.
This week:
LHTH-Letter C, Number 3, God Blesses Abraham
Abeka-Letter C, Number 3, Finger play Clap with Me
Baby Signs-Mealtime Signs
I wanted to share our finger play for this week for Abeka. It is really cute and the little ones genuinely join in pretty quickly.
Clap with Me
Clap with me. 1,2,3
Clap, clap, clap, just like me.
(Clap hands)
Shake with me. 1,2,3
Shake, shake, shake, just like me.
(Shake body)
Roll with me. 1,2,3
Roll, roll, roll, just like me.
(Roll hands one over the other.)
Snap with me. 1,2,3
Snap, snap, snap, just like me.
(Snap fingers)
Fold with me. 1,2,3
Fold, fold, fold, just like me.
(Fold hands and lay them in lap.)
First we did our Wiki Stiks for the letter C. I gave no instruction since this is our 3rd letter and her did pretty good on his own. 
We are cutting from our Let’s Cut Paper! Kumon First Steps Workbook. He had to cut down the middle (still working on cutting skills…he wants to use both hands for the scissors) then match the front to the back of the car.
This was our Cc page for Abeka today. You had to fingerprint paint the C. He did really well and we didn’t even get messy!!
Here, he is working on his concept cards for Baby Signs. I wanted to get a picture of him signing so badly, but every time I would get the camera and snap the picture it would always be just after he was finishing the sign. Baby signs is really great at building vocabulary and limiting frustrations in a toddler. I would recommend it to anyone with an infant or toddler.
Even though he is talking more and more…there are times when his emotions and temperament get in the way of his vocalizing what he wants or needs. Signs can be such a great benefit to the child and the parent.
They also have a potty learning program to help train your child. I can’t recommend this enough.
Wiggles watching the Potty Train video by Baby Signs. Here he is getting on the Potty Train (choo choo).
We were supposed to color the cups, but Wiggles was having none of it so instead I numbered them and we counted a few times to end our Tot School day.
We did our sandpaper letters first. We reviewed A and introduced B. We did trace these but I have no pictures of that b/c he spotted the wikki stix before I could snap a shot and he was quickly done with the sandpaper letters. In an earlier post, there is a guide to using sandpaper letters as well as the site of where I got my wonderful wood backed sandpaper letters. These are meant to last. No cardboard paper here. I will make a label as soon as I am done with this post and link all the sandpaper letter posts if anyone is interested. You can also make your own and I will link lots of free printouts and instructions to that soon also.
Once again, I decided less direction on the letter we had already introduced. He did Aa all by himself. B was guided b/c we hadn't had it before. I let him just do what he wants with the pictures. By the time we were through, the ant had about 30 legs and the butterfly was a wad of pink wikki stix.
If you haven't gotten wikki stix, they are great for fine motor skills and learning the formation of the letters. I don't separate ours, he has to pull each one apart from the stack. This is really great for the pincer grip. The cards that we use are the Wikki Stix Alphabet Fun Cards for Learning. I got mine at Therapro.com and they are well worth the money. They are only $13.95 and if you order $35 in an internet order you get free shipping. This is a great site. You can click on the Wikki Stix picture below and it will take you to their site.
We also introduced the number 2 in LHTH today. We were supposed to find in a magazine or print out 2 hands to cut out and glue. Wiggle Worm was not wanting to leave the wikki stix and he isn't that great at cutting and gluing yet...so instead I traced his hands in 2 different color crayons and wrote 1 and 2 in them. This was much better and engaging for us b/c he got frustrated last week with the cutting and gluing. He really got into it being his hands and we counted the hands on the page and his real hands several times.
We will be going back through LHTH as a 3 year old next year and I think we will do more cutting and pasting then. To save stress and frustration on his part and mine. I will cut out or adapt the lessons for his level of ability for now. We will be practicing our cutting and pasting with our Kumon First Steps workbooks. They seem more on the level of a 2 year old boy.
This is our Hands-on Fun from A to Z Wikki Stix Alphabet Learning Cards. Wow that was a mouthful.
Still checking out the Wikki Stix
Our Finished Aa Ant Wikki Stix Card (our ant has some issues :) )
Coloring with our Kumon Let's Color book (look I'm a lefty)
Wait I am a righty
