Tot School

Connor is 24 months old

We have had record breaking heat this past week in Sydney, so a lot of our time has been spent in the swimming pool. Tot School has continued but with only a few planned activities.

To continue with our Christmas activities, we painted Christmas trees. I cut out Christmas trees from green cardstock and provided Connor with sponges so he could stamp designs on to the trees.

The following day, Connor and I worked on our first paper chain. I prepared green and red strips of paper ahead of time, and Connor helped by handing me the strips in alternating colours while I stapled them together. This was a great introduction to patterning. We used the painted Christmas trees with the paper chain as Christmas decorations.

For our Modelling Day, I gave Connor Christmas cookie cutters. All that was missing was green and red play dough. I will have to make up some fresh play dough for next week.

Another thing I pulled out this week was some of our Christmas puzzles. He become really excited as he likes anything to do with Santa Claus. Last year, Connor was scared of Santa Claus and would cry when we approached him at the shopping centre. I’m hoping that this year will be different.

While I was doing some re-organizing, Connor spotted his old shape sorter. He sat down and did it once. He was more interested in the names of the shapes then locating the appropriate hole for the shape. In fact, he has been doing this quite often; sitting down with a group of objects and just asking the names for the items.

Other things Connor worked on was a large floor puzzle of a scene at the airport and sorting his blocks according to colour.

 

Our big discovery outside this week was a cacoon. Connor examined it and then gently placed it in a pot plant. After some research, we found out that this was a Case Moth.

        

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