These were some of the ones we borrowed from the library. He especially loved the Tonka trucks book and I Drive a Bulldozer.
On Monday we spent about 45 minutes to an hour doing Tot School. Most of this time was spent doing playdoh:) Our first tray was counting big machines with pom pom magnets. He loved the magnets! He was pretty good with the counting at first, but lost interest pretty quickly and just wanted to play with the magnets.
Our next tray we colored bulldozers. This was interesting! James really has no idea how to hold a pen and more than once he tried to put it in his mouth. I guess we need to work on this skill. He is getting better with colors. Every time I think he knows them though, he calls them all by the wrong name. This was challenging because the bulldozers were so small and it was hard for him to hold the paper still and color. As you can see there is marker all over the tray!
After coloring I had him try to match the colored pom pom to the colored bulldozer. He did pretty good with this and only missed a few of them.
Our last tray we worked on name recognition.
Then we finished up the morning with playdoh. I found this cute construction themed playdoh at Walmart and it was a big hit! He loved loading the dirt into the dumptruck and dumping it. He could have played with this for much longer, but little brother woke up and we had to go get him.
On Tuesday we spent about thirty minutes doing Tot School and we worked through his counting and coloring trays again. Then I got out his toy drill. This was a new toy that I bought a while ago and was saving it for a "rainy day". I thought it would be good to introduce this week with our theme. He had played with this at a friends house and loved it! He thought it was just like daddy's.
It was good motor skill practice changing the drill bits and working the screws into the holes.
The rest of the day he was busy fixing things and drilling everything!
Wednesday we didn't end up doing much. We got a lot of snow during the night and woke up to about six inches. School was cancelled and we decided to go out and shovel and play in the snow while Ethan was sleeping.
I did get out a new puzzle with different latches and doors to open. James was able to get most of them without help. The chain was probably the most difficult and frustrating for him, but he kept working at it. I was surprised how easily he got most of them.
Thursday was our last day of Tot School for the week. I had planned to do a sensory bin and a fun "nuts and bolts" snack mix, but I ran out of time and energy. This is the challenging part for me. I am finding that you have to be super organized and prepared early in the week or else I just run out of steam. It's definitely a lot of work for a short period of activity. However, I think it's good for James. Since we are probably not going to do any formal preschool I feel like it's important to expose him to some of these early learning skills while he enjoys them and is able to easily grasp them. Hopefully over time I will get better at the planning and organization skills.
The last day we did his Big Machines "mini book". He looked at them and named each one.
Last we did counting with dot paint.
He loved this! He loves the dot paints and they are easy for him to manipulate. He put a dot on each one while I counted them.
I also had him pick out each number from a line to see which ones he readily recognized. He did good with numbers 1-6 and then he started to lose interest. Very short attention spans with 2 year olds!
All in all I thought the week went well and it was really fun! We are taking a break this week and next week I am planning to do a spring theme.
Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.
~Proverbs 16:3
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