Hi everyone! Welcome to Teeny Tot Tuesday, where the Teeny Tot has officially started doing some of my Letter of the Week activities! She is on the Letter B this week, and so she did a mix of B is for Butterfly and B is for Ballerina activities.   Here she is working on her lacing skills. This takes some patience, repetition, and time. She likes to skip over holes, so I remind her to get each one. I like to teach them to go up from the bottom in every hole to start out with, then later we can move on to some more fancy stitching options.   The Teeny Tot loves puzzles, these 6 piece puzzles are a great beginning set for tiny tots. Its great for logical thinking skills and since the puzzles only have 6 pieces, the children tend to be able to figure them out on their own after a few tries. I’ve had a few questions on how old I recommend starting Letter of the Week activities, and the answer depends. I tend to start these around age 3.5, but it really … [Read more...]

Hi and welcome to Teeny Tot Tuesday! I’m starting to add in some of my Letter of the Week items for her, but still keeping it fun with educational games and activities. Since she loves Do-A-Dot Markers, I thought I’d let her start with some of those. This is actually my letter A magnet page, but she’s using it with a Do-A-Dot marker instead. Normally I’d use these with Power Magnets.   Next up the Teeny Tot wanted to make a pattern with her Perler BIggie Beads. You can see how focused she is here.   After completing one row of beads, she looked up and said “Take my picture.”     One of the things that has been consistent in our homeschooling has been our iPad. I’ve shared several posts on educational iPad apps for kiddos so you can see some of the things we do. The below game is a new favorite called Quizzing Toddler Preschool by Toddler Teasers.   Just to kick off our Letter of the Week activities, we … [Read more...]

Welcome to Teeny Tot Tuesday where  you get to see how I attempt to keep my toddler busy and engaged during school time. Our Teeny Tot is 3 years old now and she’s quite the busy bee. She likes to participate in school, and is pretty good about working through her own activities, but sometimes she goes and gets other things to play with and that’s fine with me. Our school “stuff” is pretty open to her. I don’t really limit the use of our school games.  I figure if people are having fun learning, who cares if it’s during official “school hours” or not? We’re trying to work on counting these days. One of the kits I’ve had around for years is the Lakeshore Learning See & Solve Manipulative Kit.  I just grabbed numbers 1-5 (the kit comes with 0-9) and then enough disks to let her put the correct amount by each number. After she was done counting, she just played with the disks adding and taking them off the pegs.     I also let her … [Read more...]