Tot School

Samuel is 15.5 months

We are slowly getting some structure back into our day after our 3 week Easter break. We continued with our Autumn theme this week and went walking to look at all the autumn leaves and collect some. I forgot to take my camera so have no photos of this but we had a lot of fun.

We also did some more dot painting using Autumn colours to decorate some leaves.

We have just started using Tot Trays. I put these out when the big kids are doing their school work in the hopes that Samuel will be occupied enough for us to get some work done. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

This week on our trays we had:

transferring giant pom poms

Putting pop sticks into a cream container. He loved this and did it over and over and over all week!

And, putting plastic coins into a slot.

He also spent loads of time playing with our new foam alphabet floor puzzle. He loved playing with this, mostly pulling letters out and scattering them throughout the house for me to try and find later.

We got a new puppy this week, so Samuel spent a lot of time loving on "Molly". I think they will be very good friends. I caught them today with Molly drinking her milk out of her bowl and Samuel down on all fours next to her with his face in it too!! I wish I had had my camera handy but given that he is allergic to cows milk I didn't particularly want to leave him there while I found it.

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Tot School - Holidays

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 Samuel is 15.5 months old

Despite school being back last week, we are still in holiday mode.  One of the benefits of homeschooling is we can start when we are ready - I definitely wasn't ready this week!  So not much planned learning for tot school this week, but lots of life.

Samuel enjoyed playing with the autumn sensory box I made for him.

I let him have a go on the blackboard with some chalk, which he absolutely loved.  It was very short lived though because he loved eating the chalk even more than drawing with it!

Samuel played with the playdoh for the first time, but wasn't too impressed it with.  He poked it a few times and that was about it.  He liked it when I cut animal shapes out of it for him though.

Apart from this he spent most of the week practicing his favourite thing to do at the moment - climbing.  He climbed play equipment, study chairs, lounges and anything else he could find.

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The Maze

This week was the last week of school holidays before we start term 2. At the start of the week we went for a visit to The Maze. There are four mazes and a spider web for the children (and adults) to solve as well as mini golf, koalas, kangaroos and emus and heaps of room to run and play. The kids absolutely loved it and we will definitely be coming back again.

May Sensory Box - Autumn

Autumn is finally here- Yay!!! Its only about 2 months late. Our sensory box this month is celebrating that fact.

Our sensory box contains the following items:

Autumn coloured pasta

Insects to dig for

Glow in the dark insect bands

Autumn coloured glass stones

Some autumn seed pods we collected from the park

Autumn leaves

And of course, some digging and pouring and collecting tools!

All three kids love the sensory box. Samuel really enjoyed this one and amazingly didn't try to eat the pasta!

There was lots of sorting and ordering and imaginative play happening from Liana and Liam, and of course, this was Samuel's favourite position to be in!

History

This term I started History again with Liana and Liam. We are repeating what I did with Liana when she was 5, but she doesn't seem to mind and enjoys being able to remember a lot of what we are covering. Liam is enjoying doing History for the first time. We are using Biblioplan with Story of The World as our spine.

The last couple of weeks we have been working our way through Ancient Egypt. We have practices using hieroglyphics and cuneiform





Made sugar cube pyramids






Made mummies






and a sacrcophagus to put our mummy in.





History is sooo much fun!!