Tot School week's review: May 4th-8th

This is a repost of an old post originally published on my wordpress blog. The xml files would not transfer to blogger so I will c&p here.

Originally posted May 9th.

Our activities for the past week.

[caption id="attachment_123" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Painting with nature! (Sticks, pine branches, pine cones, dandelions, etc.)"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_125" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Collage art"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_126" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Collage wheel"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_130" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Colored noodle stringing"][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_132" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="We added googly eyes to one end and made "snakes". This particular snake was patterned blue-blue-red."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_134" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Shelf activity set up for future independent use."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_135" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Marble painting step 1: Shaving cream on a baking pan with a tempera rainbow. "][/caption]



[caption id="attachment_136" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="step 2: using chopsticks to stir"][/caption]



[caption id="attachment_149" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Step 3: We set some paper on top of the mixture and gently applied pressure then removed. I scraped the shaving cream off the top of the paper and this is the image we got. "][/caption]



[caption id="attachment_137" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Step 4: Kids used it for fingerpainting, too. This is our friend on the right who visited us today. "][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_141" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="We put together a banging wall. I would like to add the Musical Rod and another metal tool at the bottom. "][/caption]

Here is the musical rod we made per directions at Chasing Cheerios and Family Fun.

Other fun less-directed activities. I think I might be the Queen of Plastic Toys and I'm not proud of it since we are trying to clear more plastic out of our house. :-P

[caption id="attachment_140" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="A favorite: Rice table play w/animals, trucks & cups. I need to change this one more time to a different sensory material and play items before it moves outside for warm weather sand/water play."][/caption]



[caption id="attachment_139" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Counting bears free play & color ID w/2y4m & 3y3m"][/caption]



[caption id="attachment_133" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="A couple of the kids love to load the dump truck and drive it around. This day it was animals from the farm."][/caption]



[caption id="attachment_127" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="I changed the block shelf around and it saw more action this week!"][/caption]



[caption id="attachment_119" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="Puzzle time. "][/caption]



[caption id="attachment_117" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Color Forms for the Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear. They love to retell the stories. "][/caption]

And my 4y9m old completed some projects on her own, too. You can see those here if that age interests you.

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