Tot School: 13 months 3 weeks

Bean is currently 13 months 3 weeks old



 

Bean's first tray was three books-

         

 

Tray two was a puzzle. She tried to get the pieces in a couple of times but ended up getting pretty frustrated with it. She only pulled this tray out one time this week.

Tray three was jumbo buttons and a shoe box with a hole in the lid. I originally started with just a slit cut in the lid but she wasn't able to get the buttons in by herself that way so I ended up making a bigger hole.

She seemed to like dumping all of the buttons back out more than putting them in.

Of course wearing it as a hat is the most fun of all!

Tot School: 13.5 months

Bean is currently 13.5 months

Bean had 3 tot trays this week

Tray one held 3 books-

         

Oooh Oooh Moo was Bean's favorite this week. It is a sweet, simple book that features pictures of animals and the sounds they make. She attempted to say "moooo" every time we got to the cow page. She also really enjoyed the sensory aspect of the touch and feel book.

Tray two was a small box that held toy bugs along with a little net, all of which came from our bug sensory.

Bean liked opening and closing the box and taking the bugs in and out. I also held the net for her so that she could put the bugs into it and then dump them all back out again.

  

Tray three was six clothespins clipped to a ramekin. Well, we started with six but she broke a few so by the end of the week it was three clothespins clipped to a ramekin. The point of this activity was for her to pull each of the clothespins off. She isn't anywhere near ready to clip them on by herself yet so I helped with that part. This was her favorite tray this week.

Two things that Bean has enjoyed doing a lot of this week are dancing...

and coloring!

Tot School: First Week!

Bean is 13.5 months old

Buzz and Boo had their first week of the new school year this week so I decided to start Tot School with Bean as well. It's really no different than what we've been doing all along anyway, but writing it in my planner and scheduling it in my day allows me to make sure that Bean and I get focused time together just the two of us every day.

This week I put together three trays for Bean. The first held three books:

      

Bean won't normally sit still while I read her a story straight through (though she did surprise me and sit through Pajama Time a few times this week). Her favorite thing to do with books is to point to different things on each page and have me name whatever she's pointing at.

The second tray had five wooden blocks. Bean hasn't shown much interest in blocks and isn't quite able to stack them yet but I figured I'd set them out and see what she did. She took out the tray each day and gave stacking an effort for a minute or two then moved on.

Tray three was her favorite! An ice cube tray and counting links. The first day that she tried this she mostly
just wanted to take the links out and asked Boo and I to put them back in for her.

This is the face that she makes every time she sees me holding the camera, silly girl!

She did eventually decide that dropping them in was fun though!

The next day when she tried this tray she was much more focused on putting the links in by herself

She also used the ice cube tray to knock the blocks down :)

Check out what other little ones did for tot school this week: