Tot School: Letter T

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Letter T is filled with way too many fun things!  It’s hard to choose what to do!  We enjoyed playing with trucks and tractors and trains and learning about turtles and tigers and Tigger.

 Bible verse of the week:

Always give thanks to God for everything. Ephesians 5:20 

We use the ABC bible verse songs from Songs for Saplings.  These songs are so catchy, beautiful, not “children’s music annoying,” and I find myself singing and learning and memorizing the bible verses along with John.  Carisa at 1plus1plus1equals1 has made coordinating ABC Bible Verses posters which have really helped with his memorization as well.

Letter of the week: Tt

Our curriculum consists of 1plus1plus1equals1‘s Tot School ABC’s.  

We put up our bible verse, a Tt small poster from Tot School, a Tt sign from my Kindergarten teaching days, and these wonderful Montessori sandpaper letters above John’s table.  We put these up on the wall so he could feel the letter every morning and trace his fingers on the letter.  Our bin has his printables in an envelope, all ready, along with his poetry books and bibles.

To the right is our poem (From a Railway Carriage was the perfect poem this week!) for the week from my Robert Louis Stevenson Free Printables, Letter T is for Transporation vocabulary, and his alphabet from the Busy Hands post at 1+1+1=1.  I set out a lacing turtle and a letter puzzle for him too.

Check out his T!  John has been very excited to make his R, S, T these last few weeks.  I am so proud of him — I am not pushing handwriting at all — and when I do it will be easier to harder letters — right now we are just exploring.  You can check out my post on pre-writing and uppercase letter writing here: {Early Literacy Stage 3!}  This wonderful handwriting sheet is free from The Measured Mom.

Stamping Ts (and cows!) on the T is for train :)

Reviewing the transportation vocabulary.  He knew every single one!

Placing the trains and their shadows together.

Loved the Do-A-Dot markers — the color green today :)

We played with Foam Dough as part of our T Sensory work.

I also made a Turtle Pond Sensory Bin and John was beyond thrilled.  I got some sweet turtles from the dollar store, had rocks as the base, and added some fake plants that I got on sale. I gave him the usual stainless cups and spoons to play. I had intended to put water in this, but he loved the rocks so much I thought, why bother with more mess.  We added water the next time I got it out ; )

Working with Learn N Links and a sweet lacing turtle from Confessions of a Homeschooler. {His shirts get very dirty by the end of the day lol.}

We also worked on this Melissa & Doug train alphabet puzzle, a gift for Christmas!

We also worked on many important skills in the kitchen.  See our post on Slicing Strawberries:

 

We made a T is for Turtle Felt Craft!

 

We are making an alphabet book with uppercase letters.  We are starting it now, but we’ll start the alphabet again after our Tot School ends with Z.  I will save these and put them in a “book” — probably just with three pieces of yarn — for him to remember each letter!  We are using printables from The Unlikely Homeschool.
It is simple — just decorate your letter with something related to that letter.  This week it is T for Tea!  He loved this activity!

May loved playing with this Baby Einstein Musical Turtle — a gift from Christmas.  I will have a fun Baby Play Ideas post coming up soon — May is often involved with many of our Tot School Adventures :)

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