Toddler Nature Camp

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July 9, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

Daddy took Alex to Toddler Nature Camp! Two mornings of muddy and dirty boy fun!

Mud Puppies Camp Day 1

Alex did excellent with color matching with colored worms found in the mud tub

Worms! Mud! ew!

And, Alex made our local newspaper! So excited! Of course, we bought several copies of the paper and emailed it to everyone we know! Fame!

mud painting!

Alex loved this and told Dad that Mom won’t let him do it. I guess I need to do more messy art!

Digging for bugs

more bug digging

and rocks, too, I guess.

snack time! Oreo dirt cups. Alex loved the gummy worms!

Trail Tails Camp Day 2

detachable lizard tail=tail tag! (kinda like flag football)

making a tail!

Looking through the duck blind at the lake

story time

exploring the “bear cave”

feather color matching in the tall grass

Alex had so much fun and was such a good boy for Daddy! So happy they got some boy time!

Alex can’t wait until the end of July when he goes back to camp for two more mornings!

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Tot School 25 Months

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June 11, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

Playing the iPad with Daddy. They both look like they’re having so much fun! Alex loves the Montessori apps I have and he’s really good at them!

Cleaning up blocks. Alex is such a sweet little helper and always willing to clean up! We made a game of it and I called out colors and shapes and he found those to put in the bag.

Sorting ping pong balls.

We played with these a long time. He asked for more colors to sort them properly.

“Why no pink? I want orange!” ha!

Muffin Tin Meal

We haven’t done this in sooo long. Alex loved it. Look at that cheesy mouthful grin!

On the phone with Grandpa to brag about his haircut.

He has refused to let me cut his hair for several months now. I’ve snipped the ends a few times with scissors, but he’s been looking scruffy because he decided he was terrified of the clippers. All of a sudden, he demanded a proper haircut, all out of the blue! I rushed up to the bathroom and got ‘er done! He was so proud, he needed to call Grandpa and tell him!

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Earth Day Tot School

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April 30, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Ogden Nature Center Earth Day Field Trip

Such a fun festival at Ogden Nature Center!

a llama cart ride!

Constellation ball throw…that kid has a arm!

Learning about mason bees

et tu, Brute?

Making Earth gel clings with colored glue

King of the mountain!

A solar powered fountain

How do you celebrate Earth Day?

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Turning 2 Years Old

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March 28, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

So, Alex turns 2 Sunday. He’s a big boy now!

All of a sudden, he’s not a baby anymore. He’s a little boy. He’s so big and talking and so independent!

After three little girls, this guy sure is a needed change! I’m learning so much from him. He is so different from his sisters. He has no interest in doing the Tot School activities I did with the girls. He likes some of the Montessori works that I have on his shelves. And of course, I never get any pics of him doing those because I’m right there with him. He loves being outdoors. Just when I thought I had homeschooling figured out, he throws me a curve!

Here’s a little bit about our blonde, blue-eyed Bubba.

Alex likes cheese. I mean, really likes cheese.

He was so excited for his Cars birthday celebration.

He blew out two swirly candles on his cupcake.

Then we put lots of frosting on it and he licked it all off. He left the cake.

Alex likes orange, so I made him orange buttercream frosting. (The pink and blue and green frosting were more for his sisters to decorate their cupcakes.)

Alex loves his iPad. He loves his cat, Rubeus. They’re buddies.

Alex loves the kitchen and begs to cook! He knows where everything goes and what everything is used for and we have rather more than enough when it comes to tools and appliances…

He’s my handsome little man who looks just like Daddy, all the way down to that smirk.

He’s my big boy!

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March Tot School

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March 4, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

Alex had a fun week and we did lots of activities together and with his sisters.

He turns 2 next month!

“painting” with shaving cream at co-op

Our March sensory bin with lentils, shamrocks, pom poms, black cauldrons, and a wooden rainbow. Alex loves filling the cauldrons with the lentils.

Moon balancing game

Playing with Geoboards and rubber bands. Alex’s favorite color is orange!

Excited about new light box tools!

Matching colors: plastic stir sticks (from Walmart) to clear bins (from Dollar Tree)

Making his name with plastic stir sticks (I did this). He LOVED this! Alex tried to make his own letters and got the X down!

Making circles (Alex calls them “O’s”) with half circle transparent blocks. And playing Peek a Boo.

It snowed Thursday and Friday, so there was snow play!

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Bubba School 22 Months

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February 26, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

Our Tot School Update at 22 Months

Enjoying playing the iPad with Toca Boca Doctor

This kid likes mushrooms. I have to hide them if I want any!

playing with fraction blocks

Alex still likes pouring and sorting. Just didn’t get any pictures of that!

It amazes me how much this little guy learns just by playing.

He recognizes many letters and points them out to us all the time, everywhere.

His vocabulary is pretty extensive, and he doesn’t turn 2 until April 1!

He’s following directions ever so much better at our homeschool co-op.

I even was able to leave him in his PE class with Tori and Katie last week and he did awesome!

He knows lots of shapes and loves his FISHER-PRICE Games MATCHIN’ MIDDLES. He loves Oreos too. He licks the middles out and hands me the cookies. yuck!

I’m going to try reintroducing some Tot School printables and see if he’s interested. He wasn’t a few weeks ago.

Watching Sesame Street on YouTube. I have no idea why he’s pointing at me.

Playing the iPad with our new apps we reviewed.

cutting paper at co-op! big boy!

getting ready to slide. He paused on purpose for a picture, but he wouldn’t smile. Tough guy.

He’s growing up so fast!

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Tot School still 21 months

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January 29, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

I title this: “No, I will not show you my snowy picture…”

But, I will be a ham while playing with fishy felts.

Tracing lines from mousie to mousie…saying yuuuummmmmm like the mousies are eating cheese.

Where’s the moon?

Where’s the star?

Cutting food

Playing Toca Boca Kitchen (we’re a little obsessed with Toca Boca games)

He’s a busy boy and learning so much!

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Story Art

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January 14, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

I set up a class at our winter homeschool co-op using the story+art ideas from A Mommy’s Adventures.

story+art=StArt

I have a theme each week and check out books from the library and bring art supplies for a craft. There are about a dozen kids signed up, grades K-2, including my Tori and Katie (for whom I planned the class).

Last week, we read some ABC books and did initial collages.

I had all sorts of collage materials, hoping to appeal to all the boys and girls: moss, rocks, sequins, shells, beads, jewels, stickers…

We all got a kick out of this alphabet book: A is for Salad. The pictures illustrate the letter, but the words say something a little different.

Victoria’s and Katherine’s initial collages:

I did one with Alex at home. He was so proud!

I couldn’t get the ‘A’ to print straight. Oh well, he didn’t mind.

This week, we read about dots and did Do-A-Dot pages.

Those were a real hit!

I got the dot printables from Making Learning Fun. We used the theme of Swimming Creatures to go along with our Apologia Science class.

Resources:

Peanut Butter and Jellyfishes: A Very Silly Alphabet Book
A is for Salad
The Dot
Press Here

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Winter Tot School 21 Months

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January 2, 2012 By Jennifer Lambert Leave a Comment

Alex went outside when it was 18 degrees to help his dad and the neighbors fix the fence. Brr!

He LOVES his new BLUE Crayola dry erase board!

Livin’ it up at Christmas dinner (sparkling grape juice)!

Our new cube system with some Montessori trays. Alex’s is on the left. My K girls’ is on the right, but they often share. Alex sure is different from the girls at 21 months! He is so active; he doesn’t want to sit still for long and has no interest in paper activities.

A favorite activity is in the bottom far left cube: pouring black beans into a bowl. He also liked picking up pony beads and “feeding” the duck in the middle bottom cube.

He pretty ignored all his other activities.

Here is Alex using one of the girls’ activities. I didn’t think he would be able to do it, but he sure surprised me! I named all the colors and shapes for him.

He loves the pattern blocks!

So I found our other tangram set for him to play with…

Alex was sure thrilled to pick out all the O’s (circles) from these tangrams. (Why, yes, that is a princess table…)

He asked me for a bowl to sort them into. He found all the baby O’s.

Then he started stacking O’s and squares by color!

He enjoyed stamping with our snowy stamp set.

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Christmas Sensory Bin

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December 12, 2011 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

My husband created a sensory table for us!

I put a Christmas sensory bin in there and Alex LOVES it! (So does Tori!)

I have glittery pom poms, red and white beans, green glass rocks, glitter tree stickers, 12 Days of Christmas and Nativity printables (scaled down and laminated), a tree ice cube tray, two Santa candy holders, jingle bells…

Resources:

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