Knit in my womb: Dinosaur Tot School

I began dinosaur tot school this week with little Tot. He loved it...but he would love any 'school' I did with him :)

This week was a lot of fun. We only did 3 days this week and here's what we did:

Day 1

Here's his setup he wakes up to in the morning. We start the day always by reading one or more of the books.

This little man is CRAZY about letters! He is always spelling his name, my name and daddy's name....he hasn't gotten the brothers' down yet. So I knew he'd love to spell dinosaur!

Here were are making a dinosaur sticker book.

Some practical life skills - mixing pancake batter - he did very good and was well supervised by the brothers!

He always loves these kind of coloring books...

I liked this one ' to his nose, to his tail' :)

And now washing our dinosaurs (the middle tray above)...what started out as some shaving cream and rinse water...

morphed a few times... (mud bath)...

..then ~~making muddier~~ cleaning them with our old toothbrushes..

...and finally a rinse in the mud bucket. They spent so long doing this...such boy fun!

Rex wanted me to play 'hide the dinosaur' (kind of like finding Easter eggs). He and I probably played for 30 minutes, then he and Captain took turns for another 30! Who would've thought it'd be so much fun!

Tot didn't stop washing/mudding/rinsing...

until he remembered his favorite view from the clubhouse!

Oh, and cleaning up the equipment was also very enjoyable!

Day 2

setup

Little man finding all the capital D's...

Shadow matching

Listening to an old school favorite here "Wee sing and learn dinosaurs"

graphing dinosaurs (a favorite with Rex, Tot just dotted the dinosaurs)

Day 3

setup

Ok - the last tray was so much fun! I can't take credit for it. I found it on someone's blog but can't remember, so I can't give her credit :( But....I made dinosaur feet for Tot (and then of course some big boys) and made the towers below. I'd call out a letter and he'd have to go (like a big dinosaur of course) and kick over the correct tower!

For some reason he would sit down everytime I called the letter, then kick! I'm not sure why he thought dinosaurs should be sitting down! Eventually Captain was making the towers and I think Tot was standing and kicking at that point!