Baloo – 39 months

This is getting embarrassing!  We’re started new sports programs since t-ball and soccer are over.  Basketball is Baloo’s new team sport, but now he’s also in a fun sports variety program Tuesday and Thursday mornings.  Our tot time is in the morning, so that has just cut our time down drastically.  Add to that, the weather here in Tampa is finally cooling off!!!  We have spent time just about every day at the playground.  It’s so wonderful being able to go outside without immediately sweating.  Okay enough excuses!  Here is what we did manage to do!

Our letter of the week was J and we decided on Jewelry for our theme.  We didn’t really do this all week, just one day.  Baloo and I both wore necklaces (aka Mardi Gras beads) and we proudly showed off our jewelry everywhere we went.  He actually really enjoyed that part.  Then we made a jewelry J.  We glued on the Mardi Gras beads for a necklace and used glitter for the earrings.  I intended on the ears to be on the top of the J, but Baloo obviously had a different opinion on where they should be located.

 

 

We actually played with a lot of toys this week, but only got one picture of this one activity.  I got these finger puppets at Ikea.  There are 2 sets and these finger puppets are so cute.  Baloo and I will hold full conversations with the puppets.  I really think it’s helping his communication skills.  He actually asks me questions randomly, and when I answer he asks me another question that is related.  He has names for all the puppets, although most of them are like Shark and Lady. 

 

Baloo – 39 months

I’m going to be completely honest in that I totally dropped the tot school ball this week, and it shows.  No one was sick, but we did spend a lot of time preparing for Halloween.  We went to the zoo and the pumpkin patch.  The week just flew by and we didn’t get a whole lot of school in at all!!  I actually made an entire insect tot-lapbook and he played with it once!  I didn’t even get pictures of it!!

I will be getting that into pdf file and posting it here sometime this week though.

So, without further adieu, here is what we did manage to do!

Theme – Insects!

We tried to do a lot of bug related activities this week (although we referred to them as insects).  We went on a nature walk and looked for the bugs.  We read a lot of our bug books (The Grouchy Ladybug, The Lonely Firefly, The Very Hungry Catapilar, and The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle, and Beetle Bop)

We made egg carton ants.  These turned out to be a lot of fun, and Baloo actually played with them for quite awhile!

 

Finish product:

And yum!

Our other activities:

Pumpkin painting!!!  I let Baloo pick out his own pumpkin, even though it was lopsided and scratched.

On our zoo trip.  Baloo was very brave!  He fed the goats, and the lorikeets!

He even let the lorikeets land on his hand!!

I finally made him a sensory tub!  I gave him cups and bulldozers for playing, but he spent a lot of time doing this…

We mad a game book this week.  I put in some mazes and letter/number pages.  I think he really just enjoyed just using the marker and erasing with it
This was inspired by Tired, Need Sleep here

This is a game we played at the park.  Baloo would tell us when we could walk, and when we had to stop, and we all had to balance by putting our arms out to the side.

And that’s that!!  This week we’re starting a Thankful theme that will continue until Thanksgiving.  We’re going to be doing a gratitude challenge, which I will be posting more about later this evening hopefully!