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Tot school – Christmas time!

/ Erin / 5 comments
Baloo – 40.5 months
We’ve been busy getting ready for Christmas and daddy’s homecoming!!  Our poor tree is so bare that we’ve been trying to make some ornaments, and since we never settled in from our move last June, we’re making sure all the boxes are really unpacked!  Baloo has actually been really helpful.  He likes to sweep and mop with me and he’s getting really good at picking up his toys!!

Here’s what we did for tot school this week:
We celebrated St. Nicks day last Sunday.  Baloo and Royal both opened some presents.  Well, Baloo did most of the opening!!
He got this peg board set and we absolutely love it!!  It’s been played with constantly over the past week!  I even enjoyed playing with it!

And Royal got these soft ABC blocks.  They’re been a lot of fun too!


We made little bell bracelets with bells and chenille stems.  Then ended up turning into ornaments for the tree!



I wanted to make a gum drop Christmas tree but I hate gum drops!!  So instead we made a gummy bear Christmas tree.  I think we accomplished the same in the end!!
It turned out really cute, but we ate all the gummy bears off of it within 2 days!
 

And we made smores!!!  After I realized that I had to do most of the work, but they were so good and totally worth it.



YUM!!!
And our last activity this week was making some Christmas tree cards.  We did the Christmas tree shape activity with 3 triangles to make the tree.  Then I hole punched a bunch of red, orange, and yellow paper to glue on as ornaments.  On the inside of the cards I had Baloo trace “Merry Christmas.  Love, Baloo”.



That was our week!! Check out what everyone else did for tot school at 1+1+1=1http://1plus1plus1equals1.blogspot.com/2009/12/tot-school-christmas-break-style.html!








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Tot school – Getting back into the swing of things

/ Erin / 2 comments
Baloo – 40 months

So we skipped posting last week.  I honestly had no clue that it would take so long for us to recover from croup!  Baloo took a full week to stop coughing and still isn’t really back to himself.  I just decided to roll with what he wanted to do and mostly let him lay around.  He didn’t seem interested in doing much.  He’s all better now, and so is Royal!  So we’re starting to get back into “school”.  However, I’ve taken a bit of a photography break so I don’t have pictures of much.
We’re doing an advent calendar with activities everyday.  So far we have made a paper ring chain, an advent wreath (link here), and gingerbread cookies. 
We have some wreath pictures!
 
He is really excited to put on the 2nd flame tomorrow!!
We played the Hot and Cold game.  I would hide something and Baloo would try to find it.  I’d say hotter or colder as he got closer or further away from the hidden object.  He thought this was hilarious, especially when he got really close or really far from the object and I would say he was burning up or frozen.  It took awhile for him to understand the concept, but he started getting pretty good at it!!  Now he asks to play all the time!!
Aside from our calendar time and fun songs, we’ve really been taking it easy.  We’re doing one more week of school until we’re taking a break because Daddy is coming home for R&R!!!!  Yes, my husband is in the army and deployed, but we get him home for Christmas.  I highly doubt we would have time for school then so we’re taking the 2 weeks off of school!
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