Last week we started our Forest theme, which I have broken up into a few different sub-themes. Last week we learned about trees!
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Here is our book list. There are many, many books about trees – I tried to stick to ones about temperate forests.
You will notice the Lorax by Dr. Seuss is on the list – we also watched the video (the original cartoon, not the new animated one), which has turned into a favorite here.
I found a printable from www.kidsunder7.com for Curly to practice tracing the letter T. She only made it for a couple letters before tiring of it, but I didn’t push it. She has plenty of time to learn to write the letter T! Here is the worksheet.
I appreciated the fact that this printable had a spot for both uppercase and lowercase, even though Curly didn’t use them. I will remember them for future use!
Lately we’ve been focusing on the spelling of Curly’s name. I write her name for her on her projects and always have her spell it as I’m writing it. She gets confused by the end (her name is 6 letters long) but she’s getting better. She never let’s me forget that her name goes at the top of her workbook sheets, so we are getting lots of practice.
For science we headed into our back yard to do some bark rubbings. We have mostly the same species of tree in our yard, the box elder, but we have many trees at different ages, so we were able to get a few different rubbings.
For math, I found a printable from www.lifewithtoddlers.com for Curly to practice tracing/writing the number 1. She enjoyed this one.
We did a couple of different projects for art. Since The Lorax was a such a favorite, we did a truffula tree craft with popsicle sticks, cotton balls, and paint.
The brown figures on the bottom are barbaloots. We used black marker on the popsicle sticks to make them look like they do in the movie.
We also did a forest project. I traced Curly’s forearm and hand several times on a large piece of paper, then she painted them. Once they were dry, she used a round foam brush to stamp on some leaves.
We hope you had a great week!
is an old favorite of ours, so it was a perfect candidate for us to center activities around. First, we made binoculars to take along on our bear hunt. I used two used toilet paper rolls and had Curly decorate them.
. We soaked pennies in different liquids to see which liquid would clean pennies better. Lemon juice won out. We talked about how lemon juice has acid in it, and how acids will eat away at things, like grime on pennies.
that she pulled out. Smartgames produces toys and games for toddlers/preschoolers that are supposed to promote problem solving and logical thinking. I really like how they use wood and not plastic in their toys. I’m not sure what the actual difference it makes, but it’s just nicer for whatever reason.
. This week I also picked up a few Kumon workbooks for the pre-writing activities in them. I can’t believe how well they went over – I actually have to put them up where she can’t reach them or she would do the whole book in one sitting! Her favorites are 
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