Category: Tot School

Tot-School Purple Day

Read:  

Song: 

WE LOVE PURPLE
Tune: “Three Blind Mice”

We love purple, we love purple.
Yes, we do. Yes, we do.
Purple grapes and eggplant,
Purple plums and grape juice,
Just for me, just for you.
–Heather McPhail

Color Recognition:  Show the child 3 cars or toys (be sure one is purple).  Have the child point to the purple car. (we used bows today)

Word Recognition:  Print the Purple paper to use with do-a-dot markers. 

Discuss: 

  • What is something purple? Plum, violets, jam, etc…
  • “I spy something purple…”

Snack:  Blackberry Smoothie, Grape juice, Plums, Grapes, Cabbage, Blackberries, Grape Jelly, Purple Jello

Blackberry Smoothie

Materials: 

  • 1 Cup Blackberries
  • 1 frozen banana
  • 1 Cup almond milk (or coconut milk)

Directions: 

  1. Blend the berries in a blender, scrape the sides.
  2. Add the banana and blend more, scrape the sides.
  3. Add the milk and blend until smooth.

Purple Playdough

Get out any purple play dough and purple play dough toys and tools. Show the child how to use the tools.

Purple Mixed Media Collage

Materials: any drawing materials that you have that are PURPLE (crayons, markers, colored pencil), white and purple paper, scissors, glue

Description: Child used drawing materials on the white paper. Then she will cut small pieces of her paper and glue them all onto the purple paper.

Skills Targeted: teach your tot to follow directions, be creative, and fine motor skills.

Play with Purple Balloon

This girl loves to play with balloons. Today we played with a purple dancing scarf instead of a balloon.

PURPLE word and pictures

I found these Color Headers in the Target back to school clearance a few years ago.  She put the yellow pictures onto the PURPLE word.

Planting Purple Tulips

Materials:

  • Purple Construction Paper
  • Craft Sticks
  • Egg Carton

Directions:

  1. Cut tulip shapes from the paper and glue a craft stick to them.
  2. Turn the egg carton upside down and cut slits in each egg part.
  3. The child can plant the tulips in the different slits.
  4. Count how many tulips he planted.

Skills Targeted: teach your tot color recognition, teach your tot to follow directions

PURPLE Baby Bin

I made a Baby Bin filled with purple toys for my granddaughter to play with too.

Here are the links to posts for the individual colors that we learned:

Tot-School Green Day

Read:  

Song: 

THERE’S A COLOR WE ALL KNOW
Tune: “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”

There’s a color we all know,
G-R-E-E-N.
It’s the color that means “Go!”
G-R-E-E-N.
Oh, grass is green and lettuce is green,
Leaves and spinach and peas are green,
There’s a color we all know,
G-R-E-E-N
–Elizabeth Scofield

Color Recognition:  Show the child 3 cars or toys (be sure one is green).  Have the child point to the green car.

Word Recognition:  Print the green paper to use with do-a-dot markers. 

Discuss: 

  • What is something green? Frog, tree, grapes, etc…
  • “I spy something green…”

Snack:  Green Sugar Cookie, Grapes, Green Beans, Honeydew, Kiwi, Lettuce, Cucumber, Green Apple, Green Koolaid, Pickle

Green Playdough

Get out any green play dough and green play dough toys and tools. Show the child how to use the tools.

Green Mixed Media Collage

Materials: any drawing materials that you have that are GREEN (crayons, markers, colored pencil), white and green paper, scissors, glue

Description: Child used drawing materials on the white paper. Then she will cut small pieces of her paper and glue them all onto the green paper.

Skills Targeted: teach your tot to follow directions, be creative, and fine motor skills.

Play with Green Balloon

This girl loves to play with balloons, so I got out a green one for her to play with today.

GREEN word and pictures

I found these Color Headers in the Target back to school clearance a few years ago.  She put the yellow pictures onto the GREEN word.

Shopping for Green Food

Materials:

Directions:

  1. Put play food in a shopping basket.
  2. Have the child pick out all of the green foods and place them on her plate.

Skills Targeted: teach your tot color recognition, teach your tot to follow directions

GREEN Baby Bin

I made a Baby Bin filled with green toys for my granddaughter to play with too.

Here are the links to posts for the individual colors that we learned:

Tot-School Blue Day

Read:  

Song: 

WE LOVE BLUE
Tune: “Three Blind Mice”

We love blue. We love blue.
Yes, we do. Yes, we do.
We love the ocean and sky so blue.
We love blue ribbons and blue jeans, too.
We love blueberries, so good for you.

We love blue.
–Liz Ryerson

Color Recognition:  Show the child 3 cars or toys (be sure one is blue).  Have the child point to the blue car.

Word Recognition:  Print the Blue paper to use with do-a-dot markers. 

Discuss: 

  • What is something blue? Blueberries, train, jeans, etc…
  • “I spy something blue…”

Snack:  Blueberries, Blue Jello, Blue Popsicle, Blue Gatorade, Blue Chips, Blue Unicorn Pudding

Blue Playdough

Get out any blue play dough and blue play dough toys and tools. Show the child how to use the tools.

Blue Mixed Media Collage

Materials: any drawing materials that you have that are BLUE (crayons, markers, colored pencil), white and blue paper, scissors, glue

Description: Child used drawing materials on the white paper. Then she will cut small pieces of her paper and glue them all onto the blue paper.

Skills Targeted: teach your tot to follow directions, be creative, and fine motor skills.

Play with Blue Balloon

This girl loves to play with balloons, so I got out a blue one for her to play with today.

BLUE word and pictures

I found these Color Headers in the Target back to school clearance a few years ago.  She put the blue pictures onto the BLUE word.

Blue Fish Painting

Materials:

  • White paper
  • Blue paint
  • Paintbrush
  • Masking tape
  • Googly Eye

Directions:

  1. Use the masking tape to make the shape of a fish on the white paper.
  2. Let the child paint the whole paper blue.
  3. After it dries peel off the masking tape.
  4. Add a googly eye.  It looks like you have a blue fish swimming in blue water now.

Skills Targeted: teach your tot color recognition, teach your tot to follow directions

BLUE Baby Bin

I made a Baby Bin filled with blue toys for my granddaughter to play with too.

Here are the links to posts for the individual colors that we learned:

Tot-School Red Day

Read:  

Song: 

I LOVE RED
Tune: “Three Blind Mice”

I love red, I love red.
That’s what I said, that’s what I said.
Firetrucks, wagons and strawberries piled high.
Stop signs, hearts and pizza pies.
Roses, tomatoes and apples, oh my.
I love red.
That’s what I said.
–Jean Warren

Color Recognition:  Show the child 3 cars or toys (be sure one is red).  Have the child point to the red car.

Word Recognition:  Print the Red paper to use with do-a-dot markers. 

Discuss: 

  • What is something red?  Apples, fire trucks, ladybugs, etc…
  • “I spy something red…”

Snack:  Strawberries, Red Apples, Red Juice, Red Jello, Radishes, Watermelon, Licorice, Pepperoni, Tomato

Red Playdough

Get out any red play dough and red play dough toys and tools. Show the child how to use the tools.

Red Mixed Media Collage

Materials: any drawing materials that you have that are RED (crayons, markers, colored pencil), white and red paper, scissors, glue

Description: Child used drawing materials on the white paper. Then she will cut small pieces of her paper and glue them all onto the red paper.

Skills Targeted: teach your tot to follow directions, be creative, and fine motor skills.

Play with Red Balloon

This girl loves to play with balloons, so I got out a red one for her to play with today.

RED word and pictures

I found these Color Headers in the Target back to school clearance a few years ago.  She put the red pictures onto the RED word.

Find the Red Ball

Materials: 3 red solo cups, a small red ball

Description: Place three cups with their opening down on the ground. Show your toddler the red ball and place it under one of the red cups. Move the cups around for a few seconds. Have your child see if they can follow the cup with the red ball and guess what cup it is under. Once you do this several times, allow your toddler to put the ball under the cup and try to trick you!

Skills Targeted: teach your tot color recognition, teach your tot to follow directions, teach your tot to play games, teach your tot to make guesses.

RED Baby Bin

I made a Baby Bin filled with red toys for my granddaughter to play with too.

Here are the links to posts for the individual colors that we learned:

Colors Tot-School

We are learning colors this month. We spent a couple days on each color, basically however long she needed to remember the new color. Storm is 2 years old, but you could use most of these activities for 3 and 4 year old children as well. I also have a few activities for babies; we included my granddaughter in some of the lessons. You can click the links at the bottom of this post to see what we did for each individual color.

Preschool Colors Book List

Tot-School Colors Book List

  • Red by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Yellow  by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Blue by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Green by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Purple  by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Orange by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Black  by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Brown  by Patricia M. Stockland
  • White by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Gray by Patricia M. Stockland
  • Pink by Patricia M. Stockland

Baby Colors Book List

Color Music Songs:

Color Activities:

  • I found these Color Headers in the Target back to school clearance a few years ago.  I punched out the pieces and laid them on the floor for her to match up. 

Color Busy Book:

I made Storm a busy book to match up colors. I printed all of these pages from free resources that I have found. Then I laminated them and 3 hole punched them and placed them in a binder. I cut out the matches and added velcro dots to them so that she could place them in the appropriate spot.

  • Paint Brush Colors

Here are the links to posts for the individual colors that we learned:

“The Wheels on the Bus” Tot School

“The Wheels on the Bus”

Color: Yellow

Shape: Circle

Number: 4

Letter: B

Verse 1: wheels go round

  • Look at the wheels on our van.
  • Show the wheels on the toy bus and push it on the floor to see them go round and round.
  • Roll a ball to go round and round.

Verse 2: people go up and down

  • Jump up and down.
  • Hold a baby doll up then down.

Verse 3: horn goes toot

  • Sit in the van and honk the horn.
  • Show child some other types of horns.

Verse 4: money goes clink

  • Drop coins in a jar or piggy bank to go clink.

Verse 5: wipers go swish

  • Wash the van window.
  • Turn on the window wipers in the van.

Book List:

  • Wheels on the Bus by Sylvie Kantorovitz Wickstrom
  • Wheels on the Bus by Jerry Smath
  • The wheels on the Bus by Dana Regan
  • Big Gus The Double Decker by Ian Pillinger
  • The Bus Driver by Todd H. Doodler
  • Red Truck, Yellow Bus: A Book of Colors by Rookie Toddler
  • I’m Feeling School Bus Yellow by Tina Gallo

Dramatic Play:

  • Play with Sesame Street bus.  “Doors go Open and Shut”
  • Melissa & Doug Transportation

  • Fisher Price Little People School Bus

Music/ Poems:

  • “Wheels on the Bus” youtube    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOiYN7iU-W8&t=572s

Foods:

  • Graham Cracker
  • Cinnamon Toast Crunch
  • Cheese
  • Mini Oreo

Fine Motor:

  • Paint a Shape Bus

Trips:

  • Take a bus ride.

Goodnight Moon Tot School

One of the favorite books for all of my toddlers over the years has been “Goodnight Moon”. The simple rhyming and repetition is calming for my little ones.

Abeka Curriculum

I was able to incorporate several of our Abeka nursery lessons into this unit as well. Following are some of the specific books with links that are used in this Farm Tot School Unit:

Goodnight Moon Sensory Tub

Tot Tub

Color: Red

Shape: Crescent

Number: 2

Letter: M (moon)

Abeka Nursery Curriculum

“In the great green room”

Paint with green paint.

“There was a telephone”

Play with toy phone.
Abeka Nursery Curriculum

“And a red balloon”

Play with a red baloon.

S reviewed his colors by coloring the balloons on page 2 of this download the color that I told him.  Then I cut it out and folded it into a book.

“And a picture of—”

Paint a picture.

“The cow jumping over the moon”

Hey Diddle Diddle

I got this printable from Homeschool Creations.  I added a craft stick to them so I could make the cow jump over the moon.

“And there were three little bears sitting on chairs”

Three Little Bears

I cut out the bears and chairs for S to sort them by size. Then she wanted them to have a “bowl of mush” too.

“And two little kittens”

Color 2 little kittens.

I printed the 2 Little Kittens printable for her to color.

“And a pair of mittens”

Abeka Nursery Curriculum

“And a little toy house”

Play with a toy house.

“And a young mouse”

Abeka Nursery Curriculum

“And a comb and a brush”

Comb doll’s hair.
Brush doll’s hair.

“and a bowl full of mush”

Play dough…
bowl of mush.

“And a quiet old lady who was whispering “hush””

Night night hugs
put baby to bed.

“Goodnight room”

Goodnight Room Coloring Page

I printed the Goodnight Room Coloring Page for S.

“Goodnight moon”

Paint a yellow crescent moon.

“Goodnight cow jumping over the moon”

Abeka Nursery Curriculum

“Goodnight light”

Abeka Nursery Curriculum

“And the red balloon”

Paint a red balloon.
Red pom pom balloons in star ice tray.

“Goodnight bears”

Abeka Nursery Curriculum

“Goodnight chairs”

Sit teddy bear in the chair.

“Goodnight kittens”

Abeka Nursery Curriculum
3 Little Kittens

I found this 3 Little Kittens for her to match mittens with the kittens.

“And goodnight mittens”

Matching Mittens

“Goodnight clocks”

Toy wooden clock.
Hickory, Dickory, Dock

Here is the Hickory, Dickory, Dock coloring page.

“And goodnight socks”

“Goodnight little house”

Abeka Nursery Curriculum

“And goodnight mouse”

Color mouse house.

“Goodnight comb And goodnight brush”

Paint with a comb or brush.

“Goodnight nobody”

Abeka Nursery Curriculum

“Goodnight mush”

Oatmeal for breakfast.

“And goodnight to the old lady whispering “hush””

Abeka Nursery Curriculum

“Goodnight stars”

Star stickers on black paper.

“Goodnight air”

Draw moon and stars with a white crayon and paint water colors over it.

“Goodnight noises everywhere.”

Abeka Nursery Curriculum

Chewy Sugar Cookies

Cookie Ingredients:

  • 1 Cup Butter
  • 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 1/4 cup flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1//2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

Cookie Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Spray cookie sheet with nonstick spray
  3. Cream together the butter and sugar.
  4. Add the egg and mix well.
  5. Stir in the flour, baking powder, salt and vanilla.
  6. Form dough into a large ball and place in a bowl to refrigerate for a hour.
  7. Roll the cookie dough onto a floured surface about 1/4 inch thick.
  8. Cut out the dough with cookie cutters and place them on the pan.
  9. Bake for 8-10 minutes.
  10. Cool and add the buttercream.

Buttercream Ingredients:

  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup Crisco
  • 4 cups powdered sugar (2 lbs)
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon milk (if thick)

Buttercream Directions:

  1. Cream together the butter and Crisco with a mixer.
  2. Slowly add in 1 cup of powdered sugar at a time.
  3. Add the vanilla, if it seems too thick you can add a bit of milk.
  4. Color with yellow food coloring.

Farm Tot School

Color: Red

Shape: Square

Number: 10

Letter: F

Day 1:  Farm

Read:  

Abeka Preschool Curriculum

Songs: 

Snacks:

  • Haystacks  (10 oz.Chow Mein noodles mixed with melted 1 cup chocolate and 1 cups butterscotch chips)

Activities:

  • Wooden Farm
  • Farm Puzzles
  • Stickers
  • Beanie Baby Farm Animals
  • Farm Sensory Tub
  • Farm Animal Movement Cards
  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm
  • Barn Number Match
  • Paper Plate Tractor
  • Sorting Farm Foods
Farm Sensory Tub
Farm Sensory Tub
Farm Puzzle
Farm Puzzles
Farm Animal Movement Cards
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Farm Animal Movement Cards
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Wooden Farm
Farm Animal Beanie Babies
Paper Plate Tractor
Paper Plate Tractor
Barn Number Match
Barn Number Match
Sorting Farm Foods

Day 2: Sheep

Read:  

Abeka Preschool Curriculum

Songs:  

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Sheep
  • Do-A-Dot Sheep
  • Heard the Sheep
Paper Plate Sheep
Do-A-Dot Sheep
Heard the Sheep

Day 3:  Cow

Read:  

Abeka Preschool Curriculum

Songs: 

Animal Alphabet Friends

Snacks:

  • Chocolate Milk

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Cow
  • Do-A-Dot Cow
  • Milk the Cow
Paper Plate Cow
Do-A-Dot Cow
Milking a Cow

Day 4: Horse

Read:  

Abeka Preschool Curriculum

Songs: 

Animal Alphabet Friends

Snacks:

  • Apples and carrots
Sharing the snack with the horse!

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Horse
  • Do-A-Dot Horse
  • Rocking Horse (Stick Horse)
Paper Plate Horse
Do-A-Dot Horse
Rocking Horse

Day 5:  Pig

Read:  

Abeka Preschool Curriculum

Songs: 

  • This Little Piggy

Snacks:

  • Pigs in a Blanket (Wrap hot dots in crescent rolls  375 degrees for 10 min)

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Pig
  • Catch the Piggies
  • Numbers & Colors Pig E Bank
Catch the Piggies
Paper Plate Pig

Day 6:  Donkey

Read:  

Abeka Preschool Curriculum

Songs:  

Animal Alphabet Friends

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Donkey
  • Pin the Tail on the Donkey
Paper Plate Donkey

Day 7: Goat

Read:  

Abeka Preschool Curriculum

Songs:  

  • Gomer Goat YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cItWWyC9dc&list=PLtcVDUfj-tZytwkA64XHNSi0PwA0TMrJM&index=7
Animal Alphabet Friends

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Goat.
  • Do-a-Dot Goat
  • Goat Colors and Shapes
Do-A-Dot Goat
Goat Shapes
Goat Colors
Paper Plate Goat

Day 8:  Rooster

Read:  

Abeka Preschool Curriculum

Songs:  

Animal Alphabet Friends

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Rooster
  • Feather Rooster
Paper Plate Rooster
Feather Rooster

Day 9: Chicken

Read:  

Abeka Preschool Curriculum

Songs:

  • Five Little Chickens

Snacks:

  • Hard Boiled Eggs

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Chick
  • Do-A-Dot Chicken
  • Feed the Chickens
  • Counting Chicks
  • Catch the Fox
Paper Plate Chick
Counting Chicks
Do-A-Dot Chicken
Feed the Chickens
Catch the Fox

Day 10: Mouse

Read:  

Abeka Preschool Curriculum

Songs: 

Snacks:

  • Cheese

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Mouse
  • Mouse in the Color House
  • Mouse Colors and Shapes
Paper Plate Mouse
Mouse Colors
Mouse Shapes
Mouse in the Color House

Day 11: Cat

Read:  

Abeka Preschool Curriculum

Songs: 

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Cat
  • Do-A-Dot Cat
  • Cat Colors and Shapes
Cat Shapes
Cat Colors
Do-A-Dot Cat
Paper Plate Cat

Day 12:  Dog

Read:  

Abeka Preschool Curriculum

Songs: 

Snacks:

  • Puppy Chow

Activities:

  • Paper Plate Dog
  • Do-A-Dot Dog
  • Doggy Doggy Where’s My Bone?
Paper Plate Dog

I ordered a couple toddler age books from Abeka.com. Following are some of the specific books with links that are used in this Farm Tot School Unit:

Grant’s Farm

Home of the Budweiser Clydesdales
Baby Goats
Chickens
Milk a Cow

Baby (High Contrast) Farm Book List:

  • Farm by James Brown
  • Black & White Farm by Charles Reasoner
  • Hello, Farm by Cani Chen

Toddler (Live Animal) Farm Board Book List:

  • Busy Doggies by John Schindel & Beverly Sparks
  • Busy Barnyard by John Schindel & Steven Holt
  • Busy Horsies by John Schindel & Casi Lark
  • Pocket Piggies Opposites! By Richard Austin
  • Farm Animals by National Geographic
  • Sleepy Cat by David P. Hall

Toddler (Sing Song) Farm Board Book List:

  • Five Little Ducks by Little Scholastic
  • The Chicks in the Barn by Aly Fronis
  • Old Macdonald had a Farm by Pam Adams
  • Moo, Baa, La La La! By Sandra Boynton
  • Skip to My Lou by Nadine Bernard Westcott
  • Farmyard Rhymes by Clare Beaton
  • Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton

Toddler (Lift-a-Flap) Farm Board Book List:

  • Noisy Farm by Covent Garden Books
  • Moo by Matthew Van Fleet
  • Pop-Up Peekaboo! Farm by Dawn Sirett & Sarah Davis
  • Farm! By Lori Froeb

Toddler (Touch-and-Feel) Farm Board Book List:

  • Baby Touch and Feel Farm Animals by Dawn Sirett
  • Touch and Feel Farm by Scholastic
  • Baby Touch and Feel Tractor by Dawn Sirett & Charlie Gardner
  • Farm by Phillips
  • Baby Einstein Touch and Feel Farm Animals by Julie Aigner-Clark
  • Touch and Feel Farm by DK Publishing
  • Touch and Feel Tractor by John Deere
  • Touch & Feel Farm by Dwell Studio
  • Fuzzy Farm by Little People
  • Night Night Farm by Amy Parker
  • F is for Farm by Aimee Chapman
  • Good Night Farm by Patricia Hegarty
  • On the Farm by Little Bee Books

Toddler (Animal Sounds) Farm Board Book List:

  • Clifford’s Animal Sounds by Normal Bridwell
  • My Farm Friends by Wendell Minor
  • Farm Friends 101 Dalmatians by Disney
  • Find the Piglet by Stephen Cartwright
  • Funny Farm by Grosset & Dunlap
  • Baby Animal Farn by Karen Blair
  • On the Farm by Kate Riggs
  • Moo, Moo, Peekaboo! By Jane Dyer
  • Farm Babies by Emily Bolam
  • Farm Friends Little People by Fisher-Price
  • Farm Animals by Charles Reasoner

Preschool (Favorites) Farm Book List:

  • The Donkey’s Christmas Song by Nancy Tafuri
  • Going to Sleep on the Farm by Wendy Cheyette Lewison
  • Little Red Hen by Beverly Capps Burgess
  • Farm Lullaby by Karen Jameson

Preschool (Lift-a-Flap) Farm Book List:

  • The Berenstain Bears Visit the Farm by Mike Berenstain
  • Peek-a-Moo! By Marie Torres Cimarustk
  • PeekABoo Farm by Jane Dyer

Preschool (Colors) Farm Book List:

  • One Sheep, Blue Sheep by Thom Wiley
  • Moo Moo, Brown Cow by Jakki Wood
  • Moo, Moo. Brown Cow Have You Any Milk? By Phillis Gershator

Preschool (Numbers) Farm Book List:

  • Tiny Puppies by V.C. Graham
  • My First Counting Book by Lilian Moore
  • Ten Sleepy Sheep by Phyllis Root
  • Barn Cat by Carol P. Saul
  • Pocket Piggies Numbers! By Richard Austin
  • Big Fat Hen by Keith Baker

Preschool (Alphabet) Farm Book List:

  • Usborne Farmyard Tales Alphabet Book by Heather Amery & Stephen Cartwright
  • John Deere Farm ABC by John Deere
  • Click, Clack, Quackity-Quack by Doreen Cornin & Betsy Lewin
  • G is for Goat by Patricia Polacco

Preschool (Sing Song) Farm Book List:

  • Barnyard Boogie by Jim and Janet Post
  • Mickey and Friends Old MacDonald Has a Farm by Margaret Snyder
  • Pete the Cat Old MacDonald Had a Farm by James Dean
  • Old MacDonald Drives a Tractor by Don Carter
  • When Cows Come Home by David L. Harrison

Preschool (Story) Farm Book List:

  • The Farm Book by Jan Pfloog
  • Big Red Barn by Margret Wise Brown
  • Tractor Power! By Catherine Nichols
  • Duck on a Bike by David Shannon
  • The Puppy Book by Jan Pfloog
  • Baby Farm Animals by Garth Williams
  • Where Do You Sleep Little One? By Patricia Hopper
  • Good Morning, Farm by Lori Reiser
  • Let’s go to the Farm! By Carly Hart & Lauren Tobia
  • Piglet and Granny by Margaret Wild

Insect Tot School

Color: Black

Shape: Oval

Number: 6

Letter: I for Insect

Day 1:  Insects                         

Read:  

Music: Bug Instruments

Experiment: Bug Hunt

Play:  Bug Sensory Tub

Day 2:  Ants                            

Read:  

Music: sing the ants go marching

Experiment: Ant Farm

Play:  Counting Ants

Day 3:  Ladybugs                         

Read:  

Music: sing Ladybug Ladybug fly away home

Experiment: Ladybug Habitat

Day 4:  Bees                      

Read:  

Music:

Day 5:  Inchworms                       

Read:  

Play:  Make Playdough Inchworms

Music: Itchy Inchworm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coW1OJnbut8&list=PLtcVDUfj-tZytwkA64XHNSi0PwA0TMrJM&index=9

Day 6:  Butterflies                        

Read:  

Music: sing bullfrogs and butterflies

Experiment: Raise Butterflies

Play: Butterfly Life Cycle Toys

Butterfly Sticker

I ordered a couple toddler age books from Abeka.com. Following are some of the specific books with links that are used in this Insect Tot School Unit:

Movie List:

Book List:

Music/ Poems:

Gross Motor: 

  • Move like an insect cards

Fine Motor:

Trips:

  • Butterfly House
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