Tot School Week 2: Bear, 2, Green

Monkey is 2 +5 months

Monday and Tuesday were crazy days for us last week.  Monday being Labor Day (holiday so Daddy was home) and Tuesday I had a midwife appointment and so we didn't have time to do Tot School so we started on Wednesday and ended today and did 3 days of Tot School (Wednesday then Monday and Tuesday of this week).  We did our Learning Poster on Wednesday but didn't get to our letter box until today.

Wednesday

We started out by introducing our Learning Poster for the week-Letter B, Bear, number 2, green, and square again

We got our poems from the same sources as last week.

We then read:
Alpha Tales (Letter B: Bubble Bear) (Grades PreK-1)
Bernard, Me, and the Letter B (Alphabet Friends)
My "B" Sound Box (Sound Box Books)





This was one of Monkey's favorites and is certainly getting added to his wish list!
















We really enjoyed this book too and I think it's a great book to read to kiddos to prepare for a new sibling on the way












This is a great book-especially if you tend to go towards Attachment Parenting (don't let the cover fool you).  It has pictures of the baby nursing and being close to mom and dad.  We really enjoyed it





The Baby Beebee Bird  This one had to be another one of our favorites because of the sounds in the book.  Monkey really enjoyed helping me make the sounds!
Blueberries for Sal Cute book about a mom and little girl (Sal) and a bear and her baby bear
The Big Balloon Race (I Can Read Book 3)
Little Polar Bear Finds a Friend
It's Not Easy Being a Bunny (Beginner Books(R))
The Lamb And The Butterfly
A Was Once an Apple Pie
Orange Pear Apple Bear


Monday

We really enjoyed all of our books that we read while we waited for a visit from Grandma!  I included the picture links of each of our books today.







Great counting book-simple pictures made this really fun and Monkey liked to count along.














Monkey enjoyed the rhyming in this book-I highly recommend it!














I LOVED this version of "We're Going on a Bear Hunt!"  Monkey enjoyed it a lot too-I think this was his favorite of the day












I like the simple pictures in this book.  It makes the classic story very fun even for a baby or young toddler though Monkey really enjoyed it!







Tuesday
To finish up we did our learning box and read A LOT

Do Your ABC's, Little Brown Bear (Picture Puffin Books)


We obviously had to read Brown Bear and some of Brown Bear's friends
Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? Board Book (World of Eric Carle)
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? Board Book


 We then broke out our Brown Bear lapbook we made last year (sorry no pictures-I didn't realize I didn't take any last year!)





 We also read:
Teddy Bear For Sale (level 1) (Hello Reader)
The Berenstain Bears' New Baby
The Berenstain Bears and the Baby Chipmunk (I Can Read Book 1)
A Kiss for Little Bear (An I Can Read Book)
Moonbear's Shadow
Baby Bird's First Nest
Good Night, Baby Bear
Just Like Daddy
Moonbear's Skyfire (Moonbear Books)
Mooncake
Moongame
(We LOVE Moonbear if you couldn't tell!)

Some other book ideas that we didn't get to:
Happy Birthday, Moon (Moonbear)
Moondance
Other Berenstain Bears books
Honey Bunny Funnybunny (Beginner Books(R))
Bunny Bunny By Kirsten Hall
Benny's Big Bubble (All Aboard Reading)Biscuit and the Baby (My First I Can Read)
Amelia Bedelia and the Baby (I Can Read Book 2)
Corduroy (40th Anniversary Edition)
Other Little Bear Books
Books about Big Bird

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Doggies! Wednesday Tot School week 2

Monkey got to spend some time with his grandparents today!  He had a blast!  Grandma brought some fun books for him to read which we plan to talk about soon here :).  After they left we enjoyed some Butternut Squash soup I made (I found some Butternut squash at the grocery store Monday and got really excited).  While it was boiling the squash in spices and water we watched Signing Time volume 1 (First Signs).  After dinner we read a bunch and looked at our Brown Bear tot book (I'll talk about it in a bit as well as where to get the stuff!).

Books we read:
Alphatales D: Detective Dog and the Disappearing Doughnuts (see my materials we use for more info about Alphatales-you can also check out all the threads with the Alphatales tags.
Puppy Love-This was my first book that I "read" as a child (I memorized it and told the whole story almost word for word).  It's a fun story about taking care of a puppy (puppy-sitting).
101 Dalmatians-based on the Disney movie.  Fun to read the story!
Clifford Barks!  We liked this one.  Monkey had to keep yelling out "doggie" throughout the whole story
Clifford's Peekaboo-Monkey's favorite Clifford book so far (but we borrowed it from the library).  He loves to cover his eyes with his hands or a playsilk or whatever and say "Baby?" or "Buddy?" and then uncover and yell out "BOO!"  He thought it was funny that Clifford puppy played peek-a-boo.
Tails Are Not for Pulling-great book for toddlers to teach them to be gentle with animals.  I'm considering purchasing it since Monkey is at the stage that he likes to stomp on tails and poke in eyes.  He thought all the different pets were fun.  The book includes tips for parents to teach their toddlers how to be gentle with pets.
Before bed we read Adventures of Biscuit which is a bargain book from Barnes and Noble (we just barely bought it last week).  It includes 5 stories: Biscuit, Biscuit Finds A Friend, Bathtime for Biscuit, Biscuit's New Trck, and Biscuit Wants to Play.  Monkey got a TOTAL kick out of these.  He loves how Biscuit says "woof woof!" over and over.  He had to start saying woof in anticipation of me reading woof!  Biscuit is an I Can Read! My First reading level. 
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

I finished the Brown Bear tot book today!  I found that rubber cement + packing tape hold things that are laminated together.  Here's where we got the materials.  We printed the color book (I colored it and we laminated it so Monkey can learn colors-it's attached with sticky back velcro in case we want to put in one for him to color.  We also put in the heads and tails matching, the ABCs (we put ours in on two seperate things rather than front to back-I will post pictures when I can).  We also included the counting one.  We didn't include the shape one because we're putting it in our shapes and colors book I'm working on.  We're making the heads and tails for the felt board also.  I also am doing the sized bears for the felt board.  Monkey thought the lapbook was fun!

For anyone interested on what's going on with ME...I got the coolest paper in the mail today (FINALLY!).  Drum roll please....my Bachelor's Degree!  When I was pregnant with Monkey I found out that if I took 21 credits my last semester and 18 the one before I could graduate and walk 2 weeks after he was born.  I ended up on bed rest a couple weeks before Spring break (maybe only a week) on (32 weeks-37 weeks) because of preterm labor.  I had two incompletes to finish after walking.  My professor for the one was great and let me finish my paper and turn it in.  My other one agreed to let me come to a summer class but wouldn't allow me to nurse my baby or have breaks to pump so I asked what we should do.  She agree to let me do a homestudy course and two weeks later came back and said never mind.  I ended up taking a class from another University that is seen as an equivalent.  After finishing that (online) I STILL had to jump through hoops but the good news is that the paper is here and it's getting framed tonight.

Oh and I started a book I want to read besides the one I'm reading to help my hubby (which by the way I really don't enjoy that book!).  Here's a link to the book: Playful Learning.  If you have a local La Leche League go buy it from your group!  Procedes go to help the group (all the mamas are volunteers-the money goes straight to the library and any rental charges or other costs the group acrues).  I got it in a swap otherwise I would have bought it from my group.  I'm starting chapter 1.  Although we've made the decision to homeschool I think it would be of benefit to read it cover to cover still.