Tot school themes for the year 16 m-2yr

I decided I should post my themes in case anyone else wants to do Tot School with us. As I have more time I'll update this thread to link to the lap books and folder games that we will do. I'll also post links to the threads for those weeks so you can see the activities we did. I'll include the link of where I got the idea for the theme. This might give you some good ideas of things your child/ren might like.

Week 1 Colors. Letters A and B. Making own lapbook with shapes in 11 colors (ten colors, one white) with pockets to sort the colors and pockets to sort the shapes. I'll make the pockets removable so we can start with sorting 2 colors or shapes at first. I'm also including the color book from here. I'll post pictures when everything is laminated. Intro, M, Tu, W, Th, F.

Week 2 Animals. Letters C and D. Making a lap book out of these books. Week 2 (find each individual day in that post).

Week 3 Ocean. Letters E and F. Lap book made from these two books: 1 and 2 hopefully ending the week with a trip to the aquarium. Week 3

Week 4 Feelings. Letters G and H. Lap book (this one is awesome!)

Week 5 Senses. Letters I and J.

Week 6 Water. Letters K and L.

Week 7 Farm. Letters M and N

Week 8 Shapes. Letters O and P. Lapbook with colors.

Week 9 Fall. Letters Q and R.

Week 10 Halloween. Letters S and T. Halloween on Saturday

Week 11 Animals (zoo animals). Letters U and V.

Week 12 Weather. Letters W and X.

Week 13 Winter. Letters Y and Z.

Week 14 Thanksgiving. Alphabet (week of Thanksgiving so we'll only work M-W)

Week 15 Christmas and Gingerbread Men. This is the end of November-beginning of December. We'll extend our activities for Christmas through the Christmas break.

Week 16 January.

Week 17 Snow

Week 18 We are all the same inside and Pirates (Martin Luther King Day + day after we'll do the first)

Week 19 Noah's Ark (as an alternate you can look at animals or something else-Monkey loves animals that's why we're doing so many animal themes)

Week 20 February

Week 21 Big Machines

Week 22 America (President's Day this week)

Week 23 Butterflies and caterpillars

Week 24 March

Week 25 St. Patrick's (the 17th is during Spring Break)

Week 26 Trains, Planes, Cars (after Spring Break)

Week 27 April and flowers and plants

Week 28 Easter

Week 29 Counting

Starting Curious George-links to previous posts about George

So we already started reading our new theme. I swear Monkey KNOWS where the Curious George section is in every book store-he always finds it. We had to pick up a couple George books yesterday. What better place to start than the original George book?

Cecily G. and the 9 Monkeys by H.A. Rey
We bought this version from Barnes and Noble. It has a really cool afterward to teach you all about how George started! How would Curious Fifi sound? The afterward is written by the same person that wrote a book about the history of Margret and H. A. Rey. It was really interesting! I am planning to borrow it from the library to read. As for the book. In my opinion it was kind of crazy with several small stories within it and it should have been split in to a few books. It was still fun but kind of long to keep a 14 month old's attention. It's fun to see where George started though!

This post talks about a visit to a toy store, a hot air balloon, first day of school (which we ended up buying), and George feeding the animals.

This post talks about George visiting an ice cream shop.

And this one is about George's airplane trip.

We also recently got Curious George Plants a Seed
George decides to plant everything in the ground to see if it grows. It is a level 1 reader and it has activities to teach how to plant a plant and to see how water is absorbed by celery. I think we'll enjoy reading this book over and over!

Curious George Takes a Train
When Monkey found the George books yesterday we HAD to buy this one. We also got this book (That's Not My Train... an Usborne touchy-feely book) because Monkey loves trains. He's been on our public transportation train a couple of times and loves to play with trains on train tables. We got him/I painted him a name train for his first birthday. SO I couldn't resist this book. It would be a fun book to read to a kid before they go on a train. George ends up mixing all the numbers up on the train board and confuses everyone but keeps a kid off the train tracks so of course everyone forgives him. It was a fun story.