Tot School: Farm (Granja) Theme

For now, we do Tot School mostly on the weekends. Since moving to Ohio, my husband is still looking for a job utilizing his degree, so for now, I am working full time during the week. I work at the preschool Caitlyn is attending. It is a wonderful school and I do enjoy working there. However, since we were doing daily school in Texas, she is not really challenged by the material at school. That is why I continue to do Tot School on the weekends. I want her to continue to be challenged and learn. Some days, she will ask to do school work when we get home, on those days we will do school work. Most of the time though, we save school work for the weekends! I want to make sure she is both challenged and has time to rest her mind, just play and relax! This weekend we are working on our Farm theme!

I encourage Caitlyn to use Spanish as often as possible, during school time and just throughout our day.    My husband and I try to use Spanish often as well so that she can hear us speaking Spanish.

We starting out using the Colores Granja printable I posted earlier in the week. She really enjoyed getting to color the pages of the book herself!

We had a visitor during school time today!

Caitlyn said that turtle needed to have school today too! He will show up in several pictures today!

After coloring our Colores Granja printables, we worked with our farm animal flash cards. We pulled out our farm animal counters and matched the animals to the cards.

She was very bothered by the fact there isn't a rooster in our farm animal set. She said, "There isn't a gallo, what do we do now?" I told her we were trying to see which ones matched and they didn't all need a match. She still wasn't very happy about it though.

Next, we sorted our farm animal counters by color and then made patterns. We made color patterns and animal patterns. I encouraged Spanish throughout the activity and she did excellent. She really has patterns down but she enjoys making them. We continue to practice regularly.

When she was finished with the counters, I pulled out her reading lesson book. Some days, she is really excited to get to the next story and we will do a few pages. Other days, she only wants to do one. Today we did one page.

I love and highly recommend our reading lesson! It is The Reading Lesson by Michael Levin. We bought our copy on Amazon. If you are thinking about using this program with your child, I suggest checking your local library first. We were lucky enough to check the book out from the library before buying it. They start off with the most commonly used letters in the English language and add a few letters or letter blends with each lesson. This system is working out excellently for Caitlyn. We also use the You Can Read sight word program from 1plus1plus1.

After her reading lesson, we reviewed her sight words so far.

Then, she created a monster with her Trio Blocks.

We ended our Tot School day with lunch!

Tuna sandwhich on organic bread cut in to a Chick, organic tomatoes, organic squash and organic milk!