Scattered Yet Together: Green Week in Tot School!

A new week of Tot School for Curls has started, and this week he's having fun exploring and learning about the color green! We are having a lot of fun with green themed, Montessori inspired activities. Here are the things we are doing this week!

Fine Motor

The parmesan cheese container from a few weeks ago has returned and been partnered up with some lengths of green pipe cleaners. Curls enjoys putting the pipe cleaners in the container and then shaking it around like a maraca. He really enjoyed the poms through the lid from the past two weeks, but I felt the need to change it up just a little bit, mostly because I needed the poms for our practical life activity this week!

Practical Life - Pom Transferring w/ Tweezers

Curls has continued to show interest in transferring activities, often pouring water or juice from one cup to another. I have been wanting to give him the opportunity to try tweezers, and these kid sized bug tweezers were just the ticket. The poms are pretty easy to pick up using the tweezers, so Curls got the hang of it after watching me just a couple times.

Language/Matching

I put this little matching activity together for Curls the other evening because I couldn't find any books that focused on the color green that weren't tore up. I just grabbed a bunch of green things and made some matching cards for them, all out of index cards. I used leaves, some grass, pictures of frogs, and pictures of green beans. Curls goes through the cards with me, and we talk about how all the pictures are green, and we name the pictures. Once in awhile he will match an unlabeled card with it's labeled match!

Two Color Sorting

For color sorting this week, I used some yellow and green popsicle sticks and two containers that I colored with some washable markers. Curls is showing a little more interest in sorting by color again, most notably by not stepping on the sorting tray! He still needs a bit of guidance, but he doesn't ignore the sorting activity altogether anymore, and I'd say that's a step in the right direction!

I recently bought a laminator and have been getting some color cards and the pieces to our daily calendar/weather board laminating so that we can start using it in our daily schedule. I'm very excited about it, and will be sharing how I'm putting mine together and discussing it's components in an upcoming post!

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