Tot School Color Brown

{Henry is 16 months}

Can you guess this week's color? That's right brown! Henry is obsessed with the books Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear and Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you See? so this week was pretty exciting for him.

On the activity wall this week, I keep the weather wall the same and added brown shapes and a brown bear to the felt board. We had another week of all perfectly sunny days, so Hen got very good at recognizing sunny. Although, now I'm a little excited for a rainy day, so maybe he can figure out that we don't just only put sunny up! The magnet board had a set of alphabet letters. This was the first time, I introduced letter at tot school and Henry loved singing the alphabet song.

The tot trays were not nearly as exciting as last week. But Henry still had fun. The first tray was the sensory bin. Hen's favorite thing was to put little wooden balls and blocks inside the paper towel roll and watch them fly around the room.

The second tray was a bucket of colored wooden robots and a color matching sheet. Henry could place the robots on the corresponding color. Henry liked knocking over the robots if I set the up, but wouldn't put the robots on their spots. He would point to the spot if I asked, but wasn't into placing the actual robots.

The final tray was a coloring sheet that I laminated and a dry erase marker. This was the biggest hit this week! It had a couple of bears to connect, and a large bear to color. {If anyone wants this sheet let me know -- I love sharing} For the first time, Henry actually wanted to color instead of eating the marker! He even tried the tracing -- with help, of course! It was a major improvement from last time we tried marker coloring.

The book bin was just OK this week. Henry like to look at a lot of the books but didn't really want to sit and let me read them. His favorite book this week was Hug by Jez Alborough which was all about a little brown monkey.

Other activities we did this week:

Colored with brown crayons. Sadly these were still mainly used as chew toys.

Pasted small squares of tissue paper onto a bear shape. I know I said I wasn't going to use glue anymore, but if I just hand him the paper like a sticker than he seems to work better.

Decorated brown paper with brown stickers for our tot wall.

Went to the Children's Museum and did all sorts of learning! 

See all our color units here!