Letters From the Homefront

We actually have been finished with colors for a few weeks now, but I realized I never shared our black and white color week. I had so little for both that I needed to do them together, and I think it worked out well, since they both highlight something important in the color study - the absence of color, and the culmination of all colors combined. I will start with our trays and sensory box. I only made two additional trays this time to go alongside our box. In our Sensory box we had: White  decorative marbles Black   pom poms Black  and  White  zebra striped notebook White  key chain (stretchable) Black  key chain (stretchable) Black  and  white  mini's - gorilla, cow, sheep, felt dog and cat, monkey, zebra(s), and miniature bowl.    One to One correspondence tray -  white  painter's palette and  white  marbles Zebra puzzle Buddy Boy enjoyed this tray, an...

                 *LINKING UP TO TOT SCHOOL GATHERING PLACE* Seeing as how these are such 'girl colors' (yes, in our house, they are still girl colors! We have enough girls that we have never had to tell our boys that they are girl colors - they figured it out on their own!), I wasn't sure how much Buddy was going to enjoy these colors. In fact, oddly enough, I had the least of all for these colors, I think. I had a little of this, and a little of that, but nothing that screamed out for much creative genius in tot trays. So we went a little simple with the ideas - things that were easy to put together, which is a good thing since life seems to be extremely busy for us here lately. Here are the trays: Pink and Purple Sorting Pink and Purple One-To-One correspondence - hand transfer Pink and Purple puzzles: Purple Grapes and a Pink and Purple Elephant Pink and Purple Sensory Bucket: Pink Scoop - Target Dollar Sp...

*LINKING UP TO TOT SCHOOL GATHERING PLACE AT 1+1+1* *LINKING UP TO MONTESSORI MONDAY AT LIVING MONTESSORI NOW* Well, I am finally getting around to posting about our Brown/Orange weeks!  Since I didn't have as large a variety in the two colors, I decided it would be ideal to combine them. Add to that the season change, and Fall fit right in with the colors! It worked out to just devote the entire month of November to the brown/orange theme with some Fall inspiration. I also wanted to keep it simple because it turned out to be a very busy month! Due to that, I only started with three main trays/activities to see if 'less was better' with Buddy Boy. Without further ado, here are the trays: The first one was oh, so simple: A basket of brown and orange Unifix blocks :) The second was a small puzzle that I found at the Dollar Tree in a 3 pack. This one just so happened to be a brown and orange monkey. He also had a  brown / orange /Fall senso...

*LINKING UP TO MONTESSORI MONDAY* *LINKING UP TO TOT SCHOOL GATHERING PLACE* *Buddy Boy is 33 months old* (2 yrs, 9 months) The last couple of weeks we have been working on the color GREEN ! I'll give you a quick look at his trays, then give a few fun action shots and talk about what we had fun with, and what wasn't touched quite as much. GREEN Sensory Bin GREEN poms GREEN gems GREEN gel ice cubes GREEN miniatures, snakes, dinosaurs, etc. GREEN wooden sandwich pieces from our Melissa and Doug sandwich set GREEN foam hands GREEN puzzle pieces from a wooden shapes puzzle GREEN light up ring GREEN stretchy key chain GREEN Toy Story dinosaur (gotta love Rex) GREEN frogs GREEN bear family counters Our green book - this time, I didn't turn it into a book, but rather left the cards separate.  Green bowling. Green lacing sneaker and green shoelace Green My First Crayola crayon - I took this before putting it on a...