Tot School : 12 months 3 weeks old

Here were the trays and I introduced a simple sensory box this round.

Right-Left, Top-Bottom
1. Leapfrog Letters Factory for phonics
2. Cereal Can with wooden sticks for fine motor skills
3. Mini muffin tray with lemon, apple, peach figurines for 1-1 correspondence
4. Shakers filled with googly eyes, soya beans, cotton, eva foam
5. M&D Pegged shape puzzle for pincer grip
6. Stacking Bowl (from previous weeks)
7. M&D Geometric Stacker (from previous weeks)
8. Sensory tray filled with pom poms, wooden blocks, pipes, screw & nuts
I'm keeping 6 & 7 since Little J was very much into it

This week, i put up a seperate corner as Little J's reading corner.
There was no specific theme at the moment.
His favorite books are Hungry Caterpillar & Peter Rabbit ( yea... since 6 months ago).
Quite a loyal baby.
At the top of the shelve, i put in some sensory flash cards from Alex.

He was attracted with the figurines.
He loved playing with the muffin tray.
Just using one hand, he flipped over and things got messier.
After few attempts, Little J managed to put in a unit into one of the holes.
Words introduced : lemon, apple, peach, yellow, red.
At this point of time, he was still mouthing.
All these activities were done under CLOSE supervision.

Little J moved around as he likes.
At a minute he was playing the tray,
the next he may just grab his favourite book.
And the next minute he may be removing the
felt alphabets from the felt chart.


We can spent almost an hour at school.
Little J was so engaging at the activities.

After playing with this stacking bowls for weeks,
he managed to stack 1-2 bowls.
I used this opportunity to name out the colors while he was playing.

This was one of his favorite tray.
Little J really used up his energy to shake vigorously.
Words like loud, soft, hard, gentle, soya beans, cotton, star, eyes were introduced.
He will also pressed the bottle, tried to open the cap and of course 'tasted' the bottle too.

My funny boy!
He sat on the tray, pull out the inserts, peeled off the masking tape and trying to put his face into the container!
Those masking tape came off mostly after few rounds.
Good fine motor skill actually.

Little J will never miss trying on his fav stacker each time we school.
He showed good progress with it.
He was able to stack 3-4 blocks, moving one block from one wooden rod to another, uses his tiny finger to press into the hole and slide it down when the finger hole met the rod.
Words like circle, square, hexagon, blue, green, yellow, red, orange were introduced.

Fine motor skill

Little J likes pressing and pulling off the alphabet.
Phonics are stressing me out!
I am learning with Little J the same time.
We  leveraged on youtube, The letter sounds song.

It was quite easy to show him shapes flash card.
We have been into The Shapes Song for awhile.
He likes 'circle' very much. He will hold this card dearly and moved his finger around the circle.
Sometimes he will just picked this card and hold it wherever he was going. Like his best friend.

There was no rules in 'school'.
This was the normal scene in most of our play time.
Most of the time i was like talking to myself :
'take this tray, .. put it back after you complete'
'bring out the mat'
'roll the mat and put it back'
etc
etc
I am still the one doing the cleaning.

Our first sensory bin at school.
I just put in whatever i have like wooden blocks, pompom, screws & nuts, pipes, ping pong balls, plastic mini grass.
Little J will take his time to touch and feel the items.
He likes throwing too.


It was my first experience having tot school.
I am still learning and struggling to teach.
I hope it will be better as we go along.

One thing for sure, i love spending time playing and watching Little J during our school time.
I can never trade it off with anything just to look at his progress.
He is growing really fast.

Totally addicted to him!