In the Jungle

So this week we begin our 2nd week of tot/prek with my littlest who turned 2 this June. We're following the Letter of the Week Prep for week 2, which is Jungle. DD(2) loves books, so the real aim of at the moment is to move away from the same old books she always stuffs in my hand while I'm typing and into a wider variety with a bigger subject base. Sheer entertainment value, I'm not expecting her to learn or retain anything that I teach her at the moment. It is just time dedicated to her for the purposes of having fun, outside our normal interactions!

So a couple weeks ago (yes I've been slacking,) we picked up a stack of books at our local library, which included but was not limited to:
"Slowly, Slowly, Slowly, said the sloth", by Eric Carle
"Dandelions," by Eve Bunting
"Hug," by Jez Alborough
"Jazzy in the Jungle," by Lucy Cousins
"Rumble in the Jungle," Giles Andreae

RR/ LS (reading readiness /listening & sequencing): We have read a couple of them already but, this week I'm aiming to read 1 a day to her.

CS (Colours/Shapes): I also printed off a booklet from Enchanted Learning on the colour green (I think it is in the member section), I had to readjust it so it would fit our purposes! But she loves using descriptive words like red, blue (fav word), green and pink so I thought it might be fun to show her what green really means!

Number and Size: I borrowed some ideas for a combo file folder game / Lapbook for her which I will assemble over the next couple days. It includes a counting book to 2. And will include a Size pouch so she can stack the cards from small to large!

Motor Skills: will include the activities suggested at LOTWPrep, and will include a sensory box found here

GOOSE (nursery Rhymes): which probably falls under reading readiness but I'm giving it, it's own heading, will be "I Had a Little Nut Tree", which I will dress up with maybe stick puppets or some kind of printable thing which can be stored in the lapbook!

So there you have it. While the bigs have summer vacation, the poor little has to do school work! The aim really is to get into a routine with her, and then add the bigs to that routine one at a time, so that I don't feel so overwhelmed come the start of school in August/September!