Are you ready for our last new tot school theme for the year? We are loving our spring themes so I added this frog theme to our calendar this year. Check out this week full of all kinds of frog themed learning and fun! **This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. View our full disclosure policy here.** Here were our plans for Frog Week: And here are the details of each activity: Here are the books that we used to begin each day: I Love Frogs (Rookie Toddler) by Children’s Press There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog by Lucille Colandro Jump, Frog, Jump! by Robert Kal ..read more

Our five senses tot school unit was full of exploration and learning. We had so much fun learning about our sense of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch that big sister Madelynn even joined us for a lot of our activities. **This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. View our full disclosure policy here.** Here were our plans for 5 Senses Week: And here are the details of each activity: Here are the books that we used to begin each day: Hearing by Rebecca Rissman Smelling by Rebecca Rissman Seeing by Rebecca Rissman Touching by Rebecca Rissman Tasting by Rebecca Rissm ..read more

I’m so excited to share our next Tot School theme with you, Reindeer! We already have a Christmas and Gingerbread theme for December, but we added a Reindeer theme this year for even more holiday themed fun and learning. **This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. View our full disclosure policy here.**   Here were our plans for our Reindeer theme: And here are the details for each activity: Reindeer Theme Books: The Itsy Bitsy Reindeer by Jeffrey Burton Eight Jolly Reindeer by Ilanit Oliver Olive the Other Reindeer by J. Otto Seibold and Vivian Walsh The Great Rein ..read more

We have so much to be thankful for this year with another little turkey joining our family last month! November has flown by but we kept busy between the baby snuggles with our new Tot School Thanksgiving theme these past few weeks. **This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. View our full disclosure policy here.** Here were our plans for our Thanksgiving theme: And here are the details for each activity: Here are our favorite Thanksgiving books that we used to begin each day: How to Catch a Turkey by Adam Wallace The Thankful Book by Todd Parr Ten Thankful Turkeys by An ..read more

This year I am so excited to be starting tot school for the second time with my sweet little Aubrey! She is 2 1/2 now and loved our Baby Bins last year, but is SO ready for more than one bin/activity a day.  I won’t be blogging about our themes each week, as we will be repeating the same Tot School activities I did 2 years ago with Madelynn, but I will sharing our activities on Instagram and I will be adding some new themes throughout the year. I will be sure to pop in with our new activities and ideas as those themes come up! Our first NEW theme this year is About Me. **This post conta ..read more

It’s finally summer here in Wisconsin, and after the longest winter ever, it feel so good to get outside and enjoy the sunshine! So I guess it’s time to come to terms with the fact that our little baby Aubrey isn’t really a baby anymore now that she’s 2.  That means we are wrapping up baby bins this week, and she will be diving in to our tot school themes this fall! **This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. View our full disclosure policy here.** Here is a look at our second set of 6 seasonal themed baby bins: Here are the details for each of our activities: Summe ..read more

What better way to celebrate the end of our preschool year, than with a week full of carnival themed learning? I hope your kids enjoy these summery carnival themed activities as much as Madelynn did! **This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. View our full disclosure policy here.** Here were our plans for our carnival theme: And here are the details for each activity: Carnival of the Animals: We started off the week listening to the music from Camille Saint-Saëns’s and moving like the animals in Carnival of the Animals by Jack Prelutsky. This book has a po ..read more

We wrapped up our animal themed baby bins this week learning all about ocean animals.  We had lots of fun sorting, painting, and trying out lots of sensory experiences as we learned about sea creatures. **This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. View our full disclosure policy here.**  Here is a look at our 6 animal themed baby bins: Here are the details for each of our activities:    Ocean Theme Read Aloud: Aubrey loves books with flaps to lift and this ocean book quickly became a favorite. Each page in Deep Sea Dive by Salina Yoon has a brigh ..read more

We are getting ready for summer here with our ocean theme which is always one of our favorites! Just 2 more weeks of preschool with my little ones before we take a break for the summer! **This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. View our full disclosure policy here.**   Here were our plans for our ocean theme: And here are the details for each activity: Ocean Vocabulary: Our first book this week was Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea by Jan Peck. While reading I used picture cards to reinforce new words. Then Madelynn made an ocean vocabulary book ..read more

This week we learned all about cows, pigs, horses and more with our farm themed baby bins.  We had so much fun with lots of sensory experiences this week as we learned about farm animals. **This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. View our full disclosure policy here.**  Here is a look at our 6 animal themed baby bins: Here are the details for each of our activities: Farm Theme Read Aloud: Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle is already a favorite in our house and even though we already used it for our blue themed week, I knew I had to bring it back out for ou ..read more