B is for Basketball

Munchky is 34 months

T-Rex is 17 months

We had a lot of fun this week celebrating "March Madness" this week with a unit on basketball.  Unfortunately, we've been battling horrific teething (2 yr molars at 17 months?) and colds again!  T-Rex basically wanted me to just hold him much of the week then Mommy and Munchky got sick.  

Playing Basketball

 

Passing

Dribbling

Catching a Pass

  

Shooting

Celebrating

The boys love the ball pit we made from the pool.

We did some sorting and counting activities with the balls and played where's the brown ball....as there was only one.

Munchky let T-Rex try out the pound a ball tower for the first time.

The boys decided to help Mommy by sweeping up the balls.  (then throwing them again)

We got the families' sneakers together  to do a shoe matching activity I saw over at The Princess and the Tot. After matching we lined them up according to size.  "Daddy's are BIG!"

Mommy's must be stinky!"

The boys were excited to get some new Melissa and Doug Toys and wanted to try them out right away.

We're introducing T-Rex to shapes, colors and numbers. He doesn't seem too interested in shapes but tries to say numbers and colors.  Right now "two" and "yellow" are his favorites. And of course chewing on them.







Munchky is funny in that when the shape is not turned the right way to put in the puzzle, he turns the board to match the shape.


We didn't get to do some great basketball printables found at Two Teaching Mommies and some crafts I had planned so we we'll continue our basketball theme next week.  

Calender Time

As the boys are both under three, we don't have much of a "formal" calender time...we don't even have a calender!  We basically:
1. start with a morning prayer, 
2. determine what the weather is and then.Muncky puts up the weather card on our weather page from 1+1+1=1.
3. we sing this weather song.
4..I put up the day of the week and we sing this Days of the week song. 
5. We might sing other songs like the B-I-B-L-E (T-Rex now yells "b-ble" at the end, it's so cute), Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star or a Munchky favorite "Take Me Out To the Ball Game.."

Now:

Munchky   

stands in his "car" - this cute little rug from Ikea - T-rex is free to roam

loves doing the weather (he even changes it throughout the day, so we can sing again) 

is not interested in the days of week at all.

Coming Soon (after munchky is 3)

We'll be introducing 

the Calender - hopefully this will help him understand days better.

the Flag and the Pledge of Allegiance  

Memory Verse (we started this in Jan and munchky did great memorizing the first one, then the next week he refused to say a new one, just kept wanting to do the previous weeks.) LOL I think he thinks there's only one. 

For T-Rex:

Color of the week

Number of the Week

Shape of the Week 
Please see the calender page at 1+1+1=1
for more calender time ideas.


To  see what other Moms are doing this week for Tot School visit 1+1+1=1.