Favorite Apps for Toddlers (iphone/ipad)

These are our favorite toddler apps for iphone/ipad:

• Monkey Preschool Lunchbox (Thup)
• Dora’s Skywriting ABCs (Nickelodeon)
• Giraffe’s Matching Zoo (Tomato Interactive)
• Wheels on the Bus (Duck Duck Moose)
• Shape Builder (touchscreen preschool games.com)
• Five Little Monkeys (Loeschware)
• Cupcakes (Maverik Software)
• Winnie the Pooh (Disney Digital Books)
• Preschool Adventure (3DAL)
• Feed Me (Pencilbot)
• Teach Me Toddler (24x7 digital)
• Park Math (Duck Duck Moose)
• Tozzle (nodeflexion.com)

Tot School: Dinosaurs

Today at Tot School we learned about some special creatures…DINOSAURS!  We enjoyed playing with foam dinosaur puzzles and learning how to dig for dinosaur bones (its very difficult!).  We did some fun dinosaur songs and fingerplays and practiced marching like dinosaurs to “We Are the Dinosaurs” by Lauri Berkner Band.  A fun activity we did was making dinosaur bookmarks and paper bag puppets.  We went on an adventure to find the lost dinosaurs and enjoyed a yummy snack of animal crackers, oranges and bananas. Some fun dinosaur books to enjoy are: Dinosaur Days by Linda Manning, Dinosaur Roar by Paul Stickland, Danny and the Dinosaur by Sid Hoff, Dinosaurs After Dark by Jonathan Emmett, Tyson the Terrible by Christyan Fox, How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their food? by Jane Tolen, and Time Train by Paul Fleischman.

Decorating dinosaur bookmarks

Doing crafts and workbooks

Previewing the books for storytime

"Look what I did"

Janet demonstrates how the puppet works

Working hard on his workbook

Enjoying dinosaur stories

So cute!

Dinosaur Dance

Demonstrating how dinosaurs eat

Getting some exercise on the "loop"

The airplanes zoom around the loop

ROOOAARR!!!

Jumping like a dinosaur

"I found one!"

I hid the dinosaurs!

Digging for dinosaur bones

Matching dinosaur colors

Little Paleontologist

These are really difficult to break open!

Dinosaur hand puppets

Tot School: Silly Day

A picture is worth a thousand words…

Colors and counting with the piggy bank

Finishing our animal puppets

Doing a great job in his workbook!

Color matching caps

Best friends

Hooray for sunny weather!

Kaylee helped us out with Tot School today

Taking turns on the slide