Tot School Sunday #1

This week was kind of crazy, with school programs to attend in the middle of the day, Daddy's work schedule changing, and just life-in-general sorts of things, so we only did one real "sit down" Tot School time this week. But I did get lots of pictures, and we had LOTS of fun!

Nathanael has been very interested by the refrigerator magnets for quite some time, so I thought it would be neat to let him play with some "real" magnets and see what he would do with them. I had wanted to take a picture of all of the supplies that we used, but I can't bring them out without him wanting to play with them, LOL. So instead of a photograph, here is a list:

Obvious caveat -- most if not all of these things are NOT items that small children should EVER have access to without constant, vigilant parental supervision. I made sure that I knew exactly what we had out and that everything was put away properly afterwards.

• Magnetix from big sister's collection (two bars of each color and four balls)
• a large-ish screw
• a large-ish nail
• a metal lid from an old cookie tin
• a large washer
• a bell
• a scrap-booking brad
• a binder clip
• a pair of tweezers
• a small wrench
• an adapter from a socket wrench
• two magnets from our fridge.

It was really fun watching him figure out that the colored magnetix bars were necessary to hold the other pieces together... at first he would get really frustrated when, for example, the tweezers wouldn't stick to the wrench, but then he would figure out that a magnetix bar would hold on to the wrench, and then he could stick the tweezers onto the same bar and make a little stack. So much fun to watch those connections being made!


He became really frustrated by the way like ends of the magnetix bars would repel each other. But after a few attempts to force the bars to attach, he figured out that by turning one bar over and using the other end, they would do what he wanted them to do! So after a bit of trial and error, he was able to use all of the bars and build this tower:

So there it is! Our very first official Tot School post! I'm looking forward to next week... not really sure what we're going to do yet, but I'm sure it will be great!