Good Night Gorilla

The first Tot School unit of the year was Good Night Gorilla, which we did the week of Jace's Birthday. I pretty much just took all my ideas from Kristin's blog, because they were so fun! Jace absolutely LOVES this book. He has read it every day for the past 2 weeks and I don't see an end in sight. Now that he is talking up a storm, HE reads it to Matt and I. He makes up his own story, but it is the cutest thing to listen to. We did a couple days of tot-school at night with Matt because we were busy during the day. It was fun to watch Matt join in on the fun!

 Jace practiced matching objects with their shadows. 

He also matched the colored key to the same colored cage to unlock the animals.

Reading the book with dad.

Practicing unlocking the lock with a key. He struggled with this the first day, but he would ask for "Jace's Key" during the week and he eventually got it by the end of the week.

We watched the animated version of the book on you-tube. He asked for "Ew Ew Ah Ah" (that's what he would call the Gorilla, even though he can say Gorilla) all week. We watched this many times.

We colored a Coloring sheet of the zoo keeper and monkey. 

Here is our edible zoo. Green jello, cheerios, shredded coconut, mini chocolate chips in smashed Annie's chocolate cookies. All things we had in the pantry minus the jello. :) 

We ended the week at the zoo (his birthday!). He LOVED the zoo. I'll write more about it in another post. 

This was such a fun unit! Next week we will be starting Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!