December 11th Report

Today, Elijah initiated both activities, which is really really great.

He picked the two new things I put on the shelves while he was sleeping. First, the smelling bottles.


He will need a new presentation next time.

For the record, I'm dissapointed in this activity. Not the activity itself, but the one I bought. The lids are hard for even an adult to operate. So, he will likely never be able to do completely independently. Which is a big dissapointment in my book.

Next, he chose the new spooning work.



Which was a big success! This must have fit his needs perfectly because he used it for almost an hour! And he picked up every little pom pom that dropped (something he did not do with earlier attempts I've had on the shelf with spooning beans or grains). He also completed the cycle and put this back on the shelf. Big success with this activity today!



- Brandy

December 9th Report

Today, we played a letter sound scavenger hunt. We looked for things that started with the sound, "a". We found...









Atom Ant and apple slices.

I think I'm going to find some more "a" items and put them in the room. Once we do a, m, t, and s, he'll be ready for BOB book # 1. He really enjoyed this activity.

After that, we read the Blue Number Counting Book.






We read it twice and he was pretty engaged the whole time.

Then we moved onto the Red Letter Alphabet Book.



He was not as engaged in this book. He really needs a tactile letter experience where we can pick just a few letters (like the sandpaper letters we have yet to purchase, perhaps soon).

We did some letter sounds and then he got up to play with his tools.


I attempted to pull him back in by looking for the letter sounds that correspond to his tools. Like "s" saw...



But, really, he wasn't interested, so I just let him play.

I would like to set up a new practical life activity where he can use real tools. He has a high interest in them right now, especially hammers. He has a hammer activity on the shelf, but tends to like getting out his "tool set" (Handy Manny tool set) then gets frustrated that these tools don't actually fix anything. Suggestions for homemade activities that could make use of his favorite tool set would be highly appreciated!

-Brandy