improving focus

Jordy has chosen to work with his sorting games a few times over the last week and he will do part of the work and then things deteriorate. He’ll pour all the grains onto the base tray and swish them around and the tip them on the carpet and decide he is finished…. typical 2yr old behaviour… ?? will come up with some ideas to refocus his attention.

He enjoyed painting, looking through his nature basket, and his basket of interesting things today…. not sure what to call that! An odds and ends basket?? Also his fishing game and cylinder blocks. I’d like to expand on the cylinder blocks and have him arrange them in order outside of the actual block.

And he put together his ring tower in the right order today for the first time that i have seen. I now have a growing appreciation for the advantage of having them all exactly the same except for a graduation of size as he spent most of the time arranging them according to whichever colour he preferred next. It was not until i asked which was the biggest, and then the next biggest that he put it together. After doing it once though he went back to choosing colours and making them get stuck so they made the post look like a rocket….?

story telling

i need to do more stories with hi. I am going to come up with some little stories that can be told with a scene. Not sure what that is called… but we have lots of animals and trees, rocks and sticks etc so i should be able to come up with something…. i bought some coloured paddlepop sticks last week too so we might incorporate some craft and make a scene to tell a story on.

Origami & Play-Doh

Origami is probably the only real craft activity we do at the moment… not sure what else counts as craft! We have also coloured in paper to make rockets out of…  Oh, and play-doh.  Jordy enjoys rolling the playdoh and making worms and snakes and snails.

So far the origami is mostly me making things although Jordy tells me what he wants me to make and he helps press down the folds etc.

I think i should make more play-doh as it has been a while since we played with it properly and i think he would have a lot of fun with it now. That will be on my list of things to do next week.