Even though there as soooo many things i want to do and even more things that Jordy is interested in at the moment i am focusing on language as that seems to be his biggest interest at the moment. I am working hard at making up the three part cards (although i guess i should call them nomenclature cards for now as that is all i am using them for). I must have made hundreds- well it feels like that anyway! I am going to get some coloured dots to stick on the back for a self-correcting check for when he starts to catagorise them. I decided to use coloured dots rather than coloured card stock so that i can have multiple dots as we build up the catagories and i introduce the concept that things can belong to more than one catagory. For example i will start with his animal pictures and have ‘animals’, ‘birds’, ‘insects’. But later on i can break those into further catagories like ‘mammal’, ‘invertebrate’ etc. But i can also use them for geography studies with native australian animals and african animals, or even things that live in the desert or in the snow etc etc. Because, like most kids, he is very interested in animals he already knows what animals live in the ocean and which live in the snow so we could probably catagorise that straight away if i can find the time to put the dots on. :-p
We did the sound ’ssss’ again this morning and built on the presentation a little. I’ll do the walk around the house later. He is busy dancing at the moment and building lego so not in the mood for quiet work. He has already sorted the coloured buttons this morning. It’s now very easy for him but i am glad he chose to work with it this morning so i could see what he what he was up to with it. I think i will leave it on the shelves for a little longer but i will remove the set of three coloured chips that is the exercise before the coloured buttons as it no longer offers any kind of challenge to him. The coloured buttons can still be sorted in order of size as well as colour and although he names the smallest and largest we have not laid them out in a line in order yet so i will introduce that later today.
A new word building puzzle from ebay arrived this morning. The puzzles are a perfect level of difficulty for him and it combines puzzles and letters!!! yay!!! Two of his favourite things! 
Yesterday was a bit of an impromptu practical life day. He worked with his play cooking pots and wooden cutting fruit. Then while i was busy with Darcy he climbed up on the chair to the bench and helped himself to the bread knife, butter, and vitaweets and made himself a snack. Had a bit of butter smeared up his arm and a big divet in the butter! LOL! But he did rather well i think. I am really glad that he showed the initiative to do it himself rather than ask. Leaving out a snackbox for him most days that he can access himself has really helped but i have to get more organised with the banana and knife so he can practice real slicing.
