This week's goals:
Bible Story: Creation Day 6 (farm animals)
Bible Verse: I Thessalonians 2:13
Books: Old McDonald Had A Farm
Color: Green, Yellow
Letters: H-K
Number: 1-3
Shapes: Circle
Information: First Name and last name
Self-Care and Manners: Pick up toys
Fine Motor Skill: Finger paint in a circle
Gross Motor Skill: Rolling a large ball
What we accomplished:
Creation Day 6 - Farm Animals
We enjoyed some stickers of farm animals (from Dollar Tree yet again!) on a piece of green construction paper. Isaiah is getting better at figuring out how to maneuver stickers with his fingers--great fine motor skill practice for him.
Isaiah loves Hide and Seek, so we played with the animals! An animal would hide under a green towel and make his or her sound (because of course some of our animals are girls, you know), and Isaiah would guess which animal it was. After a few rounds, he was getting them all right! As we would take our walks outside, I would quiz him on what each animal says, and about 8 out of 10 times he would get them right, sometimes needing the first sound of a word. He always repeated the sounds, too! I'm pretty stinkin' excited about this.
He also enjoyed his (free!) Vocal Zoo app on the iPad, which has real life pictures of animals. When you touch the pictures, you get to hear the sound the animal makes. There is a "full version" that you can buy, but we're content with what we have.
Books
We actually found Old MacDonald Had a Farm at our library, because we made it to the library! Isaiah mainly liked sticking his fingers in the holes of this book, but he didn't have the patience for me to read/sing it the way the author intended. But that's OK because we read tons of animal books this week, tons for us that is. We enjoyed Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown, Doggies by Sandra Boynton, First Animals and Learning Ladders Animal Babies.
{I must confess that I didn't like this Sandra Boynton book as much as her others that I quite enjoy. We only read it once because I sensed some confusion from both my kids about the dogs making different noises. We mainly used it for counting purposes.}
Big Red Barn is now a family favorite!
Green and Yellow
We didn't focus as much on colors this week as Isaiah seems to be getting better and better at remembering them. He did work on his yellow crown though....more to be revealed later.
Letters, Numbers
We played the board game "Sorry!", and Isaiah did great counting his spaces. He also continues to correctly identify his letters from a field of four.
Circle
Our laundry basket is sort of a kidney bean in shape, but it can make great circles, especially with someone sitting in it!
First and Last Name
Isaiah is a pro!
Pick Up Toys
Isaiah loves to put things "in", so this wasn't much of an issue for us. He even likes to put little sister "in" things. :)
Fine and Gross Motor Skills
Isaiah wasn't interested in finger painting this week, but we got tons of gross motor skill practice for him with physical therapy on Monday and a physical therapy demonstration on Tuesday. We love being able to help people learn how to help other people, so when Isaiah's physical therapist, whom we absolutely ADORE, asked us to come to a class she was teaching, we rolled at the chance, since jumping at it wasn't an option. :)
Because I've waited almost 2 weeks to actually write this post, I must confess I don't remember what our favorite things were, though I think the laundry basket rides were definitely near the top of the list!
Happyplaying learning!
What we accomplished:
Creation Day 6 - Farm Animals
We enjoyed some stickers of farm animals (from Dollar Tree yet again!) on a piece of green construction paper. Isaiah is getting better at figuring out how to maneuver stickers with his fingers--great fine motor skill practice for him.
Isaiah loves Hide and Seek, so we played with the animals! An animal would hide under a green towel and make his or her sound (because of course some of our animals are girls, you know), and Isaiah would guess which animal it was. After a few rounds, he was getting them all right! As we would take our walks outside, I would quiz him on what each animal says, and about 8 out of 10 times he would get them right, sometimes needing the first sound of a word. He always repeated the sounds, too! I'm pretty stinkin' excited about this.
The animals needed a snack, too. (We couldn't have done this without, you, Aunt Beth!)
He also enjoyed his (free!) Vocal Zoo app on the iPad, which has real life pictures of animals. When you touch the pictures, you get to hear the sound the animal makes. There is a "full version" that you can buy, but we're content with what we have.
Books
We actually found Old MacDonald Had a Farm at our library, because we made it to the library! Isaiah mainly liked sticking his fingers in the holes of this book, but he didn't have the patience for me to read/sing it the way the author intended. But that's OK because we read tons of animal books this week, tons for us that is. We enjoyed Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown, Doggies by Sandra Boynton, First Animals and Learning Ladders Animal Babies.
{I must confess that I didn't like this Sandra Boynton book as much as her others that I quite enjoy. We only read it once because I sensed some confusion from both my kids about the dogs making different noises. We mainly used it for counting purposes.}
Big Red Barn is now a family favorite!
Green and Yellow
We didn't focus as much on colors this week as Isaiah seems to be getting better and better at remembering them. He did work on his yellow crown though....more to be revealed later.
This was also some good fine motor work, those jewels were tough to pick up!
Letters, Numbers
We played the board game "Sorry!", and Isaiah did great counting his spaces. He also continues to correctly identify his letters from a field of four.
Circle
Our laundry basket is sort of a kidney bean in shape, but it can make great circles, especially with someone sitting in it!
First and Last Name
Isaiah is a pro!
Pick Up Toys
Isaiah loves to put things "in", so this wasn't much of an issue for us. He even likes to put little sister "in" things. :)
Fine and Gross Motor Skills
Isaiah wasn't interested in finger painting this week, but we got tons of gross motor skill practice for him with physical therapy on Monday and a physical therapy demonstration on Tuesday. We love being able to help people learn how to help other people, so when Isaiah's physical therapist, whom we absolutely ADORE, asked us to come to a class she was teaching, we rolled at the chance, since jumping at it wasn't an option. :)
Because I've waited almost 2 weeks to actually write this post, I must confess I don't remember what our favorite things were, though I think the laundry basket rides were definitely near the top of the list!
Happy
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