Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you and yours!!
Just a Few Things This Week
We didn’t do any formal school time this week and probably won’t next week either. ‘Tis the season for celebrating! And learning hard lessons on being patient while waiting for exciting holidays. DJ received the Melissa & Doug Pattern Blocks and Boards for his birthday. His initial response was frustration when he didn’t have the dexterity to make the patterns without the tiles sliding all over. After getting some great advice, I began playing with the tiles without the pattern…
Still Learning
DJ started out his “school” this week by having me help him put this world puzzle together that he got for his birthday. While he has mastered the 12 piece wooden Melissa & Doug jigsaw puzzles, a puzzle with this many pieces and such a complex picture is still beyond him. I simplified the task by stacking the pieces into 7 piles corresponding to each continent. We started with Antarctica and worked our way clockwise around the map. When the…
More School Days
DJ and I went to a puppet show of the Very Hungry Caterpillar this week. The puppeteers were from Nova Scotia so when we came home, we pulled out the World Map puzzle to see where Nova Scotia is. DJ’s grandparents recently went to San Diego for the winter so I showed him where we live, where San Diego is and where Nova Scotia is. I had told him it would take two days to drive to San Diego, which…