My little lovelies A2 and C2 have FINALLY got past chewing on everything and now can be trusted to actually draw with coloured pencils rather than create an interesting salad meal with them! The two of them just adore O5 and clambered up to the table as soon as O got out his Narnia activities.O loves Mazes, Wordsearches and Dot to Dots. He is super quick at completing all of these things...he has a real gift for anything that involves spatial skills or patterning. C and A were very excited when mummy showed them how to draw around their hands on the paper...and mummy was ecstatic when they both recognised their own names written onto the paper. It satisfies the ex-schoolteacher in me when we all sit up at the table and "do work" together...the cool thing is that my children don't distinguish between learning and playing as many kids at school do from an early age.
In our house reading, drawing, learning to count and add and subtract, doing puzzles and writing letters to friends is all as much fun as jumping on the trampoline, going to the park or making a construction site in the sandpit...learning is fun and playing is learning.
2 comments:
totally agree with your last statement
and they look very engrossed in what they are doing :)
jen at http://jenz.wordpress.com/
I know what ya mean with the whole 'school teacher within' thing. Jordan and I have been doing some Jolly Phonics together and it is so rewarding when he 'gets it'!
Good on you for providing a stimulating and safe learning environment for your little ones. It does so give them a headstart in life. Protect them from the myth that learning is boring and a chore....as hard as that is!...and learning will be a pleasure in life.
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