This was a brand-new movie. The French was very fast. I’m not sure I’d recommend it for the future, but Pegasus says he understood everything. He also took out toys immediately following the movie and had them re-enact most of the movie, so I’m guessing that he understood most of it.
Dance
I haven’t been doing much formally for this one. I’ll put music on and he’ll dance to it unprompted. (repeated from last week)
Music
He has been diligent about practising his scales and doing the exercise from the book. He also says out loud what the scale letters are as he plays them. My mom noticed that he’s been popping his elbows out, so he’s actively trying to keep them tucked.
Crochet
I helped him do several blocks of stitches… probably about 4 inches.
Basic Information
We alternated between listening to videos for the days of the week and months of the year (M, W, F), and attempting to put them in order with the pieces of paper (days on Tuesday, months on Thursday). He sang along unprompted. The days of the week song that we’ve been listening to has BEEN REMOVED and I don’t know who made it so we can’t look it up with the wayback machine! Pegasus is very upset about this (as am I). I’ve reached out to Dragon’s Kindergarten teacher in hopes that she has the link, but I haven’t heard back yet.
Printing words
He has been improving slowly. I like that I don’t have to fight him to get him to do it. He is very pleased with himself for completing them, and usually writes more words than I ask him to do (I split them up over a couple days because he was overwhelmed that first week).
Counting objects/math-type activities
I tried to let him count on his own this week, and he got very angry and didn’t want to do it. It’s frustrating when he’s used to doing it one way and doesn’t want to change things up.
Storytime
We got new mini French books on Monday. I am getting him to read the small words that he knows, like ‘le’ and ‘la’, and I’m trying to get him to read the bigger words that show up multiple times in the same book.
Activity
Draw a monster mask (web templates) – Dragon used this one, Pegasus used this one
I had forgotten that Dragon hadn’t cut very close to the line when she did this activity, and was surprised when Pegasus did the same thing. (I didn’t know it was the same thing until a few days later.) He really didn’t want to cut the paper close to the tabs (for threading the yarn that would tie his mask to his head), and kept resisting finishing his mask until he came up with the suggestion of cutting the tabs off entirely and putting the mask on a popsicle stick. I am very impressed with his problem solving.
Spooky handprint – do NOT use construction paper for this activity! It doesn’t work! Regular printer paper works perfectly, and both kids enjoyed making their handprint and then painting over it.
Cheesecloth ghosts – VERY messy, definitely take the advice of putting down a plastic bag/sheet! (at least it’s just glue and water, but still…it gets everywhere. Also, I suggest you have two people to do the laying of the cheesecloth over the balloon, because it’s really hard to do with only one pair of hands. It also requires two layers of cheesecloth, and needs to dry overnight, so don’t forget to account for that!
