I was a little nervous about this week. I hadn’t watched the French version of this movie before, plus Pegasus had said that he didn”t like any of the previous activities on Saturday (but then he did on Sunday, so…) Anyways, the week went very well.
Dance
I haven’t been doing much formally for this one. I’ll put music on and he’ll dance to it unprompted.
Music
This week, we’ve been focussing mostly on him practising his scales on the piano. He needs to build up his finger strength, especially in his baby fingers, before my mom can teach him properly. He also needs to be more familiar with the names of the keys, which I continued teaching him, both forward and backward. (repeated from last week)
Crochet
I helped him do several blocks of stitches… probably about 4 inches. He’s excited to be able to wear it, but there’s still so much left to do.
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.
Printing words
He has been improving slowly. I like that I don’t have to fight him to get him to do it.
Counting objects/math-type activities
He wanted me to move the pencil, but was willing to try a different direction for the movement. He needs work on remembering that sept comes after six.
Storytime
We read the mini French books during the week.
Activity
Sewing a button – this was the activity he was most excited about, which I found strange until he mentioned that they use Dragon’s sewn button as a buzzer in their games. So now he has one too. He did very well. (I held the button so that he wouldn’t stab himself.)
Play charades – I was a little concerned about this one, because he can’t read yet. But I had a thought the night before and it worked perfectly. I pulled up a random animal generator on my phone that did 8 animals at a time. I told him to scroll through them until he found one that he knew, and then act it out. He keeps asking to do it again, so I’m going to call this one a win, especially once he caught on that he couldn’t switch his animal to be whatever I said first lol
Nature walk – We did this on Friday, which was a PD Day, so Dragon accompanied us. She also let Pegasus borrow her camera, which worked well. The only problem was that he was more interested in looking around and walking than in taking pictures. I did manage to convince him to take a couple. We took a very similar route to the one I did for Dragon, but I had a little surprise for them, leading them onto Carlington Hill. The climb was worth it.
Pegasus’s pictures:
