Letter Of The Week - "c" For caterpillar

The day began with Sophie demanding for her markers,crayons and paint bottles as I was getting ready for her activity. Nowadays, it is really hard to contain her... I had to repeatedly tell her to "WAIT" and distract her with whatever I could get my hands on.

I thought of letting her do crayon work but she was not very keen. She was more interested in taking the lid of the container off and putting it back on again. Even when she was finally willing to doodle with them, her enthusiasm died soon after. However, look at the way she drew with her crayons... I think she was trying to learn how to hold it the way I do when I write. In the end, we switched to paint and it was better.

Perhaps I should have let Sophie paint before I cut the circles out. She found it tough to dab paint on the small pieces of cardboard with her brushes, so she used her fingers instead. When she got bored with paint, she went back to the crayons...

Before the painted "body parts" were dried, I had to let Sophie paste the dot labels onto them. I was hoping that she would get better at pasting (accuracy), which she did somehow.

Ta-da! Not very impressive at this point, but it should become better once we put them together. So the rest was my job - Oh boy, I am really looking forward to Sophie completing the whole craft on her own.

End Product - "c" for caterpillar

I read that it is not advisable to introduce the letters of the Alphabet in its chronological order because the first 5 letters are really hard to learn and it would take too long before the child can use the letters learn to form words. I agree because I know Sophie already knows a few other letters and it would be more effective to focus on those instead. Hmm... now I have to decide if I should do "D" with Sophie next week or some other letters.