"S" Based Activities

Immediately after her craft work, Sophie began to play with her 2-piece puzzles. She is getting quite good with putting puzzles together although she does not necessarily have the patience to do it properly or "gently". At one point, she was trying to force fit the "carrot" (suppose to match with "orange" piece) and "rabbit" (suppose to match with "furry" piece) pieces.

And when she fitted the "alligator" piece to its corresponding texture piece, she began to put her arms together and "snap" like the mouth of an alligator. She even wanted me to stop my camera to do it with her.

After all the excitement, I wanted her to slow down so I took out the "red collage" and introduced the colour "red" to her. She is still not very good with colours so I hope to work on that more.

During morning snack time, I made Sophie a strawberry & banana smoothie. She did not really like the taste but she was very keen on drinking from MY mug.

After we cleaned up (she spilt my smoothie!), she decided to cut up some "vegetables" and "fruit" to make a "salad".

Then out of nowhere, she found my piggy bank with 12 $1 coins in it. So, she kept dropping them in and taking them out. Of course I tried to get her to count as she did it.

After Sophie's nap and lunch, she spent some time with Ah Gong and Ah Mah. They played, sang and watched TV. I took the opportunity to get my materials ready to make her a "snake".Once Ah Gong and Ah Mah left, I took her back to the room and drew her a circle on a piece of construction paper. I left it on her learning board so that she could look at it all the time. I was going to let her paste circle labels on the "snake" to reinforce that.

For the "snake", I rolled 3 pieces of green construction paper and cut slits on the centre piece before attaching them together. Sophie seemed to know my intention as she tried to insert the "head" and "tail" to the "body" for me.

The moment Sophie got her hands on the labels, she started to peel them out and stick them on the "snake" very efficiently. Of course, she could not resist playing with the "snake" for the rest of the evening. She even insisted that I must hold the "snake" like a puppet.

Snake

Just before the day ended for Sophie, we put up all the pictures of animals and objects that begin with the letter "S" on the self-adhesive board.