Opportunities

K's Work

K has a current fascination with having an 'activity' (worksheet, colouring in page) waiting for her on the table when she wakes up each morning. She has started asking me at bed time, to write myself a note to remember to put something on the table. K normally wakes between 5.30am and 6.00am. So these activities are normally done some time between 5.30 and 6.30 in the morning. I try and put out a simple worksheet or something easy to follow, so we can continue to get ready for work.

So far this week, we have done the following morning activities:
* Monday - two pages of a sticker book that Nana bought. K had to find the correct stickers to place on the shapes. She then drew a line between the shapes and their names. We sounded out the first few letters of each shape to help her find the correct word.

* Tuesday - two counting sheets where K had to count the objects then draw a line to the correct number. We talked about the numbers 10-15. K wrote a large 10, 11 and 12 on separate papers. She then found and circled the 10s, 11s and 12s on a page of numbers Mum had written. K can count to 20 and recognise/write numbers 1-9. We are going to start working on recognising the numbers 10-20 as the next step.

* Wednesday - drawing the correct number of apples on each apple tree page, numbers 1-20.

The other time K normally likes to busy herself is of an evening, usually after dinner between 6.30pm and 7. This week we:

* Monday - read a little about the boodies (burrowing bettongs) that we saw on the weekend, and coloured in a picture of a boodie. We also made cupcakes and tried to mix some different colours with the dye - making orange, purple, pink and aqua.

* Tuesday - coloured in a B is for Bee picture. We talked about the fact that we now know B is also for bilby and boodie. We practised writing 10, 11 and 12 in the bath (with soap and a drop of food colouring). K drew a picture. We weren't allowed to look at it until she had finished. She drew a strawberry tree with a swing hanging from it :-)

 

 

* Wednesday - Dad and K wrote the numbers 1-20 and hid them outside. When I got home, we went on a number hunt to find the number treasures.

 

 

Of course all week there was plenty of swinging.

 



 

Time during the week is always limited. It is very easy to after work, focus on the cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing that needs to get done. I have to remind myself to find these daily opportunities to play and engage, and accept that a messy house at this point in our lives is okay.