We spent the week exploring the world of animals: wild and farm. We ended up using the book "For You are a Kenyan Child" as the "rowed" book for the week. We read it daily, sometimes twice at Rachel's request. At first it was a bit over her head, but by the end of the week, she had absorbed it and started pointing out things in the pictures that I had missed. We all (Dad included), ended up learning what a Bush Baby was. It appears on virtually every page of the book and I had paid it no attention, focusing on larger comprehension issues.
Last night, I was playing with Rachel using our alphabet cards that have an animal on every card, along with its name and its starting letter. Some of the cards are landscape and some portrait. The animals are sometimes askew on the cards.
We sorted them into fish, birds, mammels and bugs. We'd never done this before, so I wasn't sure she could do it. No problem.
So, then, I remembered rivka had her son sort a deck according to landscape or portrait orientation. Ok, let's see if she can get the hang of it. I showed her an example of landscape and an example of portrait. Then, I handed her the deck. She sorted the deck, no problem. What weirded me out was that no matter how the card was turned in her hand, she got it in the right pile without physically turning the card to see how it compared to the example. I have no idea what she was keying off of. She didn't take any time thinking about it or turning her head.
Things that worked well this week:
1. The visit to the fair
2. Cleaning out her art and "puzzle" drawers upstairs. She ended up playing with a couple of things she hadn't looked at in ages.
Things that didn't work so well this week:
1. Comparing crayon colors to those those colors found in a picture
2. Looking at where grandma was on a daily basis. It was just too abstract.
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