Week two - 2014

This was our "B" week. 

Jace's bible story was about Jacob and Esau and the trick played on their father. The first day I read it to him, I felt like it might go over his head. I always try to read the story to him, directly from the scriptures, only substituting words when I absolutely have to (in this case, explaining raiment and venison). 

The second day, we cut a brown grocery bag open into a shirt and Jace glued cotton balls onto it for Esau's hair. I had him explain the craft to Jeff later, and he even remembered the names Jacob and Esau. So, some of it must be sinking in. 

For a fun break, we played dress up. I've only recently started putting a box of clothes together for them to dress up in, so the selection is not huge. But it has a couple of tube tops that we use as skirts, some scarves, and a hat. He seems to have fun doing this. It feels like learning but with more fun involved. 

The material has him sorting and matching different objects a lot. This week, I placed a line of our shoes out and he matched the sequence with the other pair. 

As it was "B" week, we made banana bread. He had a good time helping open bananas and put the ingredients together in the bowl. He even used the mixer by himself (with me holding the very end of it). We tried a new recipe (Trisha Yearwood one) and it was pretty good. The particular site I got it from recommended a "streusel" lining, but it turned out that it burned the bottom of the bread to the pan. So, we ate bottomless banana bread. 

I also found a book at the DI that has him counting to 100 by 5s using Reese's Pieces. It is fun, like the Cheerios books, but I think it's too early to expect him to have an attention span beyond maybe 40. 

We worked on writing the letters A and B tonight. I am thinking of looking into "Handwriting Without Tears", maybe it can teach me some tricks to help him write letters more legibly. I know it's not super important yet, but I think it frustrates him anyway. 

Name Writing.

It's amazing to me that Jace can already basically write his name. It's in all caps and sometimes backwards, and the letters are sometimes sideways, but I can tell it's his name. 

3 years and 10 months old.