A Day in our Life

 Creative Play


Michael's imagination has been creating such fantastical stories I decided to get out the forest mat with the gnomes and wildlife so he could create.  He spread out the animals and trees and placed the gnomes right to sleep.

 As I watched him he added bears and beavers to the scene. Beavers are a favorite topic right now.  He had the animals talk to the gnomes and it was delightful to watch his play life grow.  His stories are filled with good  versus  bad and has many elements of the fairy tales he so loves to have read to him.

I would like to make some continent mats with wildlife and elements of the cultures from each place to share with him the many different ways that people live.  He is interested in Antarctica and  Australia right now so that will be my  next focus.  Penguins and Kangaroos are waddling and hopping around as we play!  Katy Kangaroo is a favorite book as well.




MATH


In the afternoon we got out a counting activity for Michael to use.  He was excited to spread them all out
on the table and begin the counting and matching process.

He is improving with counting correctly. He is solid on his counting up to ten.   He still counts from one on for each problem so we need to work more on counting on from the first grouped number and then adding the second one in two steps.

Here is a close up of the counting activity.

The other day I was talking with Michael about going to see a school that we may have him go to, he
shook his head and said, "Why would I go to school somewhere else, I have you and a classroom here."
He does, and I do love to teach him.  We have one more year to decide the best place for Michael.
For now it is on our journey here at home, exploring and making moments count.