3 like a B
Eli has been working on his number recognition at school, and even though they could see he understood the numbers through other work, getting him to recognise and name them was being a challenge, with him getting stuck at 3. One of his teachers said to him, “Look Eli, if you turn it over it looks like a B, three like a B.” He then starts again at one, “1…2…like a B!”
We actually took him for an assessment with the speech therapist to make sure there were no working memory or other issues, but according to her everything is perfectly fine, he just has word finding trouble which children typically grow out of. With that understanding in hand and a few guidelines from the speech therapist we’ve been helping him find the words and now he is getting very excited about his numbers, looking for them everywhere.
There is a 3 on the sail of one of the bath toy boats, and he picked it up and excitedly said, “3 like a B sail!”
Bits ‘n bobs
Eli is feeling like things get in his way, well, the thing that gets in his way the most is probably his sister…
We may have two gardeners in the family
The little guy got so much delight from the piano. It is not in this video, but he was playing and dancing to his own music.
The Barbie Bomb
We’ll never really know what happened, but whatever the explosion was, it took out Barbie, the flying horse, a mermaid and Adam.
Waiting for the fairies
Maya, Grace & Eli gathered together all sorts of bits and pieces from the garden and made a beautiful fairy garden. Once the fairy garden was complete, it was time to wait for the fairies. Grace was surprised to find some of the berries gone when she opened her eyes, but I’m pretty sure there was some slight of hand on Maya’s part…
Bike skills – level up
Eli just levelled up his bike skills – now he can get started on his on, and in his words, “Now I can ride my big bike whenever I want to! YAY!”
Water boys
Adam has been looking for whatever water he can find to splash and play, so with some beautiful weather today it was time for a bit of water fun with the rest of the boys.
Down by the river
We went for a ride in Radloff Park to practice Eli’s ever expanding bicycle skills. As we start off on our way he stopped and fell over in a patch of long grass, entirely disappearing as he went down – which was very funny to watch from behind. He looked something like this when we got it him, just with bike on top of his feet.
Having a little splash in the river
Camping out
After getting a super good deal on a tent, we needed to set it up in preparation for Grace’s class camp, and test it out with a garden camp out.
Two munchkins roasty in their sleeping bags
Tent set up and ready to go
Later….two sleepy munchkins
The big market day
Grace, Tayla, Anna & Gemma have been working on all of their wares and games for a bit longer than a month, and today it all came together at their Entrepreneurs Day market.
On sale today they had:
- Jelly delights
- Lucky packets
- Jelly boats
- Toffee apples
- Cork boats
- Build-it-yourself cork boat kits
and they also had two games,
- Boat races (with your purchased cork boat)
- Skittles
with popcorn, boat kits and a giant jelly jar as prizes.
Cork boats & build-it-yourself kits
Boat racing pool & skittles
Toffee apples were to be seen all over the market today
Some of the awesome teachers: Deon, Andrea & Chloe
Indiana and Adam – she really loves babies
Counting the loot: their profit was close to R200 each
I have been super impressed with how they have taken this on as their own, run with it, worked hard, developed and changed, and turned it into a successful event independently and with minimal adult input. I am really proud of these girls.