Continued with an educational week, Ross gained at least 2 tokens per day, and is really enjoying the challenge, even if I have to push him a bit.
17 March
I’ve been using pages from here http://www.beam.co.uk/uploads/mompdf/Footprints.pdf and I’ve found them very useful.
This is a number search, ‘footprints’ hide numbers on the page, the game asks players to find a number and mark the paper, luckily we have plastic bingo counters with numbers so we can complete the grid:
We didn’t do all 100, probably about 25 before Ross got bored. He can’t do them easily, and seems to mix up whether a number is 25 or 52 (for example).
This may be James May’s least favourite game, but Ross loves Escape from Colditz. There are lots of rules to follow (eg. only pick a card when you roll a 3, 7, 11) and lots of cards with instructions. I brought out our pennies so Ross could add up the numbers on the dice – dice themselves are easy.
18 March
This is a great phonics game, footprints with the endings of 3 and 4 letter words, and cards with a picture and the first letter of the word.
A number of interesting things:
Ross could guess the word from the picture, and say the word out loud and was happy to walk around the footprints while I said ‘hot’ and ‘cold’, however it was a real struggle for him to get the right phonic, he could pick a footprint with one correct letter, but not two. When he got frustrated he would pick and footprint and seemed not to be able to recognise any letters.
As he got each word (with a lot of help) we blu-tac’d the word to the phonic, later I wrote the word on the footprint and removed the picture. Ross really struggled to match the picture (and first letter) to the phonic with the word written on it. He reversed words regularly got very confused over ‘p’ and ‘d’.
19 March
Lazy day, spent the morning in Polar Palace which was noisy with a music group, Ross had a look but did not want to join them.
Came home having only had a couple of incidents with other children. I persuaded Ross to do some painting although he now says “I don’t do messy”. As can be seen he has managed to keep the colours clean (although he didn’t use the green) which I would not expect from a 4 yr old.
