He woke up just before 7. We spent about an hour reading, starting with Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? He pointed to ‘see’ and said it, which led to me emphasizing other words and him pointing them out, mainly ‘me’ and some of the animals. Awhile later he saw the two xylophone sticks on the ground and exclaimed “11!” We ate breakfast and watched his video from class while brushing his teeth. We then did some coloring and he again helped wipe up the crayon that had gotten on the floor. We did quite a bit of music time today with the xylophone and shakers.
Then he started playing with the bricks on his own. He was carrying them to the center of the room, making a chair or tower, repeating “patience grasshopper” to himself as he worked. I saw him point out that the backhoe looked like a ‘C’, then he saw the pattern on the brick and said it looked like an ‘H’. Then he got me involved, telling me to “build something.” That something ended up being letters out of the bricks, starting with Q and D and moving on to a W and a couple of Hangeul characters.
Finally, we headed over to his class. Class went well. The biggest news was that there was a second teacher, also a man, in the class, and he speaks English. Class today was about dressing up as an Eskimo (August refused that part), building the entrance to an igloo, spearing fish, putting them on sticks, and cooking them on a barbecue grill. He really liked both the spearing the fish and the cooking part. Actually, his favorite thing was scraping the spear back and forth over the containers that held the ice blocks – it made a nice noise, I think.
After class we went downstairs and got a couple things at the grocery store, including more fruit chips and some kimbap and a ham and potato sandwich for lunch. We looked for washable dry erase markers in the art section. While I was looking for those, August was excited by all the crayons and markers. He had the basket and started filling it up. It became a competition between who could empty or fill the basket faster. Finally, I prevailed.
We went home and ate. He ate a ton for lunch – most of the sandwich and then most of the sausage and crab from my kimbap and several pieces of strawberry. At about 1 I took him out in the carrier to walk the hallway to get him to sleep. This didn’t work. He was sleepy, but just wasn’t falling asleep. After 40 minutes he started practicing his screeching so we went home.
Sometime before 3 we tried again. He wanted to go actually outside this time, so we got bundled up. But after about 10 minutes it was clear it wasn’t happening that way either. So we returned home. Finally, at 3:30 I decided we would just head to Toys R Us with him in the backpack and see what happened. He fell asleep at 3:50 after just a couple blocks. I walked to Toys R Us, bought dry erase markers, and came home. I then woke him up at 4:38 when we got home. I helped him wake up by playing the new DVD we got today from his Teuni Teuni class. It actually has kids dancing in it, and that got his attention.
About a quarter after 5, August wanted to go looking for mama at the elevators. We had just gotten there when Carly called, saying she was stopping at the store. So we went back in and got our coats, and went down to the first floor to meet her down there. August decided to take his Pooh pillow with him. We spent a few minutes walking around the first floor and outside before Carly found us.
While Carly cooked some zucchini and more noodles, I did some clean up and got out the whiteboard so August could use the new markers. I then went and laid down for a little while since I hadn’t really had a break all day. This evening, August was really rolling with the ‘Becoming…’ joke, including things like (fish sound), “knock at the door”, and “turn off the light.” Did a lot more drawing and writing on the whiteboard. He is starting to read ‘is’, so we are working on simple sentences – the first sentence he read was “Vivi is funny.” When I said that was a sentence, he said “period” since he knows those come at the end of sentences. Oh, and earlier we were working on drawing Zs and question marks. He calls question marks Qs, so I was teaching him their proper name today.
I did a little reading to him while Carly prepared his bath, then she gave him a bath and took him into go to sleep around 8:30. That didn’t work though, so he read with me while Carly took a shower. They then Skyped with Cassie for a little while and August was ready for bed around 9:40.
A few random things:
When August wants to dump the matching blocks out of the bag, or take apart the CAR puzzle he will wave them wildly over his head. Kind of works.
When he didn’t go to sleep for a nap, I was tired and laid down on the play mat. He proceeded to crawl back and forth over me to get magnets from the door and take them back to the magnetic board, which he had on the ground on the other side of me. Made several trips.
He continues working on “counting by twos”. Today he said “2 4 6 8 10” several times, but he hasn’t yet combined it with his “12 14 16 18.”
New words/phrases: Zinnie do question (drawing a question mark), no sound on bottom makes ng (remembering what I had taught him on Monday), find mama elevator, 2 4 6 8 10
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Brick letters:
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Home Plus:
Home:
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Looking for mama:
Evening:
