Alphabetics

Proud boy traced half the alphabet (and later the rest). The dry erase aspect of this weird plastic thing really seems to motivate my perfectionist children to try things they wouldn't otherwise.

Here he is

I've been putting off starting Aleifr's blog for so long (almost three years in fact) mostly because I wanted to make it a word press blog. So apparently I have given in and just added a third blogger blog. Why today in particular? Well lately Aleifr's determined disruption of M's academic efforts have changed from "look at me, look at me, PLAY with me" to more of an "it's MY turn, I want to do it" kind of vibe. So today I told him that if he would just let her finish the page she was working on then I would get him his own maths book. Boy, was that exciting! He polished off 8 pages of Singapore Earlybird Mathematics 1B in less than 10 minutes. Yes, that's right. Eight pages. I'm quite sure he would have done more if it weren't for his current handicaps making holding the pencil difficult. One hand is still tender from the juicer incident and the other got a splinter in it from the park yesterday. He's been favouring his right hand so much since hurting the left in the juicer that it was quite gratifying, if amusing, to see him holding the pencil in a left handed pincer grip. Poor lad. I hope both his hands are better soon.