Packing, planning, but doing the little/big things too.
Today was mostly a day filled with packing and prepping for our big move this week, and also planning a fun field trip for Gavin tomorrow. I still found the time to read with him, make him a little house out of sheets and chairs, and do our daily yoga with an extra meditation. During the packing, Gavin found good ways to entertain himself with what I had available to him. He watched his favorite program on T.V. called "Travel with Kids", and before that he practiced his math skills on www.sheppardsoftware.com. It's a website filled with fun and free ways for kids to practice anything; math, geography, science, language arts, you name it.
Gavin loves his "Angry Birds Space" game. It's normally a game for more than one player, but if I am busy Gavin takes it out and chooses the cards he wants to see how well he can build the structure he wants to knock over. It takes a lot of patience, and the way the blocks are built don't always hold up. For even the most skilled and careful adult they will fall, so you have to improvise and flatten some out to actually get whats in the picture to stand. I think Gavin does a pretty good job of it.
Another fun activity I like to have at Gavin's disposal is his rice center. It's basically a sand box with rice instead of sand. I have seen this done with other food things like beans. The idea is pretty much to have a sand box that makes less of a mess. I like to give Gavin things to hide in there, like stones or toy dinosaur fossils, this ways he can pretend to be a little archaeologist. His idea was to use his toy rake to make an oval track and push toy cars through it as if they were on rough terrain. I think that's his favorite.
This evening Gavin and his dad made their usual trip outside to go catch some fireflies. Upon their return they came back not only with a jar of twinkling fireflies, but oak seeds that resemble little helicopters, and pieces of mica mineral. Gavin and his dad quickly added them to Gavin's Field Journal, and labeled their finds. I look forward to seeing how much we have in this journal by the end of the summer.
I am not prone to giving Gavin sweets, it's actually very rare, if at all, unless we are at a birthday party. However, I was feeling nostalgic and missing my grandmother's treats, so Gavin and I made little meringues. In Spanish we call them "meringuitos". Gavin loves to help me in the kitchen, and when he sees me cooking he runs to get his little chair that he calls his "Master Chef Chair" and stands on it beside me to see what he can do to help. He was a great assistant and will be more than welcome to have some meringue tomorrow after his lunch during our field trip.
Gavin loves his "Angry Birds Space" game. It's normally a game for more than one player, but if I am busy Gavin takes it out and chooses the cards he wants to see how well he can build the structure he wants to knock over. It takes a lot of patience, and the way the blocks are built don't always hold up. For even the most skilled and careful adult they will fall, so you have to improvise and flatten some out to actually get whats in the picture to stand. I think Gavin does a pretty good job of it.
This evening Gavin and his dad made their usual trip outside to go catch some fireflies. Upon their return they came back not only with a jar of twinkling fireflies, but oak seeds that resemble little helicopters, and pieces of mica mineral. Gavin and his dad quickly added them to Gavin's Field Journal, and labeled their finds. I look forward to seeing how much we have in this journal by the end of the summer. 
I am not prone to giving Gavin sweets, it's actually very rare, if at all, unless we are at a birthday party. However, I was feeling nostalgic and missing my grandmother's treats, so Gavin and I made little meringues. In Spanish we call them "meringuitos". Gavin loves to help me in the kitchen, and when he sees me cooking he runs to get his little chair that he calls his "Master Chef Chair" and stands on it beside me to see what he can do to help. He was a great assistant and will be more than welcome to have some meringue tomorrow after his lunch during our field trip.
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