our 2nd term @ the under 3s class & a couple of W words

1st day back at school

the bean's under 3s class has started again and it was amusing to see her orientate herself to the school and the other children. because of the break i think she was quite excited to be back and kept looking at everything and everyone, not being able to keep still for too long. i think most of the other mothers found their children behaving the same way. it will probably take another week or 2 for them to settle down again.

anyhow, it is nice to see the bean being more vocal too - even when the directress wasn't addressing her!

during the sing-along session, one of the songs we regularly sing is when we pick a colour from the child's outfit and then sing about it. today, it so happened that there were quite a few children wearing blue. when the directress asked a second child in blue if we should sing about "blue", the bean nodded enthusiastically. then when the directress asked a third child if we could sing about his blue polo t-shirt, the bean actually said, "no", to the twitters of the other mothers who were sitting nearby. i guess by that point the bean had tired of the colour. (the boy who was asked didn't say a word.)


"whale!"*

here are a few more words that the bean would really say out loud (most of her other words are still gibberish sounding):
- whale (when she sees her soft-soled shoes with the whale motif or plastic whale figurine)
- wheel (when she sees a picture of anything that resembles one - even pinwheels)
- watch (it sounds more like "wak")

she can identify a few of the alphabet letters and some of the numbers. we are slowly working on number concepts, counting and the alphabet of course, but no pressure. most of the time it is the bean who points out the letters and numbers to me and asks me for their name. it was this regular activity of hers that has gotten me to work on introducing the alphabet and numbers more formally to her.

* btw, the bean doesn't say the letter "w" yet