I’ve been trying as often as I can to have the boys sit at the table and do a little “academic” work, we call it ‘table time’. For 6 year old Cutie Pie we’ve been doing things like writing a sentence, tracing words, creating specific objects with playdough…fine motor things basically. For 4 year old Sweet Pea we are doing things like coloring, tracing, attempting mazes, play dough play and pouring practice.
The other day I found the lower case letter tiles I picked up a year or so ago. I quickly looked up a pin I remembered and printed out some word tile cards and laid them on the table.
Cutie Pie really didn’t want to do table time that day because he had just gotten his LEGOs out, but he came anyway when I said it was something we hadn’t done before.
He had fun searching for letters to build his words, but was itching to get down. After coercing him into writing a sentence for me I let him go play, but as he was going away from the table he said ‘next time lets use word families!’
Hubby overheard and picked out some tiles, built some word families and somehow enticed Cutie Pie to come back. He sat there for about 20 minutes making words with us! (He looks much more happy, don’t you think?)
I’m pleasantly surprised when Cutie Pie suggests doing things that to me are more ‘academic’ than I think he’s interested in doing! I only wish I could figure out when he’s in the mood for something like that so I can piggy back on it before it happens!
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