Feb. 7, 2008 - Kaylah's learning
Kaylah never really went to regular school. She went to Mommy's Morning Out, a program held at a near-by preschool, last year two mornings a week. She liked it. But mostly what she knows about school she learned from Ariella. Ariella plays school with her and that's how she knows of recess, lunch time, homework, the principal's office, and raising your hand to speak.
Kaylah has her own binder.In it though are dot to dot pictures, coloring pages, and blank art paper. It's mostly to make her feel big like Ariella. In the beginning, she wanted to do her schoolwork too. I even came up with a movable chest of drawers that I filled with "school" stuff for her. It has a bag of clay, lacing beads, blank paper, crayons, sentence puzzles, rubber stamps and ink pads, picture flash cards, and some workbooks that specialize in preschool and kindergarten skills. When she wants to do schoolwork with Ariella she knows to go to these drawers and find something.
But for the most part, Kaylah plays. She plays well with the babies although sometimes can get alittle rough with them. She plays great with Ariella too. Best of all, she can play wonderfully by herself. Kaylah has no problem going upstairs, pulling out the dress up box and playing dress up for quite some time. She can become engrossed in an art project or lay down on the rug with her basket of Little People stuff and play while I make dinner or put in a load of laundry. Kaylah is a wonderful player and I would hate to ruin that trait of her's by demanding her to sit down and learn phonics.
Sooner or later, she'll learn it, but with Kaylah, it's so much easier to let her learn something when she wants to learn it rather than teach it and her not learn a thing!
Below: Kaylah at TLC and below that she's sewing clothes onto her sock puppet.
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