Genevieve has been really into pretend play this week. We've been dressing up as a cowgirl fairy and played puppets, which also have been fairy farm animals. We read Eating the Alphabet and have played with our pretend foods. She's used her dice to help dad and mom play dungeons and dragons. She also used her building tools and then used her doctor tools to help her brother get ready for his doctor appointment. We also added our M animals, such as moose, mice, and monkeys, to our animal book and pretended to be a monkey. Genevieve has been interested in sorting and actually lined up some of her figurines on her own.
Tuesday we had a very busy and exciting day. We played doctor again in the morning before Tobias's doctor appointment. We read a lot of books with animals, both in storytime and on our own. The Tiny Little Fly was an entertaining tale with a few animals bothered by a fly. Genevieve has been loving The Mixed Up Chameleon so it was great that we heard that in storytime. We also heard the Seals on the Bus, an animal take on the Wheels on the Bus which is one of Genevieve's favorite songs. We also read Animalia and The Water Hole, which are beautifully illustrated and written by Graeme Base. His illustrations often include hidden puzzles and should be enjoyed by both kids and adults. Animalia was a fun review of animals of the alphabet, which compliments her book well and The Water Hole both covers numbers, animals of different biomes, and suggests the effects of extreme weather on habitats. Genevieve also picked a nonfiction book about big cats of the world.
After Tobias's doctor appointment, we went to a special event held by the library. A local animal rescue center brought some animals. There was an alligator, a great horned owl, a kinkajou, a striped skunk and an African crested porcupine. The kids heard about the dangers of trying to raise wild animals in your home and watched the different animals walk. My little scientist was also using her magnifying glass to investigate. Additionally, Genevieve was playing with the clock puzzle and continued her sorting phase by sorting the pieces by color. We also talked about the minute hand and hour hand, and she enjoyed discovering that the clock also has a face.
She started Wednesday with grandma playing the "bedtime game." We continued to pretend while we were at dance, taking a "trip to the beach." We flew as butterflies, played with beach balls, splashed in the water and hopped as frogs through different dance poses. We practiced our balance with some flamingo poses too. Genevieve continued to impress her coach with her gymnastics skills, both on the balance beam and with forward rolls.She added N and O animals to her book. There are few N animals so we added a newt, but we had fun with owls, ocelots, orangutans and opossums. She didn't want to pretend to be them as she was tired but we did talk about the way they move. We looked at A Sunday Afternoon on La Grande Jatte and created our own dot artwork after a nap. We also exchanged and sorted our allowance money.
Genevieve wanted to pretend more on Thursday. She was caring for her baby doll at home and then decided Pete the Cat was her toddler. She gave him a shoulder ride to the splash park and pushed him in the swings at the park. When we got home, we read One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. I had made some construction paper rhyming fish, so she used her magnetic wand to pretend to fish for them. We matched them by color and rhyming words, laying them out and then mixing them up again for another round. We also sorted some colorful caps into our train cars - counting one cap in the first car, 2 in the second and so forth. She then had some fun sorting them by color and sorting her colorful pasta by shape.
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