DJ started out his “school” this week by having me help him put this world puzzle together that he got for his birthday. While he has mastered the 12 piece wooden Melissa & Doug jigsaw puzzles, a puzzle with this many pieces and such a complex picture is still beyond him. I simplified the task by stacking the pieces into 7 piles corresponding to each continent. We started with Antarctica and worked our way clockwise around the map. When the…
DJ and I went to a puppet show of the Very Hungry Caterpillar this week. The puppeteers were from Nova Scotia so when we came home, we pulled out the World Map puzzle to see where Nova Scotia is. DJ’s grandparents recently went to San Diego for the winter so I showed him where we live, where San Diego is and where Nova Scotia is. I had told him it would take two days to drive to San Diego, which…
DJ received this My Very First Games – First Orchard Game by Haba for his 2nd birthday a year ago. It said on the box 2+ but DJ wasn’t really ready for it last year. He didn’t understand taking turns and the goal of the game was lost on him because he WANTED the crow to eat the fruit and couldn’t be bothered with rolling the die. He played with it for a bit and then ignored it for a…
This was a short week with the Thanksgiving holiday. DJ selected the Brown Stair and Pink Tower together. Ever since I showed him examples on the internet he’s been very interested in building them himself. First he rebuilt the long chain that he had done before. He did this one from memory but skipped one if the blocks, so he just added it to the end. The first time he built this he had been disappointed that I didn’t take…