Building Blocks #3 is underway...

The week of April 14, 2015 we have began Building Blocks/Session #3. Monday began with a visit to a new family with a 4 year old boy. Our focus is to create stategies for the family to assist this child and his brother in Grade 2 to have better literacy and numeracy skills. The session went very well with the highlight being a shape game, that involved sorting, oral language, gross and fine motor skills, shape recognition and repetition and total 4 year old engagement. I left the Shape/ Bean Bag game at his home. His mother texted me to let me know he was sharing his game with his cousin. This little guy will have circle, square and triangle mastered in no time. My goal is to immerse this child in language he will be hearing in the Kindergarten classroom next year. He has lots of energy and my lessons with this family will need to be tailored to meet that need. Tuesday brought our Group at the Lougheed Library. Another unbelievable day! We had three of our original families come, (with 4 children), and four brand new families (with 5 children.) We have a lovely family from El Salvador joining us. This mother would love us to assist with her Kindergarten aged child, but he attends school on our Group day and I do not have any spots left in my timetable. Thus the need for this program is more than we can supply. Wednesday we gathered at the Community Hall for the Ladies Day. Building Blocks ran a program from 1:00-2:00. We have two families that had been there before, our El Salvador family joined us with the 2 and 5 yr old. And a new family with a beautiful little 3 year old named Maria. The highlight of day was Lena reading Brown Bear Brown Bear with me. And David doing the Dickie Birds poem out loud.