Baby Reagan has been attending his weekly right-brain lesson with Heguru since 3 months ago.
What I've noticed from my 13 mths old boy in class now:
- Once he reached the classroom, he is always very eager to crawl to the name cards on the floor and pass it to the teacher. Not only his own name card, even the other cards that belong to his classmates who have yet to arrive. I've to constantly remind him to pick only the card with his name on it, and not touch the rest that do not belong to him.
- During image play, he doesn't want to close his eyes and hates it if I attempt to cover his eyes with my hands. However when teacher asked if they can see the image getting bigger, baby Reagan enjoys raising his hands together with me.
- Reagan has really good attention span when I flash the cards to him at home. However in class, he is able to focus probably like around 75% during the power flashcards session as he seems to show more interest in what the other babies are doing. He is a little "kaypo", therefore will get distracted easier in class. However he is able to focus 100% if the flashcards are related to alphabets or songs. My boy is beginning to be selective with the cards that are flashed to him.
- I do not know whether it is pure luck or good guessing, baby Reagan seems to get the right answer for most of the intuition and ESP games in class. Which reminds me that I should get him to pick 4 numbers for me lol!
- Reagan has lesser patience during the linking memory and peg memory segment. He is more interested in crawling to the front to grab the cards on the floor and most of the time I've to hold on to his legs to stop him from moving. I have stopped practicing peg memory with him after the teacher moved on to the new set of items, so now he is only familiar with the first 10 pictures. The school doesn't have a fix set of linking memory items and stories to practice at home. Therefore I probably need like a month time to prepare the materials for my own linking memory pictures so I can start to teach him at home.
- Reagan enjoys those activities with velcro stick on them. He giggles each time he hears the stripping sound made by the Velcro when he pull it out. Most of the time I laughed along with him.
- The sandpaper alphabets cards is one of Reagan's favorite too. The babies are encouraged to trace the sandpaper letters with their fingers. It is after this activity, Reagan begins to use his fingers to touch and trace each time he sees alphabets.
For eg. A month ago, I was at a bookstore alone with him and when I put him inside his stroller, he started whining for me to carry him, I randomly picked a children book from the shelf and let him hold it, so as to keep him quiet for a moment while I continued to search for my stuffs. It was then I noticed Reagan using his fingers to "rub" the letters 'ABC" which happened to be the title of the book I threw to him. I tried a few more other books or objects like cards, puzzle box, those with some alphabets printed boldly on top, and he did the same action. Then I realized that he has already recognized some of the alphabets when he was beginning to turn 12 months old. He sees them, recognize that they are alphabets and tries to trace the letters with his fingers, as what he did for the sandpaper activity at Heguru. It is also introduced by the Montessori method as babies are too young to hold a writing tool to practice writing the letters, therefore tracing sandpaper letters with their fingers is therefore a good way to start. If I do have the time, I like to D.I.Y some sandpaper tracing cards for baby Reagan too.
- Baby Reagan still do not dance or groove to music. However I know he loves the Hi-5 songs which the school played as goodbye song in class. At least now he attempts to wave and move his arms when the songs are sang and danced in class. And that's because I play the same song and dance for him at home haha!
Photos that I took of him in class last week.
Baby Reagan playing with his name card once he reached the class.
As usual, he attempted to trace the alphabets letters printed on his cards with his fingers.
Waiting for the lesson to begin.
Dear baby boy, you're getting bigger and heavier, mummy can't carry you for long anymore. You've to learn to walk by yourself soon, mummy will practice with you and I've faith that you will succeed very soon!
Dear baby boy, you're getting bigger and heavier, mummy can't carry you for long anymore. You've to learn to walk by yourself soon, mummy will practice with you and I've faith that you will succeed very soon!
