MIlestone: 5-word sentences, Playschool and Kindergarten
Roller coaster ride. That is a brief description of how our, or rather, my, past two weeks felt. An emo one. hahaha. Anyway,a slight developmental delay was diagnosed, and so now, as parents - what are our options? Dear Godma called and gave some good sound advice. We noticed that Little Boy (LB) is still progressing in his speech development.
In fact, he just crossed a milestone in speaking 5-worded sentences two days before the speech theraphy assessment. I heard it as I was filing in the questionaire: Does he speak more than 4 words in a sentence? Then suddenly I heard a happy voice cry out, It's the cat in the hat," when he saw the Dr Seuss book. Then shortly after, Oh look, it's a frog!" calling attention to a children's programme playing on DVD. Following that, we started hearing many more little sentences, Oh Look it's a truck. Or Oh look, it's a choo-choo train -- whenever we are in the car and passes by a train track nearby, or a big vehicle.
Anyway, we have now made a decision to intentionally give him more social exposure brought him to playschool for the past two weeks. At home, we are reading daily to him, and he has learnt to call out, Storytime! not only at bedtime, but also during the day.
His first day of preschool was last Thursday. The teachers had a considerate approach with children. It's a Montessori programme with a very small ratio of students per teacher. They planned it so that he was given a foretaste of his classes from his first playschool session. He enjoyed it.
On the first day of kindy, he was scheduled to only attend for 2 hours to help acclimatise his being away from parents. He was rather reluctant to leave when we came to fetch him. One Friday, he immediately headed for the slides after school, and had fun with two other boys, taking their turns playing. We ended up being one of the last few to leave.
Today will the his first full week of school. I hope he will enjoy his time there every day filled with new explorations and experiences.
Last Sunday, we almost missed a chance of fun for Little Boy. I was so tired having only 4 to 5 hour rest nights with all the emo waves. Then we got an invite to join another family for park Sun late afternoon. The idea of LB feeding the deers got us off our backs. And that Sunday, he was so excited. He learnt the how to run on the field and kick a ball at the park in a group situation. Ride on his balance bike. Feed the fishes in the pond. Run up and down the elaborate slides. Climbed up the vertical stairs by himself (with the dad right behind him). Perhaps, it was just a kind wake-up call to break out of the comfort of living "far from the madding crowd" to live more intentionally in a wider social circle? Our reward? His laughter and excitement. As we boarded the car to leave, Little Boy said, Thank you very much.
In fact, he just crossed a milestone in speaking 5-worded sentences two days before the speech theraphy assessment. I heard it as I was filing in the questionaire: Does he speak more than 4 words in a sentence? Then suddenly I heard a happy voice cry out, It's the cat in the hat," when he saw the Dr Seuss book. Then shortly after, Oh look, it's a frog!" calling attention to a children's programme playing on DVD. Following that, we started hearing many more little sentences, Oh Look it's a truck. Or Oh look, it's a choo-choo train -- whenever we are in the car and passes by a train track nearby, or a big vehicle.
Anyway, we have now made a decision to intentionally give him more social exposure brought him to playschool for the past two weeks. At home, we are reading daily to him, and he has learnt to call out, Storytime! not only at bedtime, but also during the day.
His first day of preschool was last Thursday. The teachers had a considerate approach with children. It's a Montessori programme with a very small ratio of students per teacher. They planned it so that he was given a foretaste of his classes from his first playschool session. He enjoyed it.
On the first day of kindy, he was scheduled to only attend for 2 hours to help acclimatise his being away from parents. He was rather reluctant to leave when we came to fetch him. One Friday, he immediately headed for the slides after school, and had fun with two other boys, taking their turns playing. We ended up being one of the last few to leave.
Today will the his first full week of school. I hope he will enjoy his time there every day filled with new explorations and experiences.
Last Sunday, we almost missed a chance of fun for Little Boy. I was so tired having only 4 to 5 hour rest nights with all the emo waves. Then we got an invite to join another family for park Sun late afternoon. The idea of LB feeding the deers got us off our backs. And that Sunday, he was so excited. He learnt the how to run on the field and kick a ball at the park in a group situation. Ride on his balance bike. Feed the fishes in the pond. Run up and down the elaborate slides. Climbed up the vertical stairs by himself (with the dad right behind him). Perhaps, it was just a kind wake-up call to break out of the comfort of living "far from the madding crowd" to live more intentionally in a wider social circle? Our reward? His laughter and excitement. As we boarded the car to leave, Little Boy said, Thank you very much.
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