Let me explain. With a 4 year old, or at least my 4 year old, I don't think there's any such thing as concentrating past about a 15 minute time span. Sure, there are things she can do for longer like watch TV, but frankly, TV turns her into an angry zombie even in small amounts. I wont start ranting but I'm just not much of a fan of television. But I digress, since we started breaking things up into short little lessons both of us are less stressed and happier. I keep reminding myself that she is only four and what she doesn't get this week just means that she probably isn't ready for it yet. We take lots of little breaks to throw in some laundry, do a few jumping jacks (that's her, not me at this stage of pregnancy), hang up said laundry, bake some muffins, you get it.
I am also constantly amazed at the things that she says. For instance a few weeks ago after her soccer class she pointed up to the sky and said,"There's a planet." She was absolutely right, it was a planet. How did she know? Somehow she learned that that brightest and largest star in the sky is often not a star but a planet. About a month ago she started sounding out the first letter to words like ,"Bb bb ball." We've been working on it ever since. I'm amazed that people who think that children need to be taught everything or they would never learn. Clearly a child's natural curiosity makes them no slackers in the learning department.
I found some new drawings she had done today and I thought they were just too cute not to share.
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