Cookies and Crayons

This year in Kindermusik we have talked a lot about doing things around the house. One of the songs is about cleaning the house. At the beginning of the year we sang “Dust Dust Dust” but lately we sing “Scrub Scrub Scrub.” Dougie always enjoys singing it in Kindermusik and scrubbing the walls there.

Today, Dougie found a soft book and started using it to scrub my desk. I sang the song for him while he was doing it and he kept saying “aga” (again). I decided to get him a sponge so he could clean properly. He loved it. We sang and scrubbed for almost 20 minutes.

We had Dougie’s speech evaluated several weeks ago and the therapist asked if he could do several activities like sorting, matching, etc. It dawned on us that we had never asked him to do any of those things. So, we’ve decided to start trying to do a few more structured activities with him in addition to his reading time and the ever important play time.

Today was our first activity and we worked on sorting.

The Setup

Sorting

As you may be able to tell from the pictures, sorting is not currently Dougie’s strength. He loved to put the little pompoms in the cups but he didn’t really care which ones they went in. By the end, he was putting all the blue ones together but he never took to the brown or yellow. We plan to try again tomorrow at a different time of day and perhaps with some different colors.