I guess you could say we're unschooling at this point. At least for today.

Today:

I brought out the sidewalk chalk.  Gabriel covered the porch and little path with vertical lines. Not scribbles, but actual vertical lines.  A nice developmental milestone, reached in the summer sunshine.

He looked at his Richard Scarry book.  Well, mostly he looked at the page with the trains.  He likes to read about trains quite a bit.  I did catch him looking at the back page where you count little things in a row.  He was pointing at each picture.  I am not sure if he was counting, though. 


He brought me an old favorite, a board book about colors with pictures by modern artists like Warhol and Jasper Johns.  We read that 3 or 4 times in a row.


We had lunch with my mother at this fantastic restaurant.  Gabriel lined up all his crayons to make a train.  When I tried to get him to color the kid's menu.....Corn is yellow, Can you color yellow?...He said, NO!  and proceeded to throw his crayons on the floor.

I spent a little time working on his balance.  He's a little behind in his gross motor development.  He has yet to stand on one foot without holding onto the wall and he's still not jumping up and down with both feet.  So we practiced balancing on one foot.

He made lots of messes today.  He pulled the clean folded towels out of the linen closet.  He pulled the clean folded laundry out of the basket and "dressed" the cat.  The cat is very patient with Gabriel.

 

Barefoot Books

Something new:  He's asking for books to be read "again, again" as soon as we finish.  Tonight, we read "How Big is a Pig?" three or four times in a row.  By the third time, he was able to fill in the blank at the end of some of the phrases.

Another new thing is that he understands and uses the word "too" correctly.  At nap time, he asked if "Mommy lay down, too? Please?"   He's also using the word another/other.  "Where other truck?  I get it."