Sorting cum threading

I gave a tub of buttons of different shapes and colours to Balqis.and her first task was to sort them according to different shapes. She successfully did just that. Her second task was to sort it according to the different colours. She was a bit confused probably because some of the buttons come in different shades of a particular colour. Eg. Light, dark and also translucent sort of red. I think its time I introduce her to family of colours.
She did some threading with the buttons too and I am very happy that her fine motor skills is getting much better now. She could thread through the small holes of the buttons.

Sorting game

I created this sorting activity for Ilyasak about two years ago with the thought of reusing it again for Balqis. It did come to a good use and efforts to make it durable (laminated the pieces) did pay off too. Since those learning resources were ready to be used, Balqis was introduced to this activity much earlier. She was introduced to halves, wholes and quarters (the pieces were not exact quarters though) not the terms though as I figured it will be too much if I were to introduce her the proper terms. I was just as happy if she could just sort out the pieces accurately which she did after the 2nd attempt. However, given her short attention span, she had difficulty completing the task. Nevertheless, I am happy with her achievement thus far.

Giant puzzles

Balqis had more practice on puzzles and seems to have better interaction on giant floor puzzles. It is probably due to the large size which give her more ease in the fittings. She required more help from me on her first attempt on this particular giant puzzle on numbers. She got better at it during her second attempt on the same piece. She was able to study each piece carefully looking at the colours and illustration of each individual piece to find their exact fit. I am hoping to find more of such puzzles to let her practice.

Attempting puzzles

I took out some of Ilyasak's older puzzles which was shelved for quite some time to let Balqis attempt it. Surprisingly she was able to complete 3-5 pieces puzzle with minimal help from me. I had to give hints along the way though like asking her to rotate to get d exact fit and asking her to observe d colours and design of the individual piece to get d correct match up. I am real happy over her progress. I will dig more puzzles for her then.

Maybe I should get Ilyasak to start on doing puzzles again. This boy is simply unique as he does not seem to show interest in d usual typical activities or items which children his age enjoy. For instance, he needs to be coaxed to draw or colour a simple figure or two. He only like vehicles, wheels, gears and those items if that nature. It kind of worrying but I guess each individual child is unique in his or her own way.

Puzzles

I tried giving Balqis some of the simple puzzles from our collection. Basically from the time I started Ilyasak on them. She was able to complete with minimal help from me. I only had to teach her that she needs to rotate, observe the pictures, colours or the cutting of the puzzle pieces to get the correct fitting to the entire puzzle.
I will definitely introduce more puzzles to her in the future.

Maybe I should get Ilyasak to start on doing puzzles again. This boy is simply unique as he does not seem to show interest in the usual typical activities or items which children his age enjoy. For instance, he needs to be coaxed to draw or colour a simple figure or two. He only like vehicles, wheels, gears and those items of that nature. Its kind of worrying but I guess each individual child is unique in his or her own way.