Nine month activities have been pretty similar to the previous month. Still trying hard to follow Archer's lead. He loves the stimulation, and I feel like the days we don't do any focused learning activities feel longer.
Physical Development:
Just encouraging Archer to explore (like we could stop him)! He is into everything and doesn't want to be held back! I recently took him to a play place, and he crawled right over and started chasing all the big kids.
We have to be very careful to leave the shower door closed or he will crawl right in.
The local museum was great for providing different types of physical opportunities. He'd never really crawled down stairs or ramps and it was a lot of fun to watch him figure it out.
Enjoying the big piano.
He loves to play in Xanders room or dig through Xander's books.
Reading:
Reading is pretty similar. We do one set of English words flashed three times a day. He watches
Your Baby Can Read or
Meet the Sight Words maybe 3-6 times a week. We try to do one English
Little Reader Lesson several days a week. He really enjoys Little Reader now, so I'll keep encouraging it!
I've started getting out two of his
Meet the Sight Words Books a week to read to him, and sometimes get stuck reading them over and over. We also try to read lots of other books throughout the week.
Spanish:
We flash a set of Spanish words three times a day (our modified Doman method). We are doing one Spanish
Little Reader Lesson several days a week. He does not have as much patience for these as the English ones (probably because the words are less familiar), so we only do the multisensory parts, not the entire lessons. We read some of the
early readers I made, and I try to get out one
math early readers to read a few times a week. He also occasionally watches a Kids Start Spanish DVD.
Learning Shelves:
Oops, I forgot to take a picture of the shelves as a whole.
One shelf had our
cutting food. Archer isn't ready to "cut" the food with the knife, but he really enjoyed taking it apart and trying to put it back together. It was his first real experience with Velcro.
Our
Rainbow Color Cones got tons of use! Archer likes the texture. He really enjoyed taking them apart and trying to stack them. He thought it was great when we put them up on his cube so he could stand on the steps and play.
Another shelf had a
xylophone. He understood the concept, but had a little trouble with execution. He'd try to hit the notes with the stick, but usually hit them with his hand instead.
Another shelf had our
circle puzzle (the green one is missing, though). Archer liked carrying the pieces around and would try to put them on the base, but had trouble with orientation. Definitely something to grow into.
The last shelf had some little
plastic spools and a couple of empty containers. We practiced sorting them and naming the colors (I did the sorting and naming, he watched). He also really liked putting them into the containers and dumping them out.
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