Last week and this week is my eldest school's assessment week, so I am like all-over-the-place helping him in his revision due to challenge in language. I was major in Malay language during my school time, but now, our son is in Chinese school, a language totally unfamiliar to us (although by this time, I have picked up in Mandarin after three years). However, still, Mandarin in Science subject is very hard to grasp. All the words are so scientifically amazingly alien-y strange to me. Haha!
In busy times like this, when I needed to focus more on my eldest son, I let Jansen chose his favorite activity. It had been alot of artsy crafty, playfun, plus screentime kind of homeschool past few days.
Same time last year, he could not finish this one love board, only 20% due to lack of patience and lack of coordination hence lack of confidence and the fun of it. But this year, out of the blue moon, he said he wanted to do beads. We were surprised.
Witnessing him patiently chose the colours he wanted and slowly patiently arranged the beads one by one amazed us. He actually really enjoyed the whole process although it took him quite sometime. And he was able to focus without being distracted, meaning his attention span had increased tremendously. We could not be more proud of him.
He even had the patience to alter the colour halfway, let say he thought that this combination of colour was not what he preferred, he went to choose another colour, took out the beads one by one, and replaced with new colour. Academically, he is still learning writing small letters and our doctors told us to not feel the need to rush him. To give him alot of fun learning session, to enhance his cognitive and motor skills etc.
In one sitting, he did the above three designs. Simple. Solid. Nice to him. He felt happy as he accomplished them.
Admiring his own craft work
He was comparing his own plus praising mine, the ones I helped him past yearsss.
Another day
And another time, he chose to do perler beass again. I tried to give him a challenge to form some alphabets using the beads.