Various things need to be done...capturing it here....both for posterity and as a reminder to self on what needs to be done....
ALYSSA
- Once she had settled down into the infant care environment, she was generally a happy baby and easy baby to handle.
- She can express herself readily and usually only cries when she is hungry, sleepy, tired or upset over something.
- She's also developed pretty quickly over the last week and can now crawl rather quickly on her tummy. She's also started to want to climb and is pretty much an avid explorer.
- To work on:
- getting her to take her solids (including porridge, and proteins)
- exposing her to more books, music and creative toys.
- She's grown more confident and adept in her socio-emotional aspects.
- Her spoken language and communication skills (pure talking) seems advanced for her age. Her teacher commented that it feels like she is talking to a young adult rather than a roughly 3-year-old child. Nadya also easily voices her thoughts and does not hesitate to convey her feelings to the teacher.
- She does have several bad habits that she's picked up. Singlish is one, nagging and scolding others is another. She recently likes to wag/point her finger at others, act assertive and badass and say things like "I tell you ah, you better don't do this!" or "Listen to me! Don't touch that thing!". She did this to random kids in a shopping mall, much to my horror and embarrassment.
- She apparently loves her enrichment classes, which are ballet and gym at the moment.
- She can tell you when she needs to poo but hasn't started telling us when she needs to pee. This is quite the opposite from most kids, according to her teacher.
- She knows the sound a letter makes and can recognise the character the letter is associated with, but sometimes cannot identify what that letter itself is. Eg. if you show her "G", she knows it stands for "Golden Girl" and makes the sound "guh" but sometimes can't tell you that it is the letter "G". (The school uses the Letterland concept to teach the kids.)
- To work on:
- toilet-training her (we're halfway through on this...jiayou!)
- preparing her for the transition to using a cup for her afternoon milk when September comes
- preparing her to brush her teeth in school when September comes
- numeracy
- recognition of alphabets
- correcting her use of Singlish
- correcting her impolite ways of "nagging/scolding" people
- exposing her to more Mandarin
- building up her social interaction skills
Hmm...seems alot...
How to tackle these issues...can't be done one at a time...some need to be managed concurrently....
Thoughts......
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