Annive has mastered crawling forward on carpet, tile, and wood this week. It took her a little longer to figure it out on the tile and wood but she did it. Now she's chasing Bailey all over the place and trying to catch his tail. Bailey is in puppy heaven now that he has a playmate his own size.
She's also taken a few steps using her stroller/walker that Grandma and Grandpa gave her for Christmas. It's really cute watching her check on her baby. She leans over, looks at her baby, and pats her on the head. Then she'll push the stroller and take 2 or 3 steps.
This afternoon when I went to get Annive up from her afternoon nap, she was standing in her crib! I was so surprised, and I'm not sure how much napping went on this afternoon. So, Scott lowered her mattress this evening. It kind of makes me sad; I mean I'm thrilled that she's learning new things but sad that she's growing so quickly. Maybe sad isn't the right word but it's the best I can think of right now.
I'm creating learning stations for Annive to use during playtime. She will spend 10-15 minutes at each station, and I'll be talking with her about what she's doing. I'm trying to have stations that focus on a specific, developmentally appropriate skill. So far I've thought of the exersaucer (gross motor and hand/eye coordination), a library (hand/eye, fine motor), crawling maze (gross motor), play mat with hanging toys (reaching for toys, hand/eye), walking and standing with her stroller/walker (gross motor), pulling scarves and yarn from a wipes box (pincer grip, fine motor, hand/eye) and the outside garden (gross motor, hand/eye, science). This really makes me sound like an elementary school teacher! Any other ideas on activities or stations I could include for an almost 10 month old?
Friday, January 28, 2011
Crawling
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Ohmygosh you are the perfect mother! My kids never had stations. Well,maybe one: the plastic cups/wooden spoons/pie tins station on the bottom shelf of the kitchen cabinet (for the development of the skill of self-entertainment-while-mom-is-cooking.)
ReplyDeleteSimilar to the plastic cups/wooden spoons is just getting out pots and pans or buckets and different implements and see what different noises you can make by drumming on different ones (unless that's something you don't want her to learn). :)
ReplyDeleteJude and I also play with a lot of blocks. We practice taking them out of the bucket, putting them in the bucket, dumping them all out at once, stacking, and clapping them together. If they're different shapes and colors, that's a plus.