Play Time with Sophie

Last Monday, Soph and I had another 30-ish minute one-on-one time during karate class.

We got out the peg board and she pushed pegs into each hole.

Then she used very careful hand movements to place a marble on top of each peg without disturbing any others.
She enjoyed this and was very focused with it.

Next, we removed the pegs and she placed the marbles on each hole in the board. This task is just a bit harder to avoid disturbing other marbles.

After our peg board play, we read our new Mo Willems books from the library. Sophie and Will (but especially Sophie) are huge fans of Mo and ALL of his books. Knuffle Bunny, the Pidgeon, Gerald & Piggie, etc. They are all good. These three were instant favorites for the week and we are on a mission to read just about everything he's written now. Will cracks up at the humor cause he really gets it. I think Sophie understands some of it, but is more drawn to the easily-read emotions that the illustrations present in the elephant & piggie series. I love them for both reasons. :-)

Next up, she requested this honey bee hive game. It's similar to a game I played as a child, except mine was just a simple cylinder with plastic sticks and marbles. Here, we were placing all the leaf-tipped sticks through the holes in the hive. Please excuse her mismatched ensemble. She came home from the sitter's in a pair of spare pants this day and I just didn't bother to change her.

Filling the hive with bees once the sticks are there to hold them in place.

Then we took turns pulling one stick out at a time. The real way to play is to avoid letting any bees fall down the center of the tree. The person with the fewest bees wins... Well, Sophie and I played the exact opposite since she always got so excited whenever she heard the sound of any bees falling.

Counting up all her bees at the end of the game. She "won". ;-)