Friday 31 July 2009

Great ideas for encouraging communication

Drawing with chalk outside

You will need:

  • Lots of different coloured chalk
  • Outdoor drawing area - could be a cement pavement or concrete in the garden.
What to do:
  1. Give your child two or three colours for them to choose from. This helps them identify the colours and their names.
  2. They can draw shapes, this helps with hand skills and vocabulary to identify the shapes.
  3. Draw a square for them and help them to create a picture of a family member inside. This helps with language structure, increasing vocabulary, hand skills and making choices.
  4. When drawing a face or picture of a family member, ask your child to try and use at least three colours when drawing the family portraits. Say ‘what colour for the eyes', ‘what colour for the nose' what colour for the mouth' and repeat this back to the child.
  5. Let the child draw a picture and you have to guess what or who it is. This helps with narrative skills and vocabulary used to describe the picture.
  6. Write the name or help your child to write who it is.
  7. Invite some friends and family to see the pictures and guess who it is.
  8. Use water to make the picture disappear, asks the child to describe what was there before. This helps with memory and narrative.
Courtesy http://www.ican.org.uk/

Saturday 20 June 2009

This is for my Sunny

The Alchemy of Love
By Jalal-al-Din Rumi

You come to us
From another world

From beyond the stars
And void of space.
Transcendent, Pure,
Of unimaginable beauty,
Bringing with you
The essence of love

You transform all
Who are touched by you.
Mundane concerns,
Troubles and sorrows
Dissolve in your presence,
Bringing joy
To ruler and ruled
To peasant and king

You bewilder us
With your grace.
All evils
Transform into
Goodness.

You are the master alchemist.

You light the fire of love
In earth and sky
In heart and soul
Of every being.

Through your loving
Existence and nonexistence merge.
All opposites unite.
All that is profane
Becomes sacred again.

Mother's day





Thats the card 4 years old son for me on this mother's day at his pre-school.
When I open this card it says "I LUV YOU"
Such a cute creativity!!! I love those li'l green finger-top prints.

Creativity at its cutest form :)