Until recently, Barrett hasn't really utilized his shape sorter in the correct way. He loves picking up the shapes and transferring them from hand to hand. He loves smacking them together to make sounds. Both are good development qualities for him to learn and practice, for sure. The last few weeks, however, we've been trying to get him to actually use the shapes by putting them in the correct slots. He is improving and doing a decent job but not quite there yet. I'm writing about it now because even though he usually doesn't get it right, I cannot get over how hard he tries.
He concentrates so hard to twist the shape to go in the slot. He knows what he's supposed to do, he just can't get it. It's completely fascinating. I will usually help him arrange it eventually and we make a big deal out of him getting it right. He loves that. He tries and tries and tries. After we've gone through them all, he picks it up to dump them back out again.
Bad mother alert but one of my favorite parts about sitting down to practice is when he gets frustrated with himself. He bangs the shapes on the top as if that will force it into the hole and then eventually he just throws the stupid thing. Ha! I shouldn't smile and laugh because it's not good that he throws things to release his frustration but it's just too cute.
He'll be doing it all on his own in no time!
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