Learning at home

Since moving to Doha, and probably because I no longer work full time, I have been able to focus more time and energy into the boys' education.  For Arran that means lots of playing with things and talking about letters, colours, numbers and shapes that may relate to the thing we are playing with.  This morning it was, colours, shapes and counting how many shapes we needed.  Toy selection here is Doha isn't fabulous, but our local Toys R Us does have a good supply of Melissa & Doug wooden toys and puzzles.  A while ago I bought a shapes one in which we use 4 shapes to create pictures.  Arran really enjoys working on this one, and now has making the pictures aced, so we have been working on naming all the shapes as he builds the picture, counting how many of each shape we need to make the picture and what colour the shapes are that we need.  We also did some work on the alphabet song and pointing to each letter as we sing it.  Needless to say mummy is very proud of her gorgeous, little 3 year-old!  That's right Arran is 3.  He turned 3 on March 18.  We had lots of celebrations and we were in England at the time.  Where does the time go...