JCrakers
25-02-2016, 01:23 PM
I have 5 LJ's to do but 1 in particular is always more difficult than the others and I feel quite bad sending it home sometimes as its quite sparse with pictures.
The problem I have is I just don't get time to see the child in different scenarios especially PD (physical side of things). Every Thursday we have the same routine so catching her doing something different is quite hard. I found her 2yr check quite difficult in PD. I can see that she is developing well so don't have any worries.
Mindee is now 29m and attends 8am-6pm on Thursdays only. She arrives at 8am with two older siblings, they usually sit with pens/scissors or sometimes finish off toast or muffin that she's bought with her. I'm quite busy in this half an hour. We leave the house at 8.30am, go to school and then onto town. We arrive at coffee shop at 9.20am where we have a drink/rest for 15-20mins before heading off to toddler group.
Toddler group 10-11am, where we sing, instruments, listen to a book, drinks, crafts. So a good range of things to do. I've got pictures of her doing various things here. (when I remember to take my camera :rolleyes:)
Then we arrive back at 12pm, have lunch (she is quite slow at eating). After lunch is sleep time until 2.30/45. Then onto school at 3pm-3.45pm, then snack/drink. As it's been cold the children have been inside so lots of role play, pretend schools, colouring. When they go outside I'm usually making tea, watching from the window with half an eye...quite busy so are watching if she's safe rather than what she's actually achieving.
I came to do her 2yr check and realised I don't know if she can walk up/downstairs or catch a ball, I don't know if she can stand on one leg momentarily etc, etc. Her next steps have shown I need to look at these things but without going to find some stairs and say 'Climb these' I don't get enough opportunities to observe.
All the other 4 children I have longer/more days so I seem to know them better. It seems that 1 day a week just isn't quite enough time to find out everything.
Does anyone else find this or should I have spent more time changing my Thurs routine? (Problem is, my 3yr old mindee loves his Thursday mornings which is why I've never changed the routine. He attends mon-thurs so has a good range of park visits so he likes his toddler group and warm milk etc.)
The problem I have is I just don't get time to see the child in different scenarios especially PD (physical side of things). Every Thursday we have the same routine so catching her doing something different is quite hard. I found her 2yr check quite difficult in PD. I can see that she is developing well so don't have any worries.
Mindee is now 29m and attends 8am-6pm on Thursdays only. She arrives at 8am with two older siblings, they usually sit with pens/scissors or sometimes finish off toast or muffin that she's bought with her. I'm quite busy in this half an hour. We leave the house at 8.30am, go to school and then onto town. We arrive at coffee shop at 9.20am where we have a drink/rest for 15-20mins before heading off to toddler group.
Toddler group 10-11am, where we sing, instruments, listen to a book, drinks, crafts. So a good range of things to do. I've got pictures of her doing various things here. (when I remember to take my camera :rolleyes:)
Then we arrive back at 12pm, have lunch (she is quite slow at eating). After lunch is sleep time until 2.30/45. Then onto school at 3pm-3.45pm, then snack/drink. As it's been cold the children have been inside so lots of role play, pretend schools, colouring. When they go outside I'm usually making tea, watching from the window with half an eye...quite busy so are watching if she's safe rather than what she's actually achieving.
I came to do her 2yr check and realised I don't know if she can walk up/downstairs or catch a ball, I don't know if she can stand on one leg momentarily etc, etc. Her next steps have shown I need to look at these things but without going to find some stairs and say 'Climb these' I don't get enough opportunities to observe.
All the other 4 children I have longer/more days so I seem to know them better. It seems that 1 day a week just isn't quite enough time to find out everything.
Does anyone else find this or should I have spent more time changing my Thurs routine? (Problem is, my 3yr old mindee loves his Thursday mornings which is why I've never changed the routine. He attends mon-thurs so has a good range of park visits so he likes his toddler group and warm milk etc.)