Gymboree Class Stage 5 : 1 of 4

Today was an exciting day for Ozzy & I. We enrolled for a 4 week session at the Gymboree. We had a fun time while learning along the way.

The activities involving pretending to be mail carriers provided incredibly rich opportunities to build your child's thinking, language and social skills. His advanced motor skills also helped her to act out increasingly elaborate pretend scenarios. -Gymboree in Partnership with www.zerotothree.org

My Ozzy learned:

• Mail Box Drop - climbing skills as well as cognitive skills.
• Playing at the "Post Office" - encourage the child to try out different roles as they pretend to process big & small packages for delivery. It also encouraged social interaction.
• Pretending to be mail carriers - develops the child's growing creativity and ability to expand on ideas like pretending to give a "letter" to Gymbo.

All in all it was a worthwhile 1 hour session. Ozzy showed improvement in his social skills. During last week's trial class he was more quiet and into playing alone, now he would go up to his classmates and at one point even gave a girl classmate a big hug!

Although he still has very much to improve on. When it comes to gathering round in a circle to sing songs and dance, he would just look. I would have to prod him on so that he would do the actions too.

But when it comes to physical activities he has no problems at all! He would climb, jump and slide like the teacher asked. I can't wait for next week's class! Today, I was not able to take pictures - but promise (chi) I would next week!^_^

After a tiring class we headed off to the mall to have our lunch and some grocery shopping. I was thinking of looking for nice car covers since Whitey (our car) always gets dirty when parked outside because he is under a tree.

Owwww..P.S. while we were having lunch,the Jollibee Mascot was there for a birthday party! Ozzy was scared! lolz. I thought he loved the Bee! I guess seeing him move was a bit different for him.

How was your Saturday?

Ciao!!