Let Me Count the Ways...

Count the ways that Hannah is learning while she puts this puzzle together...

1) She is working on fine motor skills, manipulating that piece in her fingers.

2) She is working on visual discrimination, with colors, shapes and sizes.

3) She is working on reasoning skills, straight pieces on the sides and colors together.

4) She is using her listening skills to listen to directions when she gets stuck.

5) She is working on focus and patience, as this will take a while for her.

The end result is one beaming little girl with her proud papa!!!

This is one of the things I love about homeschooling. We
can do whatever works for us in each new situation.


With my older children I did not include puzzle making as part of their curriculum, because they loved it and did it naturally. Hannah this is added in about once a week as part of her school, because it is hard for her, she will not do it naturally. But she is getting better all the time and she picked this harder puzzle today and did it all by herself.

We are so very proud of how far she has come!! It is not a matter of whether she can meet some standards out of a book, but whether she is progressing at her very own pace!!!