Helen Doron Baby Days

We took part in the so-called baby days at Helen Doron Language School. During the summer holidays (in July and August) a one-week intensive course (in both months) is organised by the school not to waste the whole summer.

This month we participated in the first 3 days only, as our native nanny comes twice a week now (Thursday and Friday mornings). I wouldn't like to miss her. The baby days are different from the usual course. The days are organised around a topic or more (because of the revision). There were two moms and their little ones from our group and 5 ohter kids (aged about 1,5-2). The 9-o'clock start was a little rough but we made it.

First day:

The colours and shapes were introduced (or for the bigger kids), practised during the lesson. So all the toys and games were played focusing on the basic colours: red, blue, green, yellow, white, and much to my surprise, purple and orange.
There were colourful flags, a new colour song (Colours for everyone) and of course, the old songs as well (Waving song, Uppety song just to mention one or two). The colourful balls also came out of the box, much to E.'s delight, not to mention the building blocks (together with the Stacking song), though E. can't really build yet, but destroy.

I would like to emphasise one of the activities that E. liked the most and I'm planning to make it for her. Matching colours activity: pieces of coloured paper are cut, laminated and a piece of velcro is stuck on the back. Kids need to stick the right colours to their places on a sheet of paper where the colours are signed. I'll attach a photo to the home-made tools post as soon as I made it.

Second day:

The colours and shapes were revised a little bit (the best game was colouring shapes with baby paint or crayons - see the picture above - that we could take home) and then means of transport were introduced: cars, trucks, buses, tractors, airplanes, wagon, bicycle (I didn't really understand why we didn't use bike instead of bicycle or plane instead of airplane)
Again there were a lot of moving around (with paper plates that have cars, trucks or buses on them - we were imitating driving them)

Third day:

D. took E. to the lesson where, apart from the previous days revisions (shapes, colours, transport), there were some coloured paper planes to fly through a ring and numbers were covered as well (counting pegs etc.) . There was a new song: Elephant song also connected to counting up to 5. Alas, D. could not remember all the details of the lesson, so that's all I know about it.


All in all, these three days were fun, the only drawback was that we were too many (8 moms with 8  kids). However, I think we are going to pay for the next session in August, too.