Our vacation drills

A week and a half through with vacations and pat, pat..we're using our 4hrs-a-day-a-max-thoroughly-of-concrete stuff to the very word. We've used them to the max and at the end of it, given the list of parameters that we'd targeted for the holidays, i foresee those to happen approximately, if not absolutely.

First things first - his skipping was pathetic. As a part of the martial arts drill, this kid is required to skip as many numbers as his legs could in one minute, continuous/with breaks. The one hour of play time (within the 4hrs that we have in hand) saw his skipping counts increase from a pathetic 3 to an amazing 100 continously which was an achievement for a person who started out with all the experienced- fellow- peer groups.

 

If his skipping was pathetic, his hooping skills were disastrous. He had not seen or even touched the hoops before he was asked to. When his showturn came, he would continue to circle around and the hoop would gradually desend down as it came. He would continue to do that many a time when the others would have actually done 160 - 200 in a minute. His face would display signs of tiredness amidst all our squeals of " anand, don't circle..just stay in one position with your legs apart and concentrate..dont turn...you would get it". Poor boy, if it were an other challenging event like running or math or a quiz, he would have been unconsolable. But, this did not ring anything to him..thanks to the exercise which became a drill by itself.

But, just a week after seeing the disaster reckon and after possessing a hoop for his own, his levels are drastic. Can you guess what his hooping count could be?? He went from 40- 100-200 to 450, nonstop, today.

Today(friday the 9th of april), it is 777 hoops in less than 5 minutes, continuous. Way to go, my boy! (and with a wooden hoop which is quite thick and hard and can be quite  painful if handled wrongly) 

This is the kind of determination that we lack, being adult ourselves, or not having been taught the spirit to fight. SOmetime, i fear that the exercises would really drain his energy down, having known his frail consitution. But, this frail body has only the power to establish when necessary than ours.

Well, pat pat..i pat this kid for relentlessly focussing on his efforts and also breaking down in the process, due to his limitations. 

Apart from those exercises, within the one hour of sport and play, he does a bit of cycling and focuses on drawing imaginary alphabets on the floor thereby, which builds his enthusiasm.

I would be sitting down with the brainteasers in between to chirp him up when his energy levels drop and then as he regains, he would start his rigours all over again.

Story time and he would read a story and retell it in his own words. Would do a bit of hindi and english writing, to practice his handwriting. A bit of math here and there to suffuse his olympiad spirits.

Today, we had a vocabulary building session with the "sh" blend. He was happy to be figuring out more words and so far, our list has crossed 100. See if you can manage to get some more. He loves these exercises.  

Well, this is  how those 4 hrs of our time goes. Thanks to the little one, she would be happily in school trying to figure out who is doing what to whom. She is a "leader"as her teacher described her during the PTM.

There are days when we go out shopping for the back-to-school needs and somehow try to give him a chance to enjoy happily.

Finally our expected targets for achievement are as follows : * to be able to read carefully and clearly making the minimum of mistakes.

* To have a decently legible handwriting before  we move to the next grade

* To keep reinforcing language and math skills off and on to stay put.

There is just one more week before we know the actual results, but, thus far, he has been working towards it meticulously. Kudos!! 

 

 

Comments

[Lakshmi]

[this is good] You are one heck of a dedicated mom, I tell ya.

[Srividya Narasimhan]

i'm sure, every mother is to her child...incl the way you go abt with ur V. We're the vehicles for their ventures and we should be carrying them safely and rightly.