I am feeling so proud of my Levi boy these days as I reflect upon all of the progress he has made over this school year. He has nearly completed the pages for his naturalist notebook. His latest additions were pages for mammals and reptiles.
The top picture shows how he is now able to manipulate the paper and cut around the image. I remember how I had to painstakingly take the paper out of his hand, re-position it, and show him where he needed to concentrate for every new cut. I am talking hundreds and hundreds of times here. He now recognizes what needs trimmed and can turn the paper as needed totally on his own. He used to only be able to cut straight lines, but now moves both the paper and the hand he is cutting with to change direction. He also used to begin a cut and follow it through to completion with no exception. Sometimes he was not properly lined up and would cut straight through a picture, totally ruining it. If you look at the second picture you will see that he has gotten quite good at determining where borders are located. At the beginning of the year he would have struggled tremendously to steady the scissors enough to make such a clean cut between those two small pictures.
You'll notice in the final picture that I trimmed his pages and put them in page protectors. (FYI: there are pages on the back of each of the ones shown. His addition of mammals and reptiles brings him to ten pages in all.) I showed Levi about five different 3-prong folders and let him take his pick. His choice? Very fittingly, he chose a green one. I don't suppose there's a color that better symbolizes nature than green. Good job, Levi! He is not happy with this latest change to his year-long science project, but I am trying to get it presentable for his assessment. I also thought that it might make it sort of like a book for him to thumb through. I won't have to worry about him losing or damaging pages and it seems like he should be able to enjoy it better this way. Maybe it will grow on him?
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