Day 8: Legos

​Today Sachin used Legos to build a boat. He used the illustration booklet and a bit of my help to build the boat. It was a 213 piece project. I laid out pieces required for each page module and then showed him. Most of the time, he connected the pieces correctly. After a while, he would look at the illustration and connect the pieces without any help, except he still required me to lay out the pieces. Every now and then, he needed to be corrected. Sometimes, he studied the illustration seriously, like an engineer studying a blueprint, before making his next move. He was extremely pleased when finished the project.
The purpose of this task was to help Sachin develop a concept of constructing things using illustrations. I was pleasantly surprised with Sachin’s performance today. Few things to note:

• he was not reading a book even if it was pictorial;
• he used illustrations to construct something;
• sometimes he would correct his error without any help;
• he studied the illustrations to figure out his next step when he was stuck;
• above all, he very engrossed in the task and seemed to enjoy it immensely.

We went for our usual walk in the evening and when we returned, Sachin watered the garden.

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Today was perhaps the best day since we started Sachin’s programme. Once again he has raised the bar.