Saturday, December 08, 2007

My Little Jigsaw Puzzler

Halle mastered the basic toddler puzzles (where each piece is an independent shape, or animal or whatever) awhile ago. She has a bunch of them now, and still loves to do them. Which is great because, in addition to the hand-eye coordination and problem-solving skills, she's learned shapes, letters, numbers and animals from these puzzles. What a great toy for a toddler.

A couple of months ago she received a 9-piece Dora jigsaw puzzle. We've done the puzzle together several times, but I didn't expect her to actually master this type of puzzle for some time. Well, she mastered it this morning.

She started off with the puzzle intact. She carefully removed each piece of the puzzle, one-by one. With each piece, as soon as she removed it, she studied the orientation of the piece, put it right back into the puzzle to make sure she understood how it fit, then removed it from the board and went on to the next piece. It blows my mind that her brain is working like this already! Once the board was empty, she put each and every piece back all by herself... with NO help from me!!

I am so proud of her! :)

3 comments:

Angelle said...

That is amazing! Maybe she will be the next Rubik's Cuber. :)

Keri Donald said...

I mean... good effort Halle. Keep up the good... effort. ;)

Christina said...

Good job Halle you must have a good teacher :-)

Keep up the good work mommy!