Perseverence and concentration.

Something that has at times in the past been something that A has occasionally expressed concern about (although admittedly not for a while), is that the girls don't seem to concentrate on something for any length of time.  I haven't really been too worried by this, as sometimes games can be very involved and go on for ages.  Just lately though, K has shown that she really can concentrate when she's interested.

As I mentioned previously, she spent nearly 3 hours this week doing DragonBox, a game that teaches algebra, then returned to it and worked her way through all of the problems that she hadn't got all three stars until she'd got 100% completely correct. 

K has occasionally had a go at the sudokus that you sometimes find that are aimed at children.  Last night, however, she took the Saturday paper upstairs and managed to do one by herself, which I'm pretty sure took her over an hour to complete.

Over the last couple of days, she's been having a go at the balloon making kit that she was given for her birthday, I think it was last year.  It took quite a lot of burst balloons before she got the hang of it.