Category Archives: Vocabulary

Flash Cards

I love flash cards. They are so easy to use for learning. I have a bunch that I used as a child that I am now using with my son. On one side there are words that start with the letter on the other side of the card. When you flip the card you see [...]

He can count by 20s?

Yes in recent news, he can count by 20′s and it’s pretty shocking to me LOL He can also recognize/predict words by the sounds the letters make. This morning he was playing his new Sesame Street V-smile game and he was rhyming words pretty well. I am proud of his progress. He is also picking [...]

Don’t jump in the shower!

That’s what he told my mother today when she said she had to go so she could jump in the shower. My son chimes in with a very stern look on his face “Don’t jump in the shower! You’ll get in trouble for being bad and hurt yourself!” When he was visiting his other grandparents, [...]

Yesterday’s fervor & Today’s task

My son had the wind of inspiration with him yesterday as he breezed through about six pages of his new workbook from Brighter Vision and helped me make stand up animal cutouts. He was still asking for more workbook pages when I got tired! His phonics skills are getting stronger. He only made a few [...]

Chronological Order and Associations

This afternoon, my son and I undertook a few small cut and paste projects. He was able to put pictures in categories based on what type of transportation they were: Land, Air, Sea. Then he put vehicles with the workers who use them: train master, firefighter, police woman, and farmer. Next, we tackled two story [...]

Brighter Vision Learning Adventures: ocean life

We got his new packet in the mail today. The workbook is a little over his head I think, but he still is working his way through a number of others. He just learned about univalve and bivalve creatures with the help of the shells he got in the packet and the wonderful world of [...]

Curriculum

I have just ordered the 7 book Rod and Staff Curriculum package for Preschool. I can’t wait to get it and show the baby. He will probably want to do all the worksheets at once. I wouldn’t care, just as long as he got the main concepts. It’s all for him to learn at his [...]

counting and new sentences

Last week, his dad was counting some money. He wanted to help, so Will 3(his dad) gave him the dollar bills… and they counted together * one, two, three *. Then li’l will saw the fourth piece of money wasn’t the same as the one dollar bills they were counting, and recognized it as * [...]

Connections through recognition

Yesterday we went to deliver Christmas presents to our friends. As we were standing outside of the apartment, my son noticed the 3 numbers by the door. He said “Look! Five!” None of the numbers were the number five, but he knows they were numbers. The only number he recognizes on a regular basis is [...]