Category Archives: Writing

Brighter Vision: Winter Holidays

Well he got his unit today on Winter Holidays and has already put together the snowflake puzzle on his own. Now he is trying to sort out his 8′s and 9′s in the workbook. I get tired of trying to make him stick to the rules of the page. He wants to do what he [...]

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 [...]

latest stuff

He hasn’t been too into working in his books, only his video games. Reader Rabbit Bouncedown to Balloontown is his favorite. It is teaching him relational things like big, bigger, biggest. He has a good grasp of that. He decided to write his numbers in one of his workbooks. He also came to me to [...]

working through the books

He has been 100% potty trained now. He is learning many words and ways to do things. He is working through the Rod and Staff preK books at his pace. He loves the books. He has begun to follow directions much better. He can retain the instructions pretty well after being told 2 times.

Reading and Writing

My son wrote his titi’s full name tonight after I told him to write his own name. He has never learned how to spell her name, but has seen it a few times. He spelled it correctly and in order even tho it is discombobulated on the page. His titi and I sat in awe [...]