November 6, 2007 – 12:01 pm
My son returned from his weekend stay with his grandmother yesterday. He says to me, before time to go to bed: Grandmom let me sleep in her bed with her, so that means you have to let me sleep in your bed with you. That boy has math reasoning if I ever saw it. His [...]
We have been doing a lot of workbook activities of late. He has been really excelling at getting things done. He is the initiator and begs to do his books nearly daily. We have worked on his penmanship, spelling, letter recognition, reading, simple math, and artsy things. We made insects out of pipe cleaners. He [...]
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“I’m going to bed. I’m tired.” That’s what he just said to me. When did he start telling time? It’s quarter to nine. He looked at the clock, saw the hands on the 9 and said it was 9 o’ clock. Mind you, we have a clock with roman numerals.
That he can. Yesterday we were doing some follow up work to watching Blue’s Clues. He is adept at gluing and figuring things out. He did sequencing, matched similar letters, and he matched sounds with letters. Watching Blue’s Clues was a joy yesterday. They were working with phonics and letter recognition. Taz was spot on [...]
The time is : Written with no help or prompting. He reads it and says “No”. I corrected him and told him that the first 2 letters are indeed the word “no”. I watched him when he wrote it. It came out as OWN if he had written it in that order, but he did [...]
November 2, 2006 – 4:29 pm
We did the scarecrow face from one of his new workbooks today. He also did a page with mazes and another with count and circle the number of animals. We played the animal bingo game together, talked about how each word was spelled and the differences between a few of the animals that looked similar [...]
October 8, 2006 – 6:12 pm
I was trying to help my son with patterns. He is pretty good with some, but gets confused easily with others. There is an excellent section on Reader Rabbit: Bounce Down to Balloontown that uses various complex patterns to help the child learn better how to recognize and follow them. He is also not into [...]
September 25, 2006 – 8:04 pm
Son showed me he knows his opposites pretty well. He also knows when a group has a greater or lesser amount than another group. He is recognizing a few phonics oriented things like some words and the first sound…P is an easy one for him. He also made a crayon mosaic on the floor. We [...]
bible stories from rod and staff lesson one: God’s Word is Truth coloring page for same lesson patterns *has mastered simple 1212 patterns, now trying 112112 patterns* relational issues *bigger/smaller* following directions memory *does well with card flip games and the like* writing words and numbers *still shakey on how to hold pencil* with rod [...]
he was solving complex puzzles made up of a variety of shapes in veggie tales: the mystery of veggie island. he was putting things into categories based on specific characteristics on 123 Blues Clues. he was putting objects that are related to each other together in his workbook. *ball and bat* he was putting equal [...]