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By the Book
9.21.2007
Current Progress
We have only had 1 1/2 lessons this week. K is sick, so I have been having her rest. We did do a half lesson on Wednesday, because she specifically asked to do one, but then I had her stop because she looked so tired. She has been doing extremely good work on her lessons, though! She really is loving school. She gets so excited when I say it is time for school.
The calendar part of the Saxon math is boring for her, since it's the same thing every day. I think it was the third day of math that she blurted out all of the answers to the questions I hadn't even asked yet. We still don't have our teddy bear counters, so there have been a few parts that we have had to skip from math. But she liked making a pictograph comparing the girls to boys in our family, and she still loves to make her patterns with her pattern blocks.
She is really starting to get some of the reading concepts down. We have recently discussed characters and summarizing. She is pretty good about telling a story back, but sometimes she prefers to change it up and make it her own. She is very good at making up alternate endings to stories. Her reading book has some pages that have lines for tracing and writing out words. The lesson manual says that I should write this stuff in for her, unless she wants to try it on her own. Of course, since she is already writing, she does it herself. There are also times that the lesson manual says I should read a title or a sentence to her from her book. However, for the most part she reads these herself. They are things like "Down and Up" and "Run, run as fast as you can!" She is also learning to make sentences. We have word cards and a period card that she uses to make sentences out of simple words. She understands that a capital starts a sentence and that a period ends it. The next couple of lessons cover the difference between asking and telling sentences.
The one thing that she seems to have a problem with is science. She does not seem to have an interest in me talking about science topics, but does like to do the hands-on activities. She did surprise me with some of the science facts that she retained, though. Her current library storytime theme is the senses, which we are currently covering in school. There is a cute story about this that I will have her Daddy recount.
H has been working in some of her books, but does not really like to do them with a crayon. She prefers to have me ask her to count something or find the blue square on the page. She is not ready to start writing yet. Her coloring is getting much better, though. She is starting to completely color a shape, instead of just put a scribble in it and move on. I was trying to have her trace the shape of a 2 with her finger the other day, using some alphabet toys that we have, but she did not want to do that. It was towards the end of our lesson together, so I think she was just ready to play.
Well, that about sums up our first four weeks. So far, I will say that this is really working out. K is learning, H is getting used to the process, and I am getting into a routine. If things continue on the current path, we will have a very productive school year.
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