We started school again. This is the first 2 days of our second quarter. I gave dd7 a math test from the work done last quarter…she aced it!! Very simple stuff though. We had to slow down the pace from what the workbook was doing so we are still at the beginning of the workbook…lots of ground to cover but I see improvement in her understanding and retention…I’ve just got to try not to put too much pressure on her when she gives wrong answers for what I know she knows…trying to get her to THINK about what the problem is asking and not just memorize and spit out the answer.
My ds5 is doing well with his spelling/phonics/orthography…I finally decided to start using WRR(Writing Road to Reading) with him and we went over yesterday sounding out and spelling the words from the Ayers list…we worked on these: go, me, and, do, at.
As I taught each word we wrote each letter and he did wonderful…yes, he’s a boy and he argued with me over which way the lower case ’a’ faces and things like that but I held up and out and we finally got the lesson accomplished…at least we got accomplished what I could handle!!!
Today for read aloud we read the book Bearskin by Howard Pyle. It was a good little story.
So we are back in the saddle again, after being somewhat refreshed by our 2 week vacation…it was very nice…thank the Lord!!!!
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Comment by Anna-Marie — November 1, 2006 @ 12:53 pm