Jan. 15, 2008 - Yesterday's Successes
I hadn't scheduled it in, but my ds6 kept saying, "We need to go outside and do a page on the fossil I found." So since for whatever reason it was actually nice enough outside - we set up a blanket and headed out to the front yard. It seems he thinks that you have to be outside to add anything to your nature notebook - even if you are recording about an event that happened this weekend LOL. After much explaining that he can put whatever he wants in his Science notebook - that it does not have to be a poem - he still said he wanted to dictate poems. I decided to go ahead and let him dictate and me do the writing for now and to deal with the writing/spelling battle in other arenas. So here are the 2 pages he did yesterday out front....
And then I was quite proud of him after we had a little incident when he was being too silly to focus on schoolwork and went to his room for a bit - when he came back out he did this spelling page (proof by the way that I need a different spelling program since this is way too easy but in any other writing he still feels like he can't spell anything). At any rate I was sooo pleased with his handwriting and all the effort he put into drawing a simple picture - adding in details etc.... may not seem worthy of pointing out for others but for me I can see that he's come a long way!
Comments
Jan. 20, 2008 - <i>Untitled Comment</i>
Posted by noahsmom
Thanks for posting. Glad to hear from you. Recently DH and his mom have been harping on me and agreeing that the state should get to test all kids even homeschooled ones to make sure they are being taught what the state thinks they need to know. that is such backwards thinking to believe we should teach just what is on a test. But I pointed out state testing usually starts end of 2nd grade and DS is only in 1st. DH replies well we just wonder how DS is doing because he acts like he doesn't know how to hold a pencil. So I showed DH our son's samples of "Schoolwork" we've done and that seemed to apease him. DH did point out his mom said he could do all sorts of things in 1st grade and I reminded DH that when he was 6, he was in kindergarten for the 2nd time because he wasn't ready for first grade. And besides DS has only been learning to write for 14 weeks....give the kid some time to improve his technique.
Edited by noahsmom on Jan. 20, 2008 at 10:40 PM
Feb. 15, 2008 - Good drawing
Posted by lindygirl
Wow, those are nice drawings! I like the idea of a science journal. Sounds like you have a very bright kid!
