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Mar. 24, 2008
Monday March 24, 2008
We've done lessons in fits and starts over the past couple weeks since I last posted but I haven't had the mental energy to post anything. So I will start today with a brief overview of where we're hanging out and where we're headed.
The boys are coming along swimmingly with their reading. TH especially is still trying to guess words from context and from previous sentences but he is fully able to sound them out when I admonish him to do so. We're moving through 4-5 sentences per day from The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading which works out to about one-third of a lesson per day. They're all working in their new Explode the Code workbooks. I had to let TH get a page or two ahead to eliminate the temptation for both of them to look at each other's pages. It's not so much that they're trying to cheat but it's hard to not to peek at your neighbor's paper when he's at the same table, 6 inches away. Also, being a page or so ahead helps TH to feel like he really is the older brother and therefore capable of more than AC. Truthfully AC is just as capable (except perhaps in the handwriting department) but what TH doesn't know won't interrupt our lessons with teary tirades.
We drove to Nashville last week and listened to the first 6 or 8 chapters of Prince Caspian. I count that as lessons :) TH and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There's something else he excells at- listening to and retaining a story. He is constantly begging me to put it on so we can listen to some more. I think he and I will listen to some more during naptime today while we fold some laundry. I don't think anyone else will mind since they fell asleep during a good part of the car ride.
We've started doing addition problems in our math which is just extraordinary to me. How can my children possibly be old enough to learn addition?? It doesn't seem possible but it's the truth. I am gobsmacked at the very idea of it. AC has been doing them in his head and out loud for a few weeks but now they're doing them on paper with plus signs and equals signs and everything! AC is definitely a natural math geek- he just "gets" numbers in a way that is pretty much effortless. It's exciting to watch and perhaps a bit scary because I only went through pre-calculus in school so we may be in for some serious learning together in a few years time. Thankfully I really enjoy math so we'll be able to tackle it together and I will end up learning as much as he does.
The boys' handwriting seems to be slacking a bit so we need to get some more practice in on that. Last week we started thank you notes for the gifts from AC's 5th birthday party (TH and MJ got a gift each as well so there's more than just AC writing notes) I reckon that's handwriting and practical life skills in one. One stone+ two dead birds= awesome! Or maybe "gruesome." I always thought that was a bit of an icky metaphor but it works and it's practical. |
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