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Progress Report for 6-year-old son

August 2005-May 2006

 

Language Arts

Reading – He has made tremendous progress in reading this year and is now able to read independently around the 3^rd grade level.  He enjoys reading Magic Tree House, Ricky Ricotta, Franny K. Stein, and Berenstain Bears books.  He read through all the 1^st grade advanced readers from Sonlight’s curriculum, and he has even read several books from The Chronicles of Narnia independently.  

Writing – He has learned to print all of his letters properly using Handwriting without Tears My Printing Book.

Grammar – He has been learning the definition of a noun using First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind.

Spelling – He spells at the mid-2^nd grade level.  We did not do a formal study of spelling this year.

 

Math

This year we used ShillerMath books 1 & 2, completing up to Activity 59 of book 2.  He has made tremendous progress in learning basic addition and subtraction facts, and has even memorized several multiplication facts.  He can add numbers to the thousands using manipulatives, even when exchange is required.  He enjoys counting has counted up to 12,000 …so far.  He has learned about multiples, expressing inequalities, even and odd numbers, groupings from solo to quintet, parallel lines and parallelograms, basic probability and estimation, Roman numerals to 10, triangular numbers, and counting money (pennies, dimes, nickels).  He needs to continue to work on basic directionality, as he still sometimes confuses right and left.  He has gone far beyond the math most children encounter in Kindergarten. 

 

History

We studied history beginning with Ancient Greece using Story of the World, Volume 1.  He demonstrates comprehension and retention of the subject matter and read some library books related to our history topics.   He especially enjoyed our study of Roman gladiators. 

 

Science

While we did not do a formal study of science this year, He is certainly very interested in science, and enjoys reading books about science, including the Magic School Bus series. 

 

Bible

This year in Community Bible Study, he completed a survey course of the Bible.  As part of our church’s Awana program, he also memorized verses and completed crafts to finish the Skipper Handbook.  In the evenings, he enjoyed listening to missionary stories as part of our family devotions.

 

Foreign Language

In March he started learning Chinese and has mastered the Chinese alphabet (written and spoken), numbers, and tones.  He is quickly developing an oral vocabulary and has learned 3 songs in Chinese.  His reading ability is equivalent to that of a young first grader in Chinese school.