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Josiah finished his math review I had for him so he's been busy spending time doing his Rainbow Rock CD Rom. He can now answer 9 addition problems in 60 seconds. I have come to the realization that he is not actually adding but counting (ie. 6+4= 7,8,9,10 or seveightnineten as he whispers it). We have decided to hold off on Singapore Math PM3 because he's just not ready for it. And because DH wants us to try Math-U-See Alpha. We will "see" how this program works for him. He has been reading Nancy Drew all week. He got a 6 book set at the Salvation Army for $4.25 and he has been quite engrossed. He felt this was a real deal. He figured out that each book cost him $0.71, each page cost him less then a penny and that to buy that many hours worth of entertainment at the movie theater would cost him $63 not including popcorn or tax. A little grammar and a little Latin got done. I'm in no real hurry to get finished with the little that is left in his daily workbooks anyway. We have finished all our Earth Science I had planned for this year and I really need to get to the experiments. He will start Space after Christmas. I'm hoping to purchase a good pair of binoculars or a half way decent telescope (maybe used) in January. He read a little for U.S. and State History. *Concerning my informal evaluation in Reading... He finished the tests as in we ran out of test before he ran out of knowledge. So we've decided to have him evaluated by a professional. He has an appointment on the 8th of November. If we like the psychiatrist, we are going to see about some issues that are less academically related that Josiah has. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Micah is doing really well with First Language Lessons and will be finished with 1st grade grammar by Christmas or maybe the end of January. He's not doing so well with writing. We are both very frustrated with this and I've decided to step back and reevaluate what we are doing (More about this later). He has finished Singapore Math PM1B (His favorite subject) this week we worked on learning to use the Mouse for his Rainbow Rock CD Rom. He has some trouble manipulating the mouse well enough to do this task on his own. He also did some U.S. and State History. We still have a few animals to cover in Biology (his second favorite subject) and then we will go into Anatomy. We read "Flat Stanley" and talked about "What if there were a flat Micah?". Next week we are going to make a flat Micah. We will laminate it, fold it, write a letter, add a journal and send it to some friends of ours. We also joined the Flat Travelers and intend to do something with them. *While we were looking into some concerns we have for Josiah we were directed to a book called "The Out of Sync Child" by Carol Stock Kranowitz. We found the descriptions in this book strikingly familiar... they were nearly parallel with Micah. Such things as his fine and gross motor skill issues, his lack of attention, and hyper-attention issues, sensitivity to noise and touch along with many, many other things we were hoping he would have grown out of by now. We've spoken with our Ped. about this and she has referred us to a Developmental Ped. He will be evaluated on the 13th of December. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zechariah reviewed the Vowels and learned about a paradox. He used it in a sentence... I'm a sweet stinker Nana, and that's a paradox! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Selah stayed cute. Worked on eating as much baby food as her little belly can hold and picked up her bottle (though she is not yet able to bring it to her mouth). |
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