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Keeping Up....
14 November 2008
About time, huh?
I know, I know. It's been forever since I've updated here. And I really regret it because I really do want to keep a log of how our first year goes. So encourage me to do better, okay?
Today I thought I'd post some pictures of what the boys have been working on lately. I've really been impressed with how hard they are willing to work, and with what they are able to do. Every day they surprise me.
First, I will post some pictures that they colored today. Tonight, the space shuttle Endeavor is scheduled to blast off. So we've been talking a lot about it, and today colored some space pictures. You'll be able to see here how differently the boys color. Drew likes color and lots of it. AJ likes perfection and detail.
Here is AJ's space shuttle picture. He had to look at a picture of a real space shuttle so he could get the colors right. He made the fire coming out of the bottom blue because it's "really really hot", and the sky is black because it's a night launch.
And here is AJ's astronaut. Again, he found a photograph of an astronaut so he would know how to color the suit. He informed me that the yellow in the sky is stars.
Here is Drew's space shuttle picture. You can see that he didn't really care about the "correct" colors. He just got creative and went to town.
And Drew's astronaut. He was kind of sick of coloring at this point, so he didn't want to do the sky. He told me that the red face was not an accident. He said, "That's me mom, and I have a BAD sunburn on my face."
And now for some real schoolwork.
Both boys agree that Phonics is their favorite subject. Probably because it's so easy right now. Phonics isn't challenging them at all, and we are supplementing with other things to encourage reading.
Here is a page from Drew's phonics book. The "sat" picture was actually very impressive until he drew the boy sitting. He drew a chair first and it really looked like one of our dining room chairs. I was very impressed. ;)
And a page from AJ's phonics book. Both boys were able to do this page with no help at all. They were able to read all of the words and successfully answer the questions.
Drew also does a few pages each day in a supplemental phonics-ish book that he LOVES. It's pretty simple for him, but I think it's good review for him, and he loves all of the different activities. Here is a page from that book.
AJ is nearly done with his math book. I don't remember if I posted that I stopped math with Drew. He was having a REALLY hard time with it and it was causing him a lot of frustration each day. I decided to put the book away and we'll bring it back out sometime next year (he's convinced that he'll have an easier time with it when he turns 5). I've been reinforcing counting and simple addition with him using worksheets and dot to dots. Drew also LOVES mazes. Anyhow, here is a page from AJ's math book. This was a review page, so it shows many of the things he's been working on. He has learned to count by 2's, 5's, 10's, 20's, and 100's. Other things he has learned include: simple addition, solving for an unknown, simple word problems, tally marks, etc.
At the end of each day, the boys look forward to coloring in their journals. It's so interesting to see the differences in what they draw. I give them complete free reign in their journals, and they are allowed to draw or color or write whatever they want. AJ is much more abstract in his drawings. He'll draw things like dinosaurs or monsters. But usually his page will just have a bunch of shapes or lines on it that he connects and colors. Drew, on the other hand, almost always draws people or places that we go (church, home, MOPS, etc).
Here's a page from AJ's journal. This is a dinosaur.
And here is a page from Drew's journal. It's a self portrait.
And that's it for today. Hopefully now that I've posted, I'll continue to post at least once a week. The next couple of weeks will be filled with books, worksheets, and activities about Thanksgiving, so hopefully I can get some good pictures of what they work on.
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