We had a busy week. Wednesday we left for the beach so I just let him do as much as he wanted Monday and Tuesday. He finished everything except Math and a few stories! I'm amazed the handwriting books got done, especially when I was intentionally not pushing anything.
We pulled out a new science book "What's Under the Sea?" to try to prepare for our trip to the beach. It was kind of a dry book and he didn't really get into it so we only read a couple of pages and then just talked about it more on his level. It was fun.
In the car on the way to the beach (the one we went to was about 6 hours away) the kids were all watching Blue's Clues and he pulled out his drawing board and wanted to draw all of the clues. I saw a big improvement in his artwork from before we started working on handwriting. I could tell what each picture was. That was encouraging to me.
Today's impromptu science lesson was the internal workings of the toilet as we had to replace one of ours. He was fascinated and wanted to keep flushing it ;-) It's fun to watch them learn "naturally."
This week we'll just be attempting to finish the math and reading from last week and recover from being gone. If he asks for the other books we'll do them, but otherwise we'll just attempt to have a restful week. If today is any indication... we'll need it!!
Monday, May 19, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Week #9 Review
We did things a little differently this week. A lot more play, and we never did something academic if he said he didn't want to. And we still got through it all! I'm noticing that he'd much rather pull out a book and go through several pages and lessons and then take a break, rather than do one page, switch to a new book, do a page, switch... so we're switching our style a little bit to accommodate that. He's having fun, and that's what's important to me.
To help strengthen his hand muscles we played a game where we spilled a bunch of toothpicks on the ground and had to pick them up with tweezers and put them in a bucket. He thought it was so much fun
.
Skating was a little better this week, although still hard. He is still having a hard time adjusting to his new, round-bladed skates. But he felt a little better when his buddy Cole tried to switch to hockey skates and had to switch back. It's hard for him being the only one in the class in hockey skates because he feels like he can't do what the other kids can do, but we keep reminding him that he learned with the other skates and he'll learn with these. He's learning perseverance and his teachers are SO patient with him, so that's been a huge blessing.
Tonight when we were reading his Bible before bed we were facing each other. I was reading and he said, "No, 'The king did everything.'" I had no idea what he was talking about so I kept going. When I got to the second page I realized what he was saying. Each page starts with a phrase in all caps to start it off. The second page had THE KING DID EVERYTHING... as the lead-in to the story. We were facing each other - which means he read it upside down! The kid never ceases to amaze me...
This week's verse was "Let all things be done decently and in order" 1 Corinthians 14:40. Guess I should pay a little more attention to my house if I expect him to respect God's Word... yikes.
To help strengthen his hand muscles we played a game where we spilled a bunch of toothpicks on the ground and had to pick them up with tweezers and put them in a bucket. He thought it was so much fun
.Skating was a little better this week, although still hard. He is still having a hard time adjusting to his new, round-bladed skates. But he felt a little better when his buddy Cole tried to switch to hockey skates and had to switch back. It's hard for him being the only one in the class in hockey skates because he feels like he can't do what the other kids can do, but we keep reminding him that he learned with the other skates and he'll learn with these. He's learning perseverance and his teachers are SO patient with him, so that's been a huge blessing.
Tonight when we were reading his Bible before bed we were facing each other. I was reading and he said, "No, 'The king did everything.'" I had no idea what he was talking about so I kept going. When I got to the second page I realized what he was saying. Each page starts with a phrase in all caps to start it off. The second page had THE KING DID EVERYTHING... as the lead-in to the story. We were facing each other - which means he read it upside down! The kid never ceases to amaze me...
This week's verse was "Let all things be done decently and in order" 1 Corinthians 14:40. Guess I should pay a little more attention to my house if I expect him to respect God's Word... yikes.
Friday, May 2, 2008
Week #8 Review
Well this really would be week #8/#9 review... he did two weeks' worth this week. Every book was "more, more!" The only thing we haven't finished for the second week is his handwriting (didn't want to push him there) and his reading to me. Well that and week 9's memory verse. I didn't want him to have to focus on more than one per week no matter how far he gets in everything else. So we'll keep those on a once-a-week pace.
This brought us to week 10 which includes a book we hadn't purchased yet, so I had to make a purchase. But then to get free shipping I had to add a few more books. Oh darn
Earlier this week Matthew was reading from one of his books. Sometimes it's hard to know if he actually follows the story when he's reading it because he's concentrating so hard on what he's saying. Well he was reading something about some chicks jumping into the pig pen and getting muddy. He stopped and said, "That's.... that's.... that's tewwible!" It was SO funny and unexpected and both Stephen and I started laughing. Then of course he had to do it every few sentences to see if he got the same reaction.
Today's favorite activity was identifying what were mammals and what weren't. He determined that Mommy, Daddy, Ashlyn, Jessica, Isaac, Ethan, Matthew, and Linny (from the Wonder Pets
) are mammals. He thought that was the coolest thing. Oh that he might always be so easily entertained!
This brought us to week 10 which includes a book we hadn't purchased yet, so I had to make a purchase. But then to get free shipping I had to add a few more books. Oh darn
Earlier this week Matthew was reading from one of his books. Sometimes it's hard to know if he actually follows the story when he's reading it because he's concentrating so hard on what he's saying. Well he was reading something about some chicks jumping into the pig pen and getting muddy. He stopped and said, "That's.... that's.... that's tewwible!" It was SO funny and unexpected and both Stephen and I started laughing. Then of course he had to do it every few sentences to see if he got the same reaction.
Today's favorite activity was identifying what were mammals and what weren't. He determined that Mommy, Daddy, Ashlyn, Jessica, Isaac, Ethan, Matthew, and Linny (from the Wonder Pets
) are mammals. He thought that was the coolest thing. Oh that he might always be so easily entertained!
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