What a week-February

Last week we had classes and E had his first portfolio evaluation.  He passed.  Now onto this week.

Remember choices are a key to cooperation.

February 9, 2015.  Today was an off day and my husband stayed home sick.  I was determined to do school anyways.  We got a late late start.  E did AAR, AAS, and Math.  Nothing else accomplished so will move the rest onto tomorrow which is game day.  E did well with AAR and Math.  He did good with AAS.  We are still working on all the sounds for a few of the letters.  Need to think of a fun way to do this instead of just drills.  W did sign, AAR, and Math.  He did well with Sign and good with AAR.  He put up a fuss with Math.  I think he wanted more time with Daddy; however daddy wasn't feeling great.  So we have stopped school for the day and will finish it on day 2 (game day).  Something fun is tomorrow night is Tiger Rock night.  This will be there 2nd time attending.

February 10, 2015.  Today we finished up AAS for W and Sign for E.  When I'm not around and looking E does some of the signs.  Anything for Minecraft Videos I guess.  We also did Handwriting and Art.  Handwriting E chose to write 1 sentence for Nonni and made something.  W chose 1 sentence and made several things.  We will let them dry, take pictures, and send the Valentine "Cards"  to Nonni.


February 11, 2015.  First up today was AAR picked by the kids.  We did flashcard new words learned.  To make it fun if they could sound it out before me they can "beat me up".  They did.  The rule breaker was, was included.  We learned this and they "beat me up".  It was a fun way to turn a boring thing into something fun.  Just need a different fun way instead of "beat me up".  Next up was Math (RightStart Level B 1st edition).  While I worked with one child the other child was set up with Reading Eggs.  We did the first part of three parts.  Today was more work/games on the minutes of a clock..right now we are working on increments of 5min.  We ended the day with Handwriting.  W and E did a word with e, a word with f, a word with g, a word with h.  W did good with his words no hassels etc.  Still have a few letters to work on.  E gave hassle and compromises and said his hand would hurt if he did that much, in the end E did the work.  I wish I could get him to write with his left hand instead of his right hand.  His previous school messed that one up big.  All in all a good day.

February 12, 2015.  We started with AAR.  Reading blends flip cards and reading 2 words on socks.  I wish I could get my children to just do the work without all the hassle, compromises, and excuses.  Once they get into it they do good and kind of even enjoy themselves.  E wants to know why he has to read.  Not sure if my response was good or not but I said so you can grow to be intellegent and not have to rely on others to tell you all information.  E and W did the work and did good with it.  W still needs work on final blends and E needs work on CH sounds.  So I decided to stop school and teach respect and responsibility instead.  We worked on chores while listening to music.  Deciding and chooses and consequences. After everyone chilled I gave them a minecraft video break.  Then we did math.  Same senerio as yesterday.  One was doing reading eggs while the other was with me doing day 2 of 3 with clocks.    W was up first.  He has a good memory.  He just needs to work on putting the hour and time together.  E needs more work on matching up the time with an analog clock without the minutes on the analog clock.  Not sure if that makes since but he will get it.  We modified the rules a little and he did good.  With more practice he will get it.  Schools out for the day now.

February 13, 2015.  Today is the last day of school for the week.  This week it doesn't seem like we have been accomplishing much but we have been doing the "important" subjects at least.  Today we finished day 3 of 3 for math.  Both kids still need work on hours with minutes and where the minutes fall on the clock.  Again while one was doing math the other was on Reading Eggs.  W is ahead on Reading Eggs because he wanted to unlock some of the free play so he did some extra work on that.  Next thing we did today was First Language Lessons.  We worked on Interjections with a brief review of adjectives.  This lesson also called for Dictation.  Dictation is fairly new for the kids so we discuss it  first and I repeat the sentence as they write it.  I also spell the words for them as spelling is still in its infancy.  They did good.  I hope to get one more thing accomplished tonight and that is a little bit of handwriting.