Feb. 16, 2015. Everyone today is out of sorts so that makes school a little harder. We have accomplished some handwriting and All about reading. We are now on the Fluency sheets. They have added more, they have added extra for blends. So it will take longer to go through but I don't want to skip any of the extra as blends are important. So one page a day with a pick and choose option as for which words to do. W gave hassle but once E did his and received his reward W finished up his sheet. Good thing for Big Brothers and rewards. We will get through the day but this week I feel is going to be a toughy. We will make it and we will learn. We ended the day with All About Spelling. Slow progress but progress. We are still working on the last 4-5 sounds. Today we practiced them in salt. The kids seemed to respond well to that.
Feb. 17, 2015. Today I was overly tired so instead of the regular lessons we did Reading Eggs and Turtle Diary. E did lesson 36. W did map 4 quiz and got every question correct, which completed level 1 of Reading Eggs. He then went and did lesson 41. Next up was math with Turtle Diary.
Feb. 18, 2015. So today we did AAR, Math, and Handwriting. Started with W with AAR but got nothing but hassle so I switched to E. I wasn't sure how E would respond to the new way to do the fluency sheet. I had a number and he had to pick that many words for each category. He didn't want to do the work in the beginning saying it was hard but once he got into it he did just fine. We did compromise on some of the amount of work he had to do but he did the page and I was amazed. I then moved onto W. W did good. Need to work on putting the sounds together again as it seems he is falling back on bad habits. Next up for the day was handwriting. E did 3 words: one with a j, one with a k, and one with a l in it. W did the same. Need to work on W's spacing but I think it is more to do with not wanting to do the work. Last up was money math. We played "war" card game involving the penny, nickle, and dime. Then lastly we did a simple money worksheet (penny, nickle, dime). E seems like he needs work with identification but not sure if he needs the review or if he just was playing "dumb" in hopes not to have to do the work.
Feb. 19, 2015. We started the day off with Math. More about dimes, nickels, and pennies and how to make a certain amount using those coins (like 21 cents). They did good with the help of the abacus. Got to love the abacus. Next up was signing time. We learned signs for various sports. This got the kids pretending to play different sports together. Now its playtime (cooperation) before back to school. Next onto AAS. This is progressing. Today we worked on ending sounds and more segmenting. E and W have the segmenting down. W still has to think about the ending sounds but is doing much better and E is doing good with the ending sounds but I think we will still work on it just a little more.
Feb. 20, 2015. Today was Math test day. Each child took the mid-year test. Wish E would not fight so hard on doing them. He knows most of the stuff he just want try. One problem he got wrong because he miss counted not because he didn't know how to do the problem. Both kids need to work on days in a week and continue to work on days in a month. I wonder if E would do better with a multiple choice test. Just a thought for now. They did okay on the math test, however, I think I will do a week of math games.
Here looking forward to next week. :)
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