March 2, 2015. Hello again everyone. Today we started with Signing Time and then moved into AAR. It was a reading a story day. E struggles so hard. It's not that he is not capable it is he just doesn't want to try because he is still in the sounding it out phase. I might take a week or two and review some key words with him. I wish I could slow it down for him so that he would start to enjoy reading again but we will probably have to put him back in public school for school year 2016-2017 school year due to money. W reads better than E put still has a few problems putting the sounds together. He gets frustrated but I think it is more that he sees E does it and wants to copy E. Last on the list is Math. We did an actual lesson today. We did the warm up exercise and then had a lesson on how to act. We moved onto the corners activity game. The kids are okay with this game. They are not confident yet even though the answer are more or less on the board. This is a game we will play again. Today is done.
March 3, 2015. Since today is game day I decided for Reading that instead of a game they would read from the first book in AAR. W read "Jam" from the "Run, Bug, Run!" book in AAR level 1 Vol. 1. This story is the first story in the book and a fairly predictable story. W ended up sounding out a few words the main word though was had. I felt this was a good review and might continue to go this route for the week. E of course did not want to read. His latest response was he had already read it and wanted something new. However he didn't like the one that he read yesterday so we compromised and he read "The Tan Hat" (one I might add he read before) from the "Run, Bug, Run!" book in AAR level 1 Vol. 1. This is the second story in the book and also a little predictable. Although E sounded out most of the words he himself decided to reread the sentence that he sounded out. The second time was read smoothly. I thought it was a good thing. I think I might continue on this root for the week. Next game was the corners activity games. The kids did better this time. I helped out but this time I told the the color or the column (column would be look in the 10's column). We added the points in the end. W won today but not by that much. Will play the game again.
March 4, 2015. Today is pick the order of your subjects day. W picks order (Reading, Math, Handwriting, FLL, AAS) E picks order (Math, AAS , Reading, FLL, handwriting). So W reads the same story from yesterday. He did better today. He says it is his favorite story. Next up we do Math lesson from Rightstart which is the corners game. E and W play. W wins in the end but they didn't go to 100. W won with 80pts and E was not far behind with 75pts. Next up was E for AAS. He does really well with segmenting. Time to move on. Next up Handwriting for W (words for m,n, and o). E read the same one that he did yesterday (he counted pages to see which story was less). He did better today. He didn't feel the need to reread the sentences over. Next up for both kids is FLL. We reviewed interjections and conjunctions. Then we did dictation. I made up a dictation sentence instead of the one the book used but it worked. E had the best handwriting yet. One more thing each and they are done for the day. W did the AAS and he is good at the syllable too. Will move on for him also. E did handwriting but only did one word (o).
March 5, 2015. Today was suppose to be an easy day. For W it was. He breezed through Handwriting (p words and q words), Reading (he read Hit the Gas from Level 1 Vol. 1), Signing Time, and Math. Today was the end of the 2 day lesson. It was the corners game again. He didn't want to play he wanted the corners exercise. We went to 50 and the boys ended up tying. W gets the 5, 10, 15, and 20 with no problem E was a struggle not because he couldn't do the work he just didn't want to. He did the Handwriting (m and n words), signing time (the only thing he didn't give a hassel about), Math (which he was okay with doing since it was a game his eyes were just acting up), and finally Reading. He read Lost in the Bog from Level 1 Vol. 2. This one not the one I wanted him to read but he used logic saying that he wanted to read a harder one so it will be easier later so it is the one we went with. He read it. I'm proud.
March 6, 2015. Today I decided that the kids should retake the 1st 9 week test. They did really well. W missed 1.5 questions and E missed 2 questions. They both got in the 80%-90% range. I am proud it showed me that they have indeed mastered stuff from that test that when they first took it was not all that good. Both kids need more work on word problems. Next was reading. I finally after lots of hassle about reading got E to read. E read Jam from Level 1 Vol. 1. He sounded out the words but that is okay. I think if he reads it enough the words will come. W picked The Bad Rat from Level 1 Vol. 1. He did good. Next he insisted on his favorite story Jam. He did really good on that one. Next up was Signing Time. W likes to teach me the signs as I do other things. It works. E watches and learns but makes it like he doesn't. To each their own. I was like that as a kids. I observed but rarely participated. Last thing for the day was AAS. I had them tell me all the sounds for i, o, u, and y. E has mastered the u. All in all not a bad day.
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