March 17, 2012
March 16, 2012
Weekly Wrap-Up
Robbie only has one more lesson (he is already comfortable with the two-syllable words in that lesson) and two books to read to complete his Hooked on Phonics First Grade. If he'll allow it, we may take a week off before starting the Second Grade lessons. He also finished his Explode the Code 2 book this week. He's very excited to move on.
I gathered up all of our early readers and he has started reading them. Once to me and once to RockerDad.
In addition to his normal Singapore lessons, he's also having fun with our "Old-Timey Math" on his slate. Each day, I leave him four or five problems on each side. He loves using chalk, so this is usually the first thing he does. Here is a shot where I gave him doubles.
We've also been playing addition and subtraction games with his big dice. He loves math, but I don't want him to get bored with the regular lessons. These little variations seem to work well.
Well... I made my first (and possibly last) batch of homemade play dough...LOL. It was really sticky, and while he enjoyed it, he said that he preferred the "regular" Play Doh. Oh well, I always knew I was a bit of a homeschool outcast. ;)
... so, we bought him some new Play Doh and he made "Tiny" Toad, Luigi and Mario (with a ginormous nose). I guess my sticky dough didn't damage him too badly.
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.March 14, 2012
March 9, 2012
Weekly Wrap-Up
We're working our way through his NIrV Bible Story Book, again. We've started a two week study of Moses. We're also reading "The Prince of Egypt" as a fun addition. We'll end the two weeks by watching the movie of the same name.
Robbie is nearly finished with his current level of Hooked on Phonics as well as Explode the Code. He'll be moving on to the next level of each within the next two weeks. I had my doubts about his cursive, but his strokes and control are getting better each day.
We've played our Candyland and Chutes & Ladders word games a few times.
There's really not much for me to tell on the math front. He's steadily progressing with his Singapore lessons and Rightstart games.
He can zip through his addition cups, now.
We made homemade play dough, enjoyed some fun read-alouds and he went on a nature walk with RockerDad and Tyler.
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.March 8, 2012
Current Read-Alouds
These are a few of the books we enjoyed this week.
"Guess How Much I Love You" Sam McBratney
"Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" Judith Viorst
"Curious George" H.A. Rey
"Miss Nelson is Missing" James Marshall
All of the books above can be found in "The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury"
One or two pages from this per day...
"The Real Mother Goose" Blanche Fisher Wright (Illustrator)
I almost always initiate a mini-narration from him when we're finished so that I know he understood the story and we discuss the story during and after reading it. Of course, we read more than these, but many have been listed before, will be blogged about at a later date or weren't worth a report.
March 7, 2012
March 5, 2012
Chutes and Ladders or Candyland Reading Game
Robbie and I have been playing modified versions of Candyland and Chutes and Ladders. I made word cards to use instead of the color cards (Candyland) or spinner (Chutes and Ladders). Each card has a word for the player to read and a value (based upon phonetic difficulty) of 1, 2 or 3. I don't wish to discourage him by using only difficult words. This older photo shows some of his first set of cards.
When it's his turn, Robbie draws a card and reads the word. If he gets it on the first try, he can move his game piece the number of spaces listed on the card. If he doesn't read it correctly on the first try, I help him and it is set aside to be re-read at the end of the game.
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March 4, 2012
Nature Walk (with RockerDad)
RockerDad took Tyler and Robbie for a walk through a huge local nature park. The boys had a blast!!
Robbie found sweet gum fruit.
Tyler's iPhone videos and photos were his nature journal. Robbie's (paper) journal was lost when he fell in a creek last week.
Brothers on a log sofa or shot #1 of Robbie's "cheese" smile/grimace.
Brother totem pole or shot #2 of Robbie's "cheese" smile/grimace.
Ahh.. here's one of both of them with "normal" faces.
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March 2, 2012
Weekly Wrap-Up
We're working our way through his NIrV Bible Story Book again.
Robbie chose some of his favorite stories this week including: Noah, Stories of Abraham and Isaac and The Tower of Babel.
Here are a few pictures of our "Tower of Babel" day:
part of his Bible story...
... his unifinished tower made from toothpicks and mini marshmallows...
... which he enjoyed eating...
Usually, I am unable to get photos of his reading lessons because I'm involved, but I was able to get a few one day this week. He was to read a set of instructions on how to cut out, assemble and decorate a mask. (He wasn't really into the decorating part, LOL.)
He's really enjoying his cursive work as well as our Read-Alouds.
I'm really happy with Robbie's understanding and retention of his addition facts to 10. He loves to do his Singapore Math work and we try to play a RightStart Math Game at least 4 times each week.
We had some practical math (measuring, temperature, time, etc.) this week while baking some cookie pops (yes, from a mix...). I love that these concepts are not abstract to him. :)
Robbie sits for hours (literally) each day drawing pictures. It's a good thing I stocked up on composition books (he doesn't mind that they're ruled). He mostly draws Mario, Luigi and Sonic the Hedgehog.. then he colors them (or simply shades them with the pencil if he decides they're "black and white").
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