Today Andrew reread some of his little books (which we haven't done in over a week!) and I was pleasantly surprised at how much he could read. I have another one we will start tomorrow. He also practiced some writing, wrote some numbers, did a page of phonics and did Click n kids. He is currently on lesson 22 of Click n kids. I noticed he is having trouble distinguishing the middle sound of 3 letter words so we will work on that. His handwriting is atrocious, but I realize he is a five year old boys so we will just have to practice, practice, practice! We also did some addition/subtraction using our fingers instead of pennies. I noticed he didn't always have to count my fingers, he could recognize how many are left just by glancing at my hand. When I worked with 1st graders, I know some of them still had to count each finger and weren't able to just recognize with a glance so it seems he is on the right track. He also seems to understand the concept of zero. He knows that zero is nothing, but he doesn't know immediately that subtracting zero from any number always results in the number. That will come with practice.
Yesterday I read him the story of Samson and how Samson killed a bunch of Philistines by breaking the pillars of the building down and Andrew said, "But Samson didn't die."
I said, "Yeah, Samson died too."
Andrew looked at me in horror and Chris says, "You had to tell him that?! I remember how I felt when I found out Samson died!"
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