3.23.11

Finished Lesson 49 in math.

Did two more pages of EC.

2 sick kids and teething baby. :-)

3.22.11

Between vacation and sickness, its been awhile. But we did lots of school today. :-)

Here's some of what we did today:
The first page of Lesson 48 in our Saxon Math workbook. Andrew is learning how to count by twos and even and odd numbers. As you can see, handwriting still needs work. :-)

Andrew started Lesson 2 in Explode the Code 1 1/2. He is doing very well sounding out words. I am glad I decided to do 1 1/2 instead of skipping to 2. This book is a bit more difficult than 1 and good practice for him.

I copied a page out of the McGuffey Reader and had Andrew circle the buzz words. These are words that have the buzz 's' sound like in 'as,' 'his,' etc.

We also did HWT practicing the number 9 since I realized he always writes this letter backwards. I'm not sure what to do with handwriting since it is nearly impossible to get him to sit still without threats, etc.

I got a reading comprehension workbook out of the library and he read a short 8 sentence story and then had to answer 3 questions about the story. This is really the first work we've done with reading comprehension and he did very well.

3.3.11

Math~Lesson 46, counting by twos, and addition math sheet (adding one to a number). Phonics~Waiting for Explode the Code 1 1/2 to arrive so we did this sheet.

Reading~McGuffey Lessons 27 and 28 (He is doing so well! He is really sounding out words better now.)

Bible~Elijah and the widow

Handwriting ~ 'M'

3.2.11

We read 2 lessons from McGuffey. Yup, that's all we did. :-) Maybe he'll do some tux math later.

3.1.11

Bible~David and Mephibosheth, went over Bible memory for Sunday school

Reading~McGuffey Reader, Lesson 24-he only needed help with one word, 'boy'

Phonics~Explode the Code end of book test-not real well, got 5 out of 20 wrong (all in the verbal portion). Part of his problem is he still mixes up his b's and d's. I think I will order book 1 1/2 before we do book 2. I think I will also work on dictating words for him to spell and recognize.

Math~Doubles sheet. Did very well. Wrote 7+7=14 at first and then the next two times wrote that it was 4. He's not real good at concentrating on a task he doesn't want to do.