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.