Week 1 Round-Up

My school notes for the week -

Day #1
     Session A - 10 min.   Calender X
          Notes: ABC cards 25/26, Numbers 1-10 cards 6/10
   
     Session B - 25 min.
          Notes: Coloring Book "M" page, Numbers Book "Zero" page, Most Loved Monster

Day #2
      Missed completely.  Tooth pain that had me laying on the couch wishing for death and I had to make a trip to the dentist.

Day #3
     Session A - 10 min.   Calender X
          Notes: ABC cards 24/26, Numbers 1-10 cards 8/10
   
     Session B - 25 min.
          Notes: Alphabet Animals "M" page, Coloring Book "1" page, Nature Reader "M is for Manatee",
                     Drawing time (he drew a house)

Day #4
     Session A - 10 min.   Calender X
          Notes: ABC cards 25/26, Numbers 1-10 cards 9/10
   
     Session B - 35 min.
          Notes: FSR Book A Lesson 1, Lots of reading (Babbit, The Tiger Who Came to Tea, The
                     Nutcracker, The Wizard of Oz)

Day #5
     Session A - 10 min.   Calender X
          Notes: ABC cards 24/26, Numbers 1-10 cards 9/10, Vowels
   
     Session B - 40 min.
          Notes: Numbers book "Zero", Wipe off ABC's "M" page, Reading (How the Grinch Stole                           Christmas), Construction paper, glue, scissors project, Practiced writing his first name

Day #6 (Make-up)
     Session A - 10 min.   Calender X
          Notes: ABC cards 25/26, Vowels
   
     Session B - 20 min
          Notes: Just drawing.  He drew a pretty wonderful shark.  Daddy accidentally threw it away : (

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Overall observations:

• ABC flashcards are getting boring and he keeps missing the same 1 letter every time.  I also need to separate them into uppercase and lowercase so that he does them separately.  Currently he says "Big Letter, Little Letter" on each one but I'm not sure how many he would recognize independently.  He *knows* his letters so he is losing focus on it.  Time to move on to a new challenge.
• He improved a lot very quickly on recognizing the written numbers.
• He is not interested in the art cards at all.  We spent maybe 2 minutes on this all week.  I need a new strategy for art stuff.  Maybe we try to recreate the pictures on our own?  I'll be brainstorming.
• This was a really hard week for me.  I dealt with a lot of other things that were not *school* and we still did most of what we were meant to do.  I feel I could do better with making things more fun for him.
• Lots of other things he did this week are not recorded because it was a lot of free play time.  Not sure how I capture this in logs because he is learning, it just isn't structured and often doesn't involve me in any way.  He spent almost 2 hours with play-dough one afternoon with friends, for example.

And now I lesson plan for next week!