Well, we made it through our week long trip to see "Grammy & G" without too much hassle but we failed to finish the second half of week #5. This is just fine though, as I had designated every 3rd week as review. We'll just catch up this week. We've been moving right along with the curriculum though so if we hadn't had the trip in the middle I might have only needed a day or so of catch up. This is pleasing, as it means he is doing very well with the lessons and also that our system is working well as a whole.
The big news is that he is actually READING now! Week #4 was the first week he had enough letters to begin making simple sentences and he seems to *get it*. We had a lot of fun thinking of anything to read that began with "I am" in front. I don't want to exaggerate his skills though; he is a long way from getting through even the simplest of books but I'm pretty excited to see him move forward with this and gain competency.
I am thinking that this means I should find or make a deck of sight words for him. This will help me also as I will likely memorize the deck and remember to have him read those words when we are having story time.
We'll review our art cards this week and we have 2 to recreate.
His letters of the week are finishing up the "N" pages and also the "R" sections. There is a rainbow craft for R that I am going to do with him.
We are up to the number 4 in "math". He can easily count 4 out of course but he is learning the symbol for the number and the written word as well. The books are also starting to include activities like pattern recognition, number lines, and measuring. I do think that the 1 number per week is too easy for him at least through 10 and probably more so we may accelerate there so we can move on to simple addition and subtraction.
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