Patience
Today was a rough day. My patience was quite short and drinking 3 cups of coffee did not help.
Zion does not want to color, which is odd. He gets tired of it very quickly but I think it’s because he expends so much energy coloring very hard and on the same spot for far too long. So, he he gets sore fingers and it takes him 10 minutes to color something that should only take maybe 30 seconds.
His handwriting and coloring need much improvement. Though these basic skills are not up to par, he is satisfactory or excellent in everything else.
He has picked up on the pattern of the 2’s addition family when going over the flash cards in sequential order. I’m now writing problems on the whiteboard at random and teaching him how to use the number line in the process.
His recognition of color words in Spanish and English is moving along very quickly and easily. The same goes for the alphabet in Spanish. I’m having him spell, in Spanish, the color words as we do exercises in his Spanish workbook. And, I found a neat online game of matching color words– the link is below.
Fortunately, several lessons seem to conveniently overlap this week like in Science and Social Studies we’re learning about fire safety and fire fighters. Colors are being learned in Spanish as we learn the color words in English. Also, there are exercises in our fire safety activity book that reinforce recognizing color words.
Hopefully, I will be more patient tomorrow…I pray.
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