Today was a good day
Today went very well and…very long. Several interruptions for me but I was able to keep Z busy, fortunately, and on track. We did three quizzes today on color words, number words and days of the week all online and he gor three perfect scores. I was so excited for him. Especially regarding the days of the week, because we’d only been reciting them daily and I had no idea he could actually read them and out of sequence. I guess my "soft" approach worked.
By "soft" approach I mean not excessive drilling on things that simply require memorization. Just a single daily recitation until it’s learned. We didn’t even use flash cards for the days. I only typed them and the months on a single sheet together and he’d glance at it sometimes.
I found a nice nine minute video on youtube on fire safety for kids. There a re a few others I’m sure we’ll watch before the week’s over for refresher and to not be too repetitive.
I had to ditch the coloring and activity book I was trying to use as part of the Noah’s Ark lessons. Thankfully there’s tons of stuff online and even more so that my mom got him this neat set of Hooked on Bible New and Old Testament. They each have materials for three major biblical stories including activity book, story book, cd w/ relevant songs and scripture cards. It also has a cute reward chart and stars. Since he’s not too fond of coloring, though he loves to paint, he surprisingly liked doing the trivia questions at the end of the story and got them all right. I think she found both sets at Marshall’s for less than half the retail price, thanx Mimi (Z’s name for my mom)!
Today’s Web Resource:
candohelperpage.com — many activities for language arts on this sight. this is the one we used for today’s three quizzes,though, for math: days of the week calendar activity #1, color words activity #2, number words activity #3
